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Show John A. Israelsen JOHN A. ISRAELSE Ph. f.O.Box 208 HYRUM, VOLUME 1, NO. 15. STAGE $2.00 THE YEAR. HYRUM, CACHE COUNTY, yTAH. FRH)AY, MAY 7, 1926. MI SET F Tells of Value in Keeping Records of Animals Dairy Business is Great Asset to Farm Communities of U. S. Cow-Test- er Products Given Good Price When Markets Offer Low Figure for Farm Crops Records Production Greatly Increased by Proper Feed and Care of Animals Average of all Dairy Milk Show Increase in Hyrums (By H. P. Anderson) The average person will probably be surprised to learn what the dairy industry of Hyrum is contributing to the prosperity of our good corammun-itWe have been in the habit of thinking only in terms of sugar beets y. Output ter fat, less than our Breeds on Incline own prices. The dairymen of Hyrum used back form the condenser company 26,549 pounds of butter, or an average of 106 pounds per dairyman, and 8,107 pounds of cheese, or an average of 31 pounds. The butter was purchased back at an average of 3c per pound and wheat when we have looked toless than we received. ward financial returns in the agri Now then, what future of no have These cultural business. The national doubt done much to fill the needs of the dairy business ? cash demands at the end of the year, situation is very encouraging; govthe dairy but the real cash producer must be ernment reports is in a poindustry meek strong in the cow, dairy recognized of the state that unpretentiously daily does her task of filling the milk pail without a grumble or a murmur. She works a twenty four hour day and a three hundred and sixty-fiv- e day year. During the years immediately following the war, when banks were crashing, business men going bankrupt, grain and hay farmers moving from their farms, livestock men giving away their beef animals, the smiled contentedly and dairyman monthly received his milk check, paid his bills and continued to exist. Everywhere throughout the United States where dairying had become the major agricultural industry no panics or were felt. . financial .reverses who The' 'jSnancial institutions of our country have always seen in dairying a sound business which they have never hesitated to support by financial aid and loans to the dairyman to buy mere dairy- - cows or improve his farm. At this point we should not overlook the splendid support that our own local bank, through its officers, have redered to the dairyman of this community in helping him to finance his business, and in helping to put over community programs that have been for the benefit of the dairy industry. Also we have felt that the other part of our industry, which has the important part of marketing our products should be appreciated for what it is doing for us, namely the Sego Milk Products Company. We must realize that the success of this part of the dairy business is dependent largely upon us as' the producers of the product, not separate institutions, but one organization. We must show our interest in what they are doing and we will likewise receive an interest and suport from them. The kind and amount of the product which we deliver to them determines how well they can do their job, and in turn the financial returns which will come relatively is a reduced More Interest in Dairy Industry Among the Farmers of Hyrum Prizes to be Given for Winning Animals Professor Ikeler of the U. A. C. to Act as Judge Program to Begin at 1:30 by Concert Band Stock at Oclock by High Exhibit to year that h-- lets it Cow-Testi- It is indeed a very encouraging event for the dairymen of Hyrum and South Cache to see the stage all set for our first annual livestock show. For many years past we have visited the Salt Lake, Ogden, Cache County and Richmond shows and have admired the splendid exhibits. Only in recent years have we felt that we could enter our pure-bre- d animals along side of experienced breeders and exhibitors. We have had some disappointments and they We have have been valuable to us. then realized there was a reason for not bringing home the bacon and have set but to find that reason. We have given our animals better atten- clipping been have learned and awarded an- until we learned just what the judged based his decision on. as some may It isnt chance or luck suppose, con- but it is forming to certain rules. We have brought back not only blue ribbons but grand champion honors in both Holstein and Jersey well-establish- ed breeds. Only a small percentage of our dairymen have taken advantage of exhibiting because of expense and time required away from home. Tomorrow we shall stage our first than five cows. Dairy Show. The mayor has lent his .The production for 1925 exceeded encouragement, committees have the 1924 production by over one mill- worked hard and our success will deion pounds or $34,000., indicating a pend on the interest taken by all citisplendid condition in the dairy busi- zens