Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

tiiitt UT Aoui Ol ing the winter season, when the east ern farmer is filling his COWS up on s20 a ton bran and shorts and getting a correspondingly reduced production of milk on account of an exclusive dry feed.
 BARNS.
 No expensive barns and watering devices are required. A shed with roof only Is advisable to furnish shade in the summer and under which the cows may be milked during a rain storm.
 Owing to being out of doors the year around and the clear dry air, bovine tuberculosis is practically unknown
 How different where the dairy herd is housed up for six months every year in most cases in very poorly ventilated barns with no direct sunshine on them for days at a time. The climate alone requiring no barns and producing the maximum of healthfulness is doubtless sufficient in many cases for the dairy men to live in the Salt River valley.
 CARE OF MILK.
 With an average per centage possi- ble sunshine of over 80, the care and handling of milk is greatly facilitated because of a lesser degree of con tamination from deletrious bacteria, the bug bear of the eastern dairyman. Not that milk does not need constant and cleanly care. but one will not find the bacteria that cause souring and decomposition in such numbers as are naturally expected in a warm climate, Ia ,,,;lI ;e fnr than is generally supposed.
 WINTER DAlRYlNG BEST.
 Like the eastern and central states the best time for dairying is during the fall and winter months and it is wondered why such conditions do not more generally prevail. Where the cows must all be housed and milked at temperatures lowering around the freezing point there is some excuse in having them freshen in the spring. But where the climate is such that not more than a dozen milkings during the winter will have to be performed with the thermometer below forty, and out doors at that. with fifty per cent high CT prices for butter, it is almost incon- ceivable that there are not more cows Di Ch Ab litohth AiA bht AnAA eLAN eA-C yearly production of milk products better equalized.
 There is room for a large number of good. intelligent dafryman in the Salt River valley and for the fellow who will follow winter dairying the profits will be from one-fifth to one-third greater.
 CONCLUDING POINTERS
 Arizona will consume four times as much butter and cheese as is now produced in the territory without any reduction in price.
 The average price per pound of but terfat received by the farmers in 1907 was 24 cents.
 The average production of butter per cow Is 100 per cent higher than the average for the United States.
 Cows can be pastured the year around and with alfalfa hay to supple ment the winter pasture for three months no grain is required whatever.
 Dairy farms can be purchased for from $75 to $50 per acre with per feet water right. The annual cost for water for irrigating is about s1.50 per acre
 No expensive barns or watering de- vices required. The cows are better off without them.
 Bovine tuberculosis is practically unknown in the Salt River valley.
 All the privileges of the east, north, south or west in the way of churches. schools, newspapers. mails and teie- phones are found in the Salt River valley.