The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-04-28
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE TO
SUCCESSFUL HANDLING OF MILK
cows on A COMMERCIAL BASIS
IN THE VALLEY.

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written for the Tonasket Commercial
club by Martin IversOn and publishe.
in the Wenatchee Daily World as q
part Of the advertising campaign that
Tonasket is carrying on to attract set.
tiers to this valley. Mr.. Martin was
| formerly manager of cooperative
creamery at Tonasket and no other
person in the district is so we'll equip.
ped with information and experience
to write with such knowledge of the
| facts and conditions relative to dairy.
ing in this valley.
Mr.. VERSIONS article follows:
THE Okanogan valley is one of the
! most favorably located sections in the
state of Washington for dairy pur-
poses. The climate is mild and even the
year around Feed and roughage can
be raised abundantly, especially al
falfa, one of the very best dairy feeds
Corn will yield 20 tons ensilage per
acre, and root crops grow abundantly
Dairy farming in conjunction with
raising hogs is one of the best paying
businesses for this section.
''The coast rancher dairys mostly
and raises hogs to take care Of his
| skim milk. He is at more of disad
vantage than the dairyman located in
| the Okanogan valley, because he must
buy his alfalfa in Eastern Washing
ton and ship it over the mountains
and not only must he pay large
freight rate but also commission
charges. The dairy farmer in his val
ley can feed his hay on the ground
and not have to pay freight on :, bulky
roughage, by shipping out his product
in concentrated form like in butter
fat he is far ahead.
The Okanogan valley dairy farmer
can get about the same price for his
fat that the coast farmer receives, and
possibly little better if he markets
his cream comparatively.
"Dairying is the best cash paving
business that farmer can engage N,
il good cows are kept and carefully
tended and bred up.
Dairy husbandry is intensive farm
ing.
"The average COW in the ron1sket
district produces $50 pounds of fat
per year. And 1000 pounds of milk is
the average yield with 3.75 test. This
COW will yield 500 pounds of 30 per
cent cream which at the average price
Of 40 cents per pound would net $4,000
She would also give $500 pounds of
skim milk which is easily worth 30
cents per 100 pounds. which womb
bring in $3.50. Her offspring is val
ued at $1,000 and the fertalizing ele
ments are worth $4,000. Thus it will
be seen that an average dairy COW will
produce in the neighborhood of $117 so
per year, $4,000 of which is cash.
High Yields in Buttcriat.
Now take look at the COW that is
the next step above the average of
which there are many in the Tonasket
district
She will produce 1900 pounds of
milk per month and milk for ten
months. making 10000 pounds a year.
with an average test of per cent She
will give 4S0 pounds of fat or 1900
pounds 80 per cent cream and 10,4O0
pounds skim milk. Using the same fig
ures as for the first COW with the ex-
ception of allowing the graded COW
$4,000 for her offspring it will be
found that she returns 1904 90, 1892. 90
Of this Is cash
These illustrations show conclusive
ly the dairy COW must be graded and
bred up to produce.
Land Still Cheap.
The land in this valley is not expen-
sive, and dairying can be made to pay
we'll. Land on the Isle of jersey usu-
ally rents for $4,000 to $4,000 per acre.
and is used only for the keeping Of
Jersey cows. In Hollond, land is worth
100000 to 100000 per acre and is
used almost exclusively for 1airy pur-
poses. So it will be seen that where
irrigated land can be purchased for
from $500 to $4,000 per acre in the
Tonasket-O roville district, dairyiny
can be made profitable. .
"The argument that dairying will be
overdone is thing of the past i'he
rapid growth of the pOpulatio, of our
country, tOgther with q constant in
crease of the percapita consumption
of dairy products makes il certain that
the dairy COW will in the future occupy
a more important position. Not only
does the dairy COW produce the milk
and its by-products that serve as one
Of the most important sources OF food
for the human race, but she solves the
greatest problem before American
agriculture today, namely, that Of soil
fertility.
Dalrying Maintains Soil Fertility.
ut Is not possible to maintain soil
fertility where grain is sold from the
farm year in and year out. Grain SELL
ing means selling fertility that has
been stored in the past ages and Is tcl-
lowed by impoverished soils and UNI
profitable agriculture. On the other
hand we find in localities where dairy
ing is the leading occupation. the soil
fertility has been vastly increased The
following examples give the fertilizing
constituents of a few of the most
common crops grown as compared to
dairy products.
Wheat at $1.00 per bushel is worth
1882 per ton, while it carries with it
elements of fertility worth 1859, AMI
corn at so cents per bushel is worth
$21.40 per ton while 1t removes fertil-
ity from the land worth $3.50.
Whereas a ton Of milk worth $40
per hundred pounds is worth $4S. 90
and it removes in fertalier value of
only $2.56.
"The comparison is still more strik-
ing when cream or butter is sold
Since butterfat contains only carbon
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