in the exhibits. ness of Hyrum. It shows that our Lets give it our loyal support and ormers have confidence' in the year by year improve until we can dairy business to the extent that they are establish a real worthwhile annual increasing their herds and also in- event. creasing production by better methods. C. II. Ralph, manager of the Sego May was the high month of Ruction for 1925, with a production Milk Products Co., returned home the 977,290 pounds. June was the high latter part of last week from Ontario, month of 1924, with 844,054 pounds. Canada, to which place he had been Ihe average price paid to the dairy- called by the death of his father. man of Hyrum was 51 cents, which is While away Mr. Ralph spent some approximately six cents above New time visiting with a brother in De,,ora and Chicago butter prices for troit, who is employed in the Ford the same period. factory. He was shown through a In addition to the milk number of places of interest in the handling trom the local dairyman, 249,913 lbs Michigan capitol, one of them being ccw.one of the Ford groceries, a place ,.t butter, were churned from n rora outsicle points. Thisconducted the employees of the for cream was purchased at a price of jitney magnate. He also . visited a approximately 5 cents per pound but 20th century laundry. j Records .Show First Annual Livestock Show Aims to Create sition. There number School Given of dairy cows on farms amounting to 233,000 cows. There are 9 per cent 2 Commence or 373,000 less dairy heifers. Feed prices are low, and with consumption of dairy products increasing at the rate of 5 per cent per why sohuld dairymen not be encouraged ? Prices Everything is in readiness for the ifested among the Richmond on dairy animals are in the ascenevent tomorrow which will mark big dency and the demand for good dairy The farmers of the community now the first annual Holstein Day to be should animals cannot be filled. have a cause to rejoice beWhat is needed in Hyrum to put held in Hyrum. The eyes of the cause of the recent million dollar us in a stronger position is larger state have been turned in this direc- rain and there is no better way to herds. We are milking too few cows to event take celebrate the than part made the the to at due tion showing per dairy man. The feed situation hr the livestock show which promises from the animals exhibits various by can be improved by growing more tq be one of the special features in feed for our dairy cows. Our pas- herds of this city. th,e program for the years activities tures should be improved; we have It is evident that there are some irf Hyrum. too many pastures The program of the day will begin require acres local stock that has not been to the cow. These should be plowed good to compete in any contests at 1:30 p.m., with a band concert givshipped up, drained and reseeded into better because their owners felt that the ef- en by the South Cache high school varieties. them to .and ' n rj, j.inder the direction ,of N. W. fort of In conclusion, have faith in from thetransporting 'will com- fair grounds "'as not re- Tjis,tiansen. Th? our business by putting into our warded at 2 oclock. In tne evening a ieace by the prizes offered. brains and brawn. Improve our pracThose who realize the possibilities social will be given in the Second tices by better and more up to date in the dairy industry are endeavor- ward amusement hall for the memmethods. Improve our dairy barns, and the the farmers in breed- bers of the to interest ing use modern equipment. Improve our ing good animals for they have been Breeders association. dairy herds by belonging to the cow- converted that the best pays the best There will also be a big Holiday Dance in the Cinderella Hall in the testing association and the breeders dividends. association. Have enthusiasm for Professor of the U. A. C., evening. our work and help and encourage our will act as Ikeler,of the contest. The judge boys to become better dairymen than committee in charge of the exhibit NOTICE we are at the present time. I have placed a trailer on my truck has worked diligently to secure prizes for the winners and to create an in- and am prepared to transport animals terest in the show. Although Hol- any place at any time. Will buy or stein Day in Hyrum will not rival trade any kind of livestock. Elmer that of Black and White Day still it L. Eliason, Tel 164-is not impossible in years to come House and lot for sale or rent See to build up as much enthusiasm about By JOHN A. ISRAELSEN. the Hyrum exhibit as has been man Louis P. Maughan. tf to all. They accept all we deliver whether it is a large amount or small. If our production in any one month is double the previous it is accepted, and if the market cannot handle it they warehouse it until it can be moved and we receive our returns just the same. The spirit of tion, better feeding, must maintain between us as dairy- blankets and have not men