Show UTAH COWS PRODUCED t M lLlON AND A HALF Rapid Growth and Development of the Dairy industry in-dustry in Utah f Importnt Source of Revenue For the FarmersTwo Hundred Hun-dred Thousand Dollars Invested in Dairy Plants DY PROP F D LD Utah Agcta Cleg6 The dar busnes Is not new even In Utah Its development In the state appear to have had three disinct stages and 1 each of these the bus ness ha been followed In a measure for a dlfrent reason In this perhaps Utah is not different from other states or countries and yet dairying Is of such recent origin here a to brIng the fat forcibly to mind Dalling n this state arose Flrut of the necessities of the people SecondI was Ued in connection with calf raising as a means of adding to the returns from the cows ThirdIn the third and final sta It = began to be considered as a source of pratt from the farm or the prIncipal source of income In the first settlement of the country all the people wee agriculturists and the demand for dairy product was largely only for the farmers own household Milk butter and perhaps cheese were household neesslte ands and-s a few cows were mike to supply this want A few cows only would be needed and these perhaps of Indifferent quality To keep a cow a whole year when the only rturns were a calf Is even in there tmer of high price not verY profitable particularly for the farmer whce her of cows IS limited In number num-ber In fact apr from range feeing and large ownership I am doubtful I the calf when weaned wi square the food account of Its dam for one ea The profits on each animal would at least be small For many years range fed beef cattle were one of the principal sources of income in-come for the great majority of the farmers of the state The most oc thoS fanner were men of limited men To take advantage of the range feeding and at the same time IncrelJe the returns from the cows theY were let out during the summer to some mountain ranch dairy Practically all the in fresh In the cows came spring or early summer A portion of the mIlk they gave was fe to the calf and the ret was made Into butter or cheese more frequently the late The a ragemets made wih the dairy differed differ-ed with different locltcs yet a frequent quent arrangement was that the owner of toe cows g his cows heeded without cost and received at the end of the season the calf and half the cheese made fro the cows Cows handled In thIs way would produce about 20 pounds of cheee for the easn The owner of the cows would receIve therefore fore about TS to 10 worth of cheese and a little better value In the calf under un-der verge conditions The dairy bus mess condlserh1g the free herding would thus practically double the returns re-turns from the cows each sen This practice became very general over the state and has ben kept up even to the present time in many places The most of these dairies were small with fifty to 100 cows but In a few instances they attained large dimension and called for a large amount of help Change of Pla The net sep In the dairy development develop-ment called for S cage of plan In the system jut referred to the cows wee seat to the dalr and were there looked after fed and milked under one management Under the new and latest lat-est system the cws are kept at the nome of the farmer who cares for the cows milks tem and sends the milk to the dar The calf no become not a frt but quite a secondary consideration Dar lag became a question of usIng the cow a a machine to turn the crops of the farm Into a more concentrated and valuable val-uable product thereby increasing the returns from the farm The cow havIng hav-Ing at last attained the highest pla e In the rnldcraton of the farmer more attention has and will be paid to feeding and crng for her so as to el able her to do her best In milk and butter but-ter production Another important result has ben the Improvement of the cows through breeding and selection pe difference between a good and a poor cow is similar simi-lar to the difference between a god and I a poor machine of any kind The better bet-ter the machine the greater its el tlenc the more work It will do for a given expenditure of encrg or food That cow i the best which when generously gen-erously fed produces the largest amount of dairy products from a given amount of food ThIs god cow Is produced duce by developing our COW and rs lag the calves frm the best cows The improvement may also be rapidly hastened by drawing on the experIence and results of improvers tat have preceded pre-ceded us In this field by using the Improved Im-proved stock the pure breed of the dairy type which they have produced When the cow is under the direct control con-trol or managnent of the owner all these poInts of Improvement become posible and are being ate upon at present its the state Another resait that might 101 ow ano nas 1010Wea auto au-to the greater attention that has been cal to the cow I the necessity fo provIding god food and plenty of It Goo crops are necessary In any line of successful faring but the cow has fhown the necessity for a greater variety of crops which afford greater opportunities for crop rttion an important opprtunItes portant consideration in malqtalnln soil fertility and enlarged growth of crop cropTs true that this stage of dairy development calls for more