The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-21
WASHINGTON
SHOULD LEAD
Sunnyside Editor Sets Forth
Possibilities of Dairy
Industry

For everal months A. S. Hillyer,
publisher of the Sunnyside Sun, has
been devoting columns of space to the
promotion of the dairy industry not
only around Sunnyside but throughout
theientire Yakima Valley. He believes
Washington should be the leading
dairy state in the nation. He says:
eve can and should equal Mimi
esota's record of production, which
last year was It's million pounds.
NV beliefs for these statements are
based on the following reasons:
washington is the only state that
might produce dairy cattle feed at a
lower cost than Kansas, Nebraska,
or other states.
clarifying occupies the farmers
time when he has no irrigation wa
ter.to worry about, or in other words
the, winter months. 1t offers sure and
handsome profits for the whole year.
'TThe dairy market is sure, steady,
and practically free from Cutting,
drops from crop failures or season
al marketing troubles. | have been
told that there is limit to the in
crease of dairying. l don't think it
is practical to talk about such a limit.
We all know that there is a possible
limit to the consumption demand
for dairy products. But it is far
from thing near at hand, and even
If it were to come soon, it would be
merely a case of the survival of the
fittest.
washington, particularly the Yak
ina valley, would be the fittest. We
can produce the feed, and better feed
for dairy cattle, here in this state,
more cheaply than it can be produced
in any other state in the country
and if this survival of the fittest
should come, Washington could drive
all the other states out of business
and still make profit.
"Using our alfalfa, and silos to
make the most of corn crops, there |
is no limit to the ideal feed that may |
be produced here cheaply. We can
make butterfat here in the Yakima
Valley from 8 to 10 cents pound |
cheaper than they can make it in the |
dairy districts of New England.
'The consumption of milk and
dairy products is growing every year.
In the last four years the per capita
consumption Of butter in this coun-
try rose from Ia to IL pounds. That
makes total of approximately 400
million additional pounds of butter.
/ think that the per capita consump-
ton should be "a pounds, not II,
and that it will be some day before
long,
''The consumption of milk has just
doubled, rising from 20 to 40 gallons
per year. This is due largely to the
campaigns, that have been carried
on by different states in the schools,
to urge children to drink more milk.
"At the present time the farmers
can grind their wheat, and I am told
there is lot in the Yakima Valley
unsold, and feed it to the cows and
receive $1.50 bushel for it. On the
market the farmer gets 60 or 80
cents, or even less, for it.
do you know that a dairy COW
can make 10 times as much human
food out of the same amount of cat
tie feed, that steer can? A given
of feed, fed to the cow and
che steer, will result in ten times
The food value in dairy products from
The COW, as in meat from the steer,
according to experts.
"The six leading dairy states and
their production are given as follows:
Minnesota -..---.--...- 170,O00,000 lbs.
Wisconsin -........---.-. 142,000,000 lbs.