and the organizations which mar- the blue ribbon, but ket our product if we are to achieve other valuable lesson greatest amount of success. It is interesting to note the statistics of our dairy busines during the -- year 1925. There were approximately 250 dairymen delivering milk to our local receiving plant. The toal amount of milk delivered was 9,455,102 pounds, which had a value of $176,078.52, an average per dairyman of 37,820 lbs., with a value of approximately $756.40 Lan average monthly income of ?63.00. While this does not appear a very large sum yet the average number of cows per dairyman is less UTAH Hyrums First Dairy Venture is Briefly Reviewed by Olsen By DALTON M. REID to produce one thousand pounds of It will stimulate better care and fat in one year. Such marked progress indicates feeding, thereby giving a above everything else success in the production. development of the dairy cow. It is It weeds out the a recognized fact that a cows abilagain increasing the production and ity to produce is not limitlessly lays the foundation for an improved Colantha fourths Johanna estabherd. lished an almost unbelievable yearly his It tells the man that studies record and while doing so she also record just what his cows are doing made, new worlds records in every each month, and if he will watch the class from one day to one year. She record it will show him the individ is said to be the only cow who enjoys redistinction. Her seven-da- y uality of each cow, and just how far this cord was the first to be surpassed he can go in feeding. and it was ten years before her reSeven years ago the production in cord was broken. Missouri associations In the eighteen years that have was 229.7 pounds of fat and 5,184 passed between this first record and pounds of milk per cow. In ' 1925 the one hundredth, the peak producthe average was 273.6 pounds of fat tion for the breed has moved upward and 6,672 pounds of milk. The re- 350.97 pounds. The high yearly return per $1.00 feed cost in 1918 was cord is given in Vol. 36 of the Blue S2.17. Now it is $3.09, an increase of Book as 1,349.31 pounds of fat. This $76.46 per cow, or $1,116.10 per farm. is an increase of nearly 35 per cent By careful study of the records it over the first record that could claim is possible to increase the production a place in the 1,000 pound class. of a cow from 7,000 pounds to that of The progress that has been made 20,000 pounds of milk per year. Sev- in this period is healthy and sane. eral have been found to move up It has been steady growth but it is from 8,000 to over 13,000 pounds the kind that shows up building of each. These were the same cows in all rather than suspicious stimulation the same barn with different feed of individuals. The average of all and care. They were not spectacular dairy breeds has moved very cases although their. twork bordered decidedly in the same upward period. were an after that upon they given feed Thjs is all due to the And viat was done jn and iare of the animals, testing, opportunity. with a lot this Case may be donfe in many others of thought on the breeding of them, by a study of each cows record and as well as the work of the show ring. by giving her the feed and care that What is a cow testing association she requires in doing the increased worth to a community? People use work. different methods in measuring the In 1908 the Holstein cow, Colantha value of the work. In some communiFourths Johanna startled the dairy ties the members are looking for testworld by producing 998 pounds of ers with better of leaderbutterfat from 25,992 pounds of milk ship and with a qualities more broad educain 363 days. This was so unusual a tion than they have required in the record that many said it could not be past. They seem willing to pay for No cow could yield in that additional services aside done. from a BabIt was impossible, and sim- cock test, record of fat and feed, and way. ilar incredulous acknowledgements. advice on feeding and management Today thousand pound records are of the herd. accepted as a matter of fact. Cow testing association work puts On January 7, 1926, official andairy farming on a business basis nouncement was made of the one and points the way to better homes hundredth cow of the Holstein breed and happiness on dairy farms. er cow-testi- H. I. A. FIEID DAY TO COMMITTEE APP0IN1I HELD HEM SATURDAY Early Residents of Hyrum Used to Sent Cows Epidemic at Wellsville Plans Are Made to BeUp Blacksmith Fork Canyon to DairyHalts Plans for Acgin Work on Public " Payment Made in Fall With Cheese tivities There Square - By C. F. OLSEN-Witthe advent of Holstein Day in Hyrum, and the rapidly growing industry of dairying and its consequent introduction of big herds of improved breeds of cows, as well as the modern manner of conducting the business, the younger generation will be interested to know how this business was conducted here fifty years ago. In the