The Parker post., 1912-08-31
BIG PROFITS
in DAIRYING
BLYTHE CREAMERY TO BE OP-
GRATED SOON AND RANCHERS
WILL HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO
MAKE SOME GOOD PROFITS.

at Blythe dairying seems likely to
ing industries of the Palo Verde val
ley. Dairymen i'm the Imperial val
ley of California and the Salt River
valley i'm Arizona have learned that
the feed1prodllcimg climate of the
southwest and the ready market ON
the coast make ideal conditions for
the dairyman.
That the Palo Verde valley will
soon take advantage of the abrmd
ance of feed and excellent market
and become one of the greatest dairy
districts i'm California cannot be
questioned The fact that prohibitive
freight rates make the shipping of
alfalfa impossible, makes the growth
of the dairy business in this valley
all the more essential.
With the completion of the Blythe
Jc road and the low freight rate and
quick service that is to follow, the
local farmer can readily turn his all
falfa into butter-fat and put it ON
the market at big margin on profit.
The experiences of Salt River and
Colorado river valley farmers prove
beyond question that this is essen
tially a dairy country. Writing to
prominent periodical one rancher
says:
"My S0-acre ranch is located about
seven miles west of Phoenix. I havs
been i'm the dairy business many
years. In 1907 I kept an accurate ac-
count of my herd of % COWS; they
averaged over 10000 pounds of milk
per month and earned over $40 per
month each, Through the whole year.
believe an average grade COW will
earn from seven to eight dollars per
month if properly cared for. Stock
cattle being worth so much here,
have always made big profit from
the annual increase in my herd. Last
year 1 sold forty head for beef and
This summer I sold about $4,000 worth
of milch COWS and beef cattle. | still
have about forty head of stock ON
the place The first few years / was
i'm the valley I only had forty acres
and during that period made about
$4,000 year from my dairy, stock
cattle and hogs. I usually carry as
many hogs ON the ranch as | have
the hogs
Another farmer writes: 81 usual
ly milk about 20 COWS and my ranch
has paid me from $4,000 to $4,000
year. My creamery checks rum from
$1,S0O to $4,000 every twelve months.
feed the sl1immilk to hogs and net
about 5000 yearly that way. I also
sell enough young stock and beef
from the herds increase ito amount
to about $3.50 per year. Besides feed
ing my CATTLE, | have had from 25
to 40 tons of alfalfa to sell each sea-
son which | have sold at from Sc ito
SIG a ton. I have occasionally leas-
ed some grain land and this year |
had 440 acres of wheat which thre9Sh-
ed eighteen sacks to the acre, aver
age weight 1876 pounds to the sack.
yXUhn 6nntS a.
pound l also had five acres of oats
which threshed $50 sacks of 100 lbs.
each This wheat was sown indie
cember and cut i'm May The oats
were sown i'm October and cut i'm
May"
One more farmer writes: eve
kept eight milch COWS last winter
milking seven i'm December and Janll-
airy and eight i'm February, March and
April. Our creamery checks for
those months ran as follows. De-
cember $75, january $50, March $75,
and April $40. We got a good price
for butterfat, averaging about 35c.
1--WE have the record of one Jer-
sey COW, which was fed entirely ON
pasture and alfalfa hay, which made
1912 lbs of butterfat in seven days.
While this record lis not nearly UP Ito
some of the high-fed COWS i'm the
east, still it lis exceedingly good for
COW On the cheap feed that isfur-
nished i'm such abundance in this val
ley.
"a feature of the dairy business in
the Salt River valley is that We do
not have to erect such eXpenive
BARNS for our COWS. The climate is
such that all that lis requiredis a
good place to milk in, and a great
many of the dairies i'm the valley do
not have this protection; i'm fact,
nearly all the dairymen here do their
milking Jim open comals.
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