Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-04-13


These industries are as yet in their
infancy here and the future will see
wonderful development in these
lines, and vast armies of men will
be employed to do that work to the
exclusion of everything else. Prices
of dairy products will tend to go
upward rather than downward from
their present high standard. We
have good shipping facilities, so
there will be no trouble to get
market for what we have to sell.
At the present time half the ranch
ers on the tract are buying canned
milk to cream their coffee. The
producer is never 50 far from mar
ket as when he is a buyer.
Taking it for granted that there
will always be a market for our
dairy product, then the question at
once arises, what profit can we ex-
pect from the business. We will
take, for instance during the sum-
mer time. A good dairy COW will
return in butter fat fifteen dollars
per month at the present average
price for butter, and one acre Of
North Side tame pasture properly
cared for and maintained will keep
three cows for eight months in the
year. Three times fifteen dollars
makes forty-tive dollars per month
per acre For forty acres this
would mean eighteen hundred dol
lars per month. \ COW should
milk for eight months of the year
and eight times eighteen hundred
means fourteen thousand four hun
dred per year per forty acres. This
estimate seems preposterous; but
figure it backward or forward, or
any way you please, and it comes
out the same. And besides the
above amounts you have the by
products Of calves and skinned
milk, which will go far toward pay
ing the expenses of running the
plant. In the winter time we can
feed alfalfa hay, which is equiva-
lent to the best balance ration les
pecially the third cutting), and by
so doing realize fifteen or sixteen
dollars per ton for our hay. Al
fifteen dollars per ton for our hay
this allows us from sixty to seventy
five dollars an acre for our hay
land and the hay is raised witt
very little effort and all the time i,
enriching our land. These figure.
+ apply to good milk cows exclu
sively.
. We sell our hay for five dollar
per ton, ship it over to the Puge
Sound country and the farmer
buy it for twenty per ton, feed it t.
. their milk COWS and ship us bacl
5 the butter and they are building VI
b, a wonderfully rich communit,
s there through this business alone
e The o. 5. l.. gets a tremendous,
: rich haul pulling the hay over Their
d and then gets another pull at tn
Is pocket book for bringing back tn
IS butter. There is no reason VIII
o the North Side farmer cannot pu
3 that freight money in his ow
pocket.
d Modern machinery has done ava
T. with most of the drudgery connect
y ed with the business. We are sac
n ly in need of a line of work tha
l. will quickly put us on a self-suI
d porting basis. To put us on a soil
l. foundation, the stream of dolla-
Is which is now going out must /
lie turned from its present chann
lie and sent back to us. The develo]
De ment of this industry will mean Il
lie employment of labor, the inves
n. ment of capital in factories and IL
OF retaining of the unused land.
MS will put the farmer on a month
Id payroll and give him a market f
ne all his produce. 1t will give roo
ne for many lines Of employment
es the towns and will guarantee Il
ey payment of the grocery bill at Il
c. end of each month.