The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-06-11
DAIRYING
INDUSTRY
What ii Will Do in Selling
Hay and Making the
Farmer Independent.
Agricultural Expert From Washing
ton Says the Cow is Established
Medium Of Prosperity.

r. IL ftiiSiiS tultl VI tHc bureau
of western irrigation farming of the
government agricultural department
Is spending a few days at the expert
mental farm. Together with Mecsrg
F. B. Headley and c. ]. Heicey Mr..
Ferrell Is making study of the con-
d.tions within this project with a
view TO broadening the scope of the
government farm and make Il more
beneficial for the project farmers.
ITO visitor on the Truckee-Car-
son project, 1t is evident that many
of the farmers are beginning to
emerge from the first difficult stage
OF their pioneering. that is they have
succeeded In getting a good part Of
their farms into cultivation and are
producing crops. In most cases this
first stage has been most trying
one. II has exhausted the farmers
capital and used up all the money
that has been earned in outside en-
ployment. The question most press
Ing IS how best TO utilize the crops
being grown-particular the alfal-
ia crop--to the end of making a liv-
Ing, meeting the water payments and
getting the farms established upon a
profitable and permanent basis.
Judging from the experience up
on many of the longer established ir-
rlgation projects and In the old dis
trlcts In Idaho. Utah, and some other
states. there is no industry which
promises more than the dairy indus
try. In many OF the older districts
the farmers were slow TO appreciate
the possibilities OF dairying, but af-
ter years OF experimenting with 9TH
or lines. permanent success came on
ly when the dairy COW was brought
In and put TO work. There is every
reason TO believe that the Truckee-
Carson project Will ultimately ''find
itself" and come into its own
through the intelligent use of the
dairy COW. This project has the fin
est single COW feed In the world II
has a climate which makes expensive
dairy buildings unnecessary; IT has
good markets; IN fact 1t has every
thing necessary for the building up
of great dairy center when once
the cows are brought in and the
farmers learn to use them properly
There are indeed. already ind.ea-
tions that dairying will be profitable
here. One farmer sold over $500
worth of cream from IL cows last
year. an average of over 500 per
COW. He estimates that the COWS ate
s35 worth of alfalfa each, at the pre-
yailing market prices. and that his
calves skim milk and the milk his
family used very nearly paid for the
labor and other expenses SO that he
made profit of practically SEQ per
COW. This money which is coming
In every month of the year, and In
hard cash, Is something which the
local farmers need very badly. When
all the sales of the farm are made at
one period of the year. cash Is ordi-
narily a scarce article as many of the
farmers here know only too we'll.
THE COW holds out three valuable
promises: ready cash every month;
profitable labor at all seasons of the
year and supply of soil fertilizer
which is SO valuable that It's worth
cannot be estimated. Furthermore,
she furnishes a market for the plen-
tiful alfalfa that pays 100 per cent
to 400 per cent more than can be
obtained In any other way. A good
COW will pay from SIS to s25 per
ton for every ton of alfalfa that the
farmer sells to her. and she will
30 right on paying that price no mat
ter what the local market offers.
These facts deserve careful consid-
Grafton by every farmer and every
business man who wishes to become
prosperous and who mas the welfare
Of the Truckee-C Carson project at
heart. These facts are of no less
concern to the merchant than to the
f@rmer, for the mon who sells goods
TO the farmers, Is inevitably depen-