work on the farm but I cannot see why that is not a advantage Profitable work on the farm Is surely smething that all pro gressle farmer would welcome Moreover More-over the dar busIness rlatrbute the labor of the farm over the whole se on It Is not all crowded Into the few summer months The work of the summer mer season being lightened the dar farmer has less need for depending upon outsIde help at the time when this help 11 scarce and what help he docs employ he can use the year round thus improving the condition of the farm help as well as that of the farm owner Firt Factories With this change to the third stage of dairy development in the state cae rapid growth and improvement In the busIness I Is in comparatively recent times that the frt factories were built in Utah Mr L Hansen built the frt cheeo factor in illS at Welsvle Mr W M Raymond started the frt gathered cream plant about the same time The frt separator creamery was stared In the bottom land between Ioronl and Fountain Green Sanpete country about the same date ona year later By 1893 there were twelve factories fac-tories in operation three In Cache county one In Box Elder runt one in Weber runty two In Davis county three In Utah county and two In San pete county Three of thescloed In I the next year or two Nevertheless the Increase In the number of factories bee move steadily forward and the pat year there were sixtyone cheese and butter factories and skimming statIons In operation Thee factorIes are located a follows fol-lows Cache runty 10 Box Elder county 1 WEb r county 5 DavIs county coun-ty 5 Salt Lake county 3 Utah county coun-ty 10 Summit count 3 Wasatch county 4 Morgan county 1 Millard county 2 Salete county 10 Sevier county 2 Tooefe runty 1 Juab county coun-ty 1 Beaver county 1 From what Ica hear people In manY of the countl that are more dist thinking of from the railroads are building factories In the near future The operation of butter and cheese factories calls for a certain amount of skilled labor and yet they are not cr ators of labor in fact they are the opposite op-posite They tae from scores and hundreds hun-dreds of farmer the work of making dres butter and cheese and place it In the hands of one two or three persons a the case may be The factory I a labor saving system In the sixtyone fator s of the state there are from lO to 10 men employed at an average wage of 125 per year Including head makers and assistants As many more maers the are employed wit teams drawing milk to the factories About 9000 to mik 10000 Is paId yearly for labor In and about the factories The factories In the dairy business are not alone labor saving but they are also capital saving systems One dairy outfit serves the hole comun Ity In the dairy plants of the ate there as about 200000 invested During the pat year the factories received ceived about 7500000 pounds of milk ceive 20000 to 2000 the product of about 2000 250 cows The butter made was close to 250000 pounds and the cheese about I 159000 pounds I Prcs Were God DurIng 1899 the price of dairy products pro-ducts has been better than for some years past not alone in the state but in surrounding states where the Utah product was marketed The dead has never ben beter During the ea the factor dairy busIness In the state hs added to the Income of 5000 farmers close to 700000 I have no means of learning 4w much butter bnd cheese was produce apart from that manufactured In factories fac-torIes nor how much milk was use a such I would take 8000 or 100 cows to produce the milk used as milk In this state did each family not use more than one quart a day There Is probably as much or more butter made In private dairies than is made In factories but Is worth only from onehalf to two thirds as much per pound Ranch cheese isyet made but It 15 a rapidly diminishing qualtt I we will add all the above items togethe a rough estimate woUld make the total value to the farmers of the milk butter and cheese sold about 15000 We might go on and show the amount Invested In the dairy business by the farmers thC far equipment and the livestock but that Is outside of our lvestock purpose at this time I purose tme In clclng suffice it to say that the dairyman In looking back on the year that has pat has reason to be thankful thank-ful and to feel encouraged at the outlook out-look for the future Some few are fearful of the future we are going to overdo the business I cannot e I in With the Industrial development of this and surrounding state It is going to keep 1 hustling to keep up to the de and In the natural development that Is upon us the power used will be from a harnessing of the natural forces stored in our mountain streams and In sreams anl the coal fields The Utah farm will have to provide food for men not for the lower animas I believe therefore that In the future a In the past the farmers of the state wi contnue to have one of the best market In the United States will they but grow these products which are most eagerly demanded and grow them in such a way that they will Iepresent the greatest amount of skill and Intelligence getes ligence on the part of the producer1 Art is intelligence made manifest and the highest manifestation of In tel I genre In the production of food no less tan In othqr thing will always re cive relton and reward |