The La Jara chronicle., 1910-07-29
DAIRY PRODUCTS SHIPPED
INTO COLORADO IN 1909
COLORADO DAIRY INDUSTRY

600 milch cows in Colorado.
Many are selected from the range
and are poorly handled and
through the summer, pro-
ducing annually only from $50 to
$50 a cow. a number of well Sc
lected cows are kept in or near
towns, and are fed, producing an
nually from $50 to 800 "A COW.
The annual average production
is probably not over $40 cow,
or a total yearly production for
the state, from dairy products,
of $6, 100000. If these estimates
are correct, Colorado farmers are
supplying about fifty-six per
cent of the dairy products and
substitutes for dairy products
consumed in the state.
Butter and Cream.-A large
quantity of butter is shipped in
to Colorado from Kansas and Ne
braska, and the larger portion OF
the cream churned in the prlncl-
pal factories in Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo, is shipped in
from Kansas and Nebraska. One
concern in Denver churncd over
100000 pounds of butter in
1909, a large part of which came
from Nebraska. Some of the
largest dealers in dairy products
in the state estimate that in 1909
an average of over 10000 pounds
of butter came into Colorado, Ell
ther as butter or as cream that
was churned after arrival. But
ter made from Kansas and Ne
braska cream is used in the noun
tain sections of Colorado, 40
miles from Denver.
Cheese.-The quantity of
cheese made in Colorado is so
small that it is seldom found in
most of the towns of the state.
Most of the cheese consumed in
Colorado comes from New York.
Condensed Milk-Colorado S
condensed milk factory is locat-
ed at Fort Lupton. 1t caters to
high class trade, puts up a
good product, and pays the high
est price to the farmer for milk.
During 1908 there was IA gen
eral shortage of milk and cream
in most of the towns of the
state and city families We're
forced to use condensed milk.
Many thousand farm families al
so used condensed milk.
The use of condensed milk in
Colorado has been rapidly increas
ing for several years. Wholesale
houses report that in 1909 they
had demand for double the guam
tity of condensed milk sold, but
they could not secure it from the
manufacturers. More than the
usual amount was shipped into
the state from the east and sew
eral carloads came from the Pa
cific coast.
The fresh milk from 5000 av-
erage Colorado cows would have
been required to produce the con
densed milk that was shipped in
to Colorado in 1909, and the milk
from 5000 cows fully to supply
the demand in the state for this
food.
All sections of Colorado offer
favorable conditions for dairy
ing. The irrigated sections of
Colorado offer ideal conditions of
feed, climate, water and good
markets.
The mountain parks and valleys
of Colorado furnish almost the
same dairy conditions as the
mountain dairy districts of New
York, with the advantage of rich
er feeds and dry climate. These
parks and valleys cover large
area, single one, the San Luis
valley, having tillable area as
large as the state of Connect
cut.
Good, early cut alfalfa hay will
produce as much milk as an equal
weight of bran, one of the chief
eastern dairy feeds. Alfalfa hay
can be produced and fed to dairy
cows on the average Colorado
farm for from three to five dol
lars ton. Bran in eastern dairy