Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-27
DAIRY BUSINESS
 IN G|LA VALLEY
Enterprise Affords Best Mar ketS For Alfalfa-StatisticS
 Prove Statement.
lSanord Gnardian.l

At the last meeting or the farnl- CTS and Business Mems association, several valuable reports were read which gave statistics showing that hay fed to dairy cows returned n val ue in butter fat of rom sl5 to <2l per ton.
 This showing should open the eyes of our valley farmers and encourage them to go into the dairy business on a large scale. The nearby markets consume over 4eO0 pounds of butter daily. which could all be produced in the Gila valley.
 The reports which follow here are interesting and instructive:
 George L. Freestone made the fol- loging report:
 Number of CONS --.-.-..--.-.=.....,.------- v Number of tons hay fed .--.--.. a6 Number of acres in pasture ....- ! Est. hay crop on pasture. tons 25 No pounds butter fat sold .-..s....-i.4S0 Value of butter fat .--...sI, ,27S.z5 Val hogs & calves rsd... 4i5.e0
 Total val. of products s1. 1.69275
 Mir Freestone estimated that the skinned milk paid him well for geed- ing. milking and delivering cream. leaving hN creamery sales for hay feed.
 The showing made by MT. Free stone is very encouraging. He practi- cally realized S2i per ton for his hay in stack. equal to s23.50 per ton, f. O. b. Safford.
 s. E. Allen reported the results ob. tained from eight cows for thirteen months. as follows.
 Creamery returns ...--..--.----s6 s6o0.00 Value of calves -------.--.-..-- 255.Ufi Value of pigs .s.-----------..--..--..--- 25-00
 Mr. Allen stated that in his opinion hay fed to good dairy cows netted s21 per ton in stack. L. F. Mattice of Pima reported ten cows selected from range stock for ten months. The returns from cream cray and family consumption were s52g. He pastured l.. acres and fed 90 tons of second class hay. which he offered 10 put on the cars at $7 per ton. which was worth s4.50, per ton In stack.
 Mir Mattice agreed with Mir. Free stone and Mir Allen that with select ed cattle hay can be made to net s2i per ton in stack. - l William Ellsworth made detailed statement of his herd of COWS, hand led by Alvin Warner. He stated that he had made test of his best COW while she was eating one ton of hay. with the following result: Time fed two months and one day; butter fat sold. $26.
 In regard to yalue received for hay ] fed to dairy cows. Mr. Ellsworth stated that it would net sl5 per ton , in stack
 X few statistics ir regard to the amount Of butter oonumed in Globe, Morenci. Clifton and Metcalf, she big mining camps. will be interesting Globe uses l560 pounds daily. Noren- ci. Clifton and Metcalf. about 2500 pounds, or total Of 4000 pounds of ! butter. estimated for all places. Of l this entire amount Stafford furnishes 25O pounds daily. The balance need ed must come from outside sources, as far east as Kansas City. | Hundreds of tons of hay have been shipped from the valley this season, II for which the farmer got an average
 of $7 per ton baled. f. O. D.. or net price per ton in stack of s4.50 per ton.
 From these figures it would seem that there is more money in hay fJr the farmer if he wenl into the dairy business. Al the p-se1t time ait nC receives for his hay is Si.5O per ton on the other hand his hay fed tc dairy cows would yI"ld hJm from SI5 to S2l per ton
 The Gila valley farmers ship 2i0o Hears of hay per annum. Suppose our { Farmers reserved CEe-third of this hay for dairy cows, the remaining two thirds would bring as much as what they now realize on inc full crop
 shipped
 In doing this ine farmers wOuld bg able to furnish a greater supply of :. butter for the hear1v markets. which
 vouId take every ycuiid of butter that jho dairics could produce .I The Gila valley affords great op portnnity for the Calry farmer. The marbli k already established and tho | price obtained for -utter and othel dairy prOducts gives such good prof il. trat rEcrc is 15 doubt that tn' ldair} business can ] made d linan lcial sdccoss.
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