White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-02-22
D A l r Y


TIME cooperative cheese factory al
i Kuna, Idaho, is receiving be
tween $4,000 and 1900 pounds OF
milk daily, from which is made near
ly 1900 pounds of cheese. This is
claimed to he the largest output OF
.eese from any one factory in the
tate.
rhe r2pid growth of dairying oil
he Hawaiian Islands is noted by Tho
crea ed demand for dairy COWS fel
ship est to the islands, Recently
Charles l.u, as Of Honolulu spent sew
'r.tl Hee!,s ON this coast looking III
tile 10 be sent across Amons
i purchases We're Is head of high
,raie Guernseys from Riverbank
Farm, Oregon.
a total OF SO men in Washington
md Oregon took the forest ranger
examination this fall. OF this total
- were Washington men Thos,
1uccessful in passing the examina
eiun are offered vacancies which ma,
occur on the % national forests in
the Pacific Northwest. All positions
IN the forest service are under civil
service.
Another 40pound record has re
Gently been announced by Superin
tendent Gardner, when the junior
4-year-old Pietertje Ormsby Mercedes
Frisby completed seven-day run
during which time she produced H.14
pounds of butter from $685. pounds
Of milk. She was sired by Pietertje
Ormsby Mercedes Della, and is
owned and record made by w. 4
Rawleigh, Freeport, III.
The Gooding Grange Cream Asso
citation Of 1 d a h o handled 1880
pounds of butterfat during the month
Of November, returning to the pro
ducers an average OF "A cents .
pound for the month. This is gain
Of 6,377 pounds over the correspond
ing month of last year and an in
crease in price of 21a cents per
pound.
Ogden, Utah, has a new milk or.
dinance that goes into effect on May
l, requiring all milk sold in that city
Of ntoH ba nc uta
oeption of that sold by dairymen
milking their own COWS. Dairymen
who distribute the milk produced by
their own cows are exempt from pas
teurining.
Tho Marion Creamery, Gooding,
Idaho. bought 447,522 pounds of but
terfat from Its patrons during the
year. ending October 81. 1923. For
this fat the creamery returned Its
patrons an average Of Az cents a
pound, distributing In the ~ months
$1S8,351. The creamery is consid-
cred the "single largest factor" in
furnishing cash returns to the farm
erS OF the district
The Forks Creamery was com
pletely destroyed by fire in the early
morning of December 49, With IL
went 600 pounds Of butter and the
record books of the association. The
building and equipment was covered
with $4,000 insurance. 1t is reported
that the creamery will be rebuilt al
once, as through 1t practically all the
cream from the west end of Clallam
County was handled.
J. H. Kraft, prominent Chicago
cheese manufacturer and distributor
has recently been looking over the
possibilities of that state and pre-
diets that In time Idaho will be one
Of the three leading dairy states OF
this country. The Kraft company is
putting in chain Of cheese factories
in Idaho, and expects to maintain dis
tributing headquarters at Pocateiio
On November /, the Snohomlsf
County Dairymen's Association re
tired $4,000 of Its bonded indebted
ness. The money used for this pur
pose was the accumulation Of thu
past six months of the Is cents pc
hundred on all milk delivered b.
members into a sinking fund created
for the purpose. At this rate thu
dairymen will soon own their owl
plant free from all indebtedness, an
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