The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-12
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Racing along NJ the heels OF n city
that exceeded the speed limit In its
eypansion Tulsa county's dairying
i,ferests are holding their own. Left
hahind for n time by the swiftness
~ the evolution OF a village TO a city,
lie dairymen evoluted. too at rate
that would make dairymen OF
more settled country dizzy and now
the milk production In Tulsa coun-
~ Is little greater than the de-
mand.
II has not been so many years ago
,haf fence corner methods repre-
santed the sum total of the dairying
Industry of Tulsa county. Farmers
ovned a few cows, sometimes one,
t5ey and their wives brought them
nm from the pasture. backed them
mn I'M "a fence corner and drew forth
enough milk to supply their own
yrarts and perhaps sell little in the
,illace to cafes and restaurants.
bacteria were unknown, Tho only
,cIid animals they were bothered
about we're wolves and once I'm "A
vrbile "a hear maybe and other games
ieea exciting but most palatablc.
Ruf with increased population Of
Tu1sg came greater responsibility
and more knowledge and with the
advent OF bacteria came the inspec-
,0r and modern methods I'm dairying
,bot include coolers and things like
,L.t The would-be dairyman was
comparativcly new to the business,
ne wanted to learn and he was open
no suggestion. The clarifier was
recommended to him. He bought Il.
Thpn enter the cooler, and he bought
that wholesale. More experienced
men in the line of business might
have been more difficult OF pcrsua-
sion. but the very readiness of the
tulsa county farmer TO learn is re-
sponsiblc for the modern and thor
ough equipment that Charactcrizcs
the dairying business in this vicinity
today.
Facing Hcalthful. Career.
The dairying industry OF Tulsa
county has outgrown is infancy
and It was a prccocious infant. But
i hasn't grown UP yet. II is In It's
carly childhood. and j. $. Malone,
county agent, believes that Il has
every chance in the world for "A real
career Froom the sparse dairy
equipment of a comparatively few
wears ago there are now, roughly es-
timated, 5000 cows owned in the
county by commercial dairymen, or
S7OS cows in the entire county in
cluding the animals on those farms
where only one COW is kept. These
figures are taken from the last gov
ernmcnt census report. There are
epproximately $50 commercial
dairymcn in the county, an average
of 10 head to a dairyman. There
are approximately twelve thousand
head classed as beef cattle giving a
total of $4,000 cows for Tulsa
county.
With this equipment, the milk
production OF Tulsa county is second
10 that of but one county in the
state. that of Oklahoma county. Up
TO last year. there was a consider
able quantity OF milk shippe. in;
now influx of milk from foreign
territory is occasional and tempor-
ary, to meet emergency needs. the
policy OF local plants, the county
agent said in discussing the matter
the other day, is to get as mucn'
and all IL possible, OF their supply
from local dairymen. Just now. Ma
lone said, the county is caught up IN
production and at certain times or
the year the supply even exceeds the
demand. This condition obtains now
and will continue to do so unui
about July, he believes. Last sum-
mer the production averaged b,OOO
gallons n day. Because or It's pecu-