The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-08
ARTICLE
ON DAIRYING

There Is no business which returns
more for the capital and work In
vested, than dalrying, There is nc
portion OF the United states NOR,
fayorablby situated for the success
ful and profitable carrying on oil
dairylng than the vast Panhandle
country. with its cheap grazing lands
and cheap feed A move Is on foot
to give Amarillo creamery The
business OF dllrylng should be en-
couraged In the Panhandle, and with
that end In view. the Daily Panhan.
die reproduces the following article,
from the Texas stockman-Journal,
handed TO the editor by Mr.. n, B.
sanborn:
4 In former years belief was prev
alent that successful dairying In
America must he restricted to a mar
row geographical limit, constituting
a dairy belt" lying between the
fortIeth and forty-fIfth parallels OF
latitude and extending from the At
lantic Ia, the Missouri river, but that
theory has been exploded for II is a
noted fact that the dairy COW has
been considered the mortgage litter
In Kansas, Nebraska and other west
orn states for many years,
Dairy products we're among the
first exports from this country, the
industry having started In the colo.
MES. II has gradually worked It's
way west keeping to the northern
states where the food stuffs and cli-
mate conditions Nere the most IA
yorable to It's development. on look
Ing over the conditions In Colorado
which tend to foster the develop
ment OF the industry we are com.
PEELED to believe that dairying on
larger scale than that now practised
would flourish In this state. Along
the foot mills and in the mountain
valley we have the cool evenings, the
rich pasture grass clear and pure
water and an ideal climate, all OF
which are. conducive to good milk
and TO Its keeping qualities. The
winters are not SO severe as they are
in the northern states and are OF
shorter duration.
It has been demonstrated by the
Wisconsin experiment station that
there is no hay feed that will pro-
iuce as much milk, pound FOR pound
rs alfalfa when fed to dairy stock
md we boast that there Is no coun-
ny that can EXCEL this state in her
llfalfa crop.
And then as to-. the question OF tu-
'erculosls cattle Our climate has
he same tendency to check the dis
ase In bovine life that It does in
he human. Out OF number OF
.erds tested by state Dairy Commits
Toner Bishop, the average per cent
I cattle found to be affected With
he disease Is about 4 per cent. while
n the east II Is much higher, be-
ng about rs per cent, And yet IL
reater care and attention was paid
D the cleanliness and ventilation of
ow barns there would be a still
mailer per cent affected. The best
Innate on earth could not keep
ow from having the tuberculosis II
he Is compelled to lilo down in the
18th and litter of the corral and UNI
rejected from other stock suffer
lg with the disease.
Taking into consideration the dali
: proposition from the farmers
.andpoint, It Is simply a means of
larketing his hay and grain, The
'od stuffs are given to the COW at
leir market value and she converts
lem into new substance which is
Did at profit or loss, depending up
a the individual ability OF the COW
According to an investigation VI
ne hundred creamery patrons acon-
lcted by Hoard's Dairyman OF Wis
,nsin, 1t was shown that one pat
IN received $2.30 for every dol
RS worth of feed consumed by