The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
Increase in Stock Cattle.

Utah is certain to become a great
dairying state. In the great mining
region of which this is the center, there
is market for her products for many
years to come. There is abundance OF
suitable feed. the climate is the very
best for cattle raising, and the prices
which dairy products command in her
nearby markets would gladden. the
heart of an eastern farmer. Yet. say
experts. the dairying business in the
state is but i'm the development stage.
II is estimated that there is nearly
soc. 900 invested in the industry in the
state one way or another. There are
fifty-one creameries. of which fourteen
are engaged in the manufacture of
cheese as well as butter. two condens-
aries and 175 dairying establishments
in the state which handle dairy prod
ucts The state bureau of statistics es-
timated that there is invested in each
creamery about $4,000, which would
give total of 1867 800 for all of them.
Better Dairy Cattle.
The government experts for the past
few years have been engaged in a cam
paign which has for its object the in
ducing of the farmers TO raise high
grade dairy stock. The cattle of Utah
at present contain a high percentage
of beef blood, and a prejudice has ex-
listed in the past against the raising of
high grade dairy stock on the assump-
ton that they do not endure the open
range conditions as well as the beef
cattle. 1t is this prejudice that the ex-
perts are endeavoring to combat.
During the past two years there have
been notable additions to the high
grade dairy breeds OF the state. The
Agricultural college has done much in
ton. 49,
selves have taken a greater interest
The state fairs during the year have
shown higher percentage Of the best
dairy breeds, such as Holsteins. AYR
shires. Guernseys and Jerseys These
are the breeds particularly recon-
mended
There are s1,164 milch COWS in the
state, but many, indeed, most of these
are of inferior breed. In 1907 the esti
mated output of dairy products was
sZ'OoO,oOO. In 1908 it is estimated to
nave been s500,00o more. With better
grades of cattle, the cost of feed and
care would be no greater and the ont
put could be doubled, says the experts.
Utah, Home of Cow Feed.
Professor T. E. Woodward OF the Ag
ricultural college gives as the greatest
reason why Utah is destined to become
dairy state par excellence. the fact
mat the state is the home and natural
habitat OF the best COW feed on earth
-alraifa. While the eastern COW is
Iorced to eat cornstalks and all sorts
OF fodder, much of which the farmer
must buy at a high price, the Utah
farmer can be entirely independent of
the ieed merchant Many eastern farm
ers, he says, pay SIS to 500 TO feed their
cows and sell the products for less
IMAM the Utah farmer obtains. He
says further: with the best markets
ana the greatest of COW feeds growing
IN the rankest profusion at our verv
doors, all that is needed to make Utah
conspicuous as a dairy state is more
and better COWS. We need ,nora coy.,s
whose sole business on earth is to rro1
duce milk and butter fat; cows that
VIII produce 800 pounds instead Of fsn
POUNDS OF butter fat per year. cows
that will return 81 for every q Of ICED
consumed. When we look unon a COW
OF this kind as an ideal and when we
learn now TO handle and feed her in A
manner which becomes the queen of tha
livestock kingdom, then will Utah as
sumo tne place Ii deserves; then will
the Justly famous Wisconsin and the
proud New York be reIegated to the
land of has beens-' The handwriting
on the wall is very plain 1t reads a.
follows; The irrigated portion of Utah
is destined to become the greatest dairy
section on EARTH -
Good College Work.
II is to this end that the exDerts Al
the Agricultural college have beer
workins-the improvement Of the herds
before anything else The past wear
they consider the most successful in
this respect Utah has vet had. MANY
farmers have been induced to eliminate
INFERIOR cattle and purchase dairv
breeds for their herds. A still greater
Improvement vii lbe shown in the COM
ing year There is now a good demand