early seventies, the Hyrum Institution, for a time also known as the Hyrum U. O. (U. O. standing for United Order) established a dairy business twenty miles up the Blacksmith Fork canyon, on the site now occupied and owned by Mr. C. L. Anderson. Here was built a dairy large enough to handle and manufacture into cheese and butter the milk from 300 cows or more; additional building necessary for kitchen, dining room and living quarters for the superintendent, and family, bunk houses for the dairy girls and the herders and other male help, were erected. The people were called upon to furnish as many cows as they could spare, and early in May, the season permitting, upwards of 300 cows were driven to the fine mountain pastures of upper Blacksmith Fork. Here Mr. Ole H. Rose presided as superintendent, assisted by his wife and twenty or more girls from town milked the cows ten, fifteen, or more each twice a day, and assisted in the other work connected therewith, at the magnificent salary of about $3.00 and board and lodging per week that is, if they milked eighteen those who could not reach that number were paid correspondingly less. The cheese sold readily on the market at 8, 10 and 12 cents per pound, to 15 retailing for years at cents. The owners of the cows when they received their cows back again in September, were paid in cheese, one-ha- lf of the cheese produced, according to the individual record kept for each cow. Those were days when the frugal housewife would bring her butter, produced and spared from the cows Store kept at home, to the Co-o- p and there exchange it for groceries, calico, coal oil, cotton warp for weaving jeans, and carpets, etc., receiving as an average price from 12 to 15 cents per pound. The Scandinavian women also made cheese at home specializing in comAppetit Ost or Knap-omonly known as Dutch or Cottage Cheese. Those were pioneer days and may seem primitive now, but the butter and cheese were good, and the people engaged in this industry seemed happy and contented. The merry laugh of the healthy, robust dairy girls, mingled with that of the lumber hauler, the mill-hanand the timber and made the old hills with their mer-men- t, as they strolled on summer evenings past the beautiful water falls which abounded between the now The dairy and Curtis Ranch cows 12'' st Owing to the epidemic of diptheria which recently broke out in Wellsville the annual M. I. A. field day will be held in Hyrum Saturday May 15, it was announced yesterday by stake officers. The activities will be tyeld in the Third ward chapel and will commence at 10 a. m. The program will be under the direction of the two M. I. A. stake presidents: Mrs. Elsie Gunnell and Oscar Hendry. H. P. Anderson has been appointed master of cere monies. At noon lunch will be served. From 12 to 1:30 a band concert will be given under the direction of N. W. Christiansen. From 1:30 to 2:30 the Bee Hive, Gleaner and Senior girls will give a demonstration under the direction of Miss Gladys Hughes and Constance Peterson. From 2:30 to 4 the Boy Scouts of the stake, under the leadership of H. P. Anderson, will give demonstrations of scouting on the public square. At 4 p. m. a baseball game will be played to determine the championship of the eastern and western divisions of the M Mens baseball league. This contest is sponsered by E. N. Larsen. The festivities will end with a grand ball at the Cinderella. The following have been appointed by the Central Committee consisting of T. W. Petersen, C. F. Olsen, John A. Israelsen and C.' L. Hall to carry out the beautification program for the public square: Mayor E. J. Wilson. Bishops A. Silas Allen, Edwin Clawson, Jas. G. Christensen. Farm Bureau C. J. Christiansen, C. A. Nielsen, D. O. Nielsen, Alvin Allen. Ladies Farm Bureau Mrs. H. P. Andersen, Laura Christensen, Mrs. Jos. F. Nielsen, Mrs. C. F. Olsen. Coterie Club Mrs. O. H. Birch, Mrs. Clifford Warr, Mrs. Eugene Worley, Mrs. Eugene Petersen. Scout Masters J. J. Wilson, D. C. Black, S. A. Dunn. Relief Society Mrs. E. J. Wilson, Mrs. D. B. Allen, Mrs. Z. W. Israel sen. M. I. A. Mrs. Jas. L. McBride, Don J. Allen, Irvin Hall; Violet Clawson, Mrs. Hugh Foster, Mrs. Arthur Petersen. High Priests A. A. Allen, Israelsen, O. M. Wilson. Z. W. Seventies Alvin Allen, H. B. Nielsen, G. W. McBride. Elders LeRoy Smith, D. Lester McBride. Sunday School Lester Miller, FOR SALE Reuben Hansen, Levi J. Andersen. Three hundred head of good old South Cache High School H. R. ewes and early lambs. Not sheared. Adams, Arthur Jensen, L. C. Nuhn, Sam Bankhead, Telephone N. W. Christiansen. Daughters of Pioneers Mrs. Hardware Ranch. Wanted-- A young calf. Robert Elaine Allen, Mrs. N. J. Nielsen. Even thus long ago, Hyrum was Baxter. Ladies Literary Society Mrs. C. favorably known for her high class L. Hall, Mrs. E. J. Wilson, Jr., Mrs, Subscribe for The Citizen. dairy products. L. M. Edison. d, er re-ec- 91-J- 4. -- : j j |