Show UTAH DAIRY BUTTER I 1 Doubtless the dairymen of Utah will read with Interest what Prof F A 1 I Lelghtpn who recently judged the butter I but-ter the Utah Dairymens association 1 had on exhibition had to say to the Eastern public about Utah dairying I and Utah butter I was printed in the c i I I Chicago Dairy Produce and Is as follows fol-lows f Now Hampton Ia April 17If a tub of Ulah butter made at the present I j I time was sent to n national convention I for Inspection by Iowa and Minnesota l butlermakers they would unanimously I I declare It I t the worst piece of weedy favored fa-vored butter that ever they saw My first with Utah butter experience wlh vjjp at the hotel in Sail Lake City 1 tasted It and smelled It and came to the conclusion con-clusion that Adods must abound in abundance in the cow pastures of that State The next meal it tasted better I and at each meal succeeding an Im I provement was noticed until when 1 1 came away it w ua with a cultivated f taste for Utah weedy butter I soon learned however that It was nol wteds that gave Ito I butter the peculiar flavor but It wis the alfalfa or lucerne whllh I most of the daliy I cows get In thai I State Possibly If a tub of this lucerne I butter was exhibited n t the national I convention It would be scored off on flavor and marked weedy but if the I I same Judges were to go out there lo score they would not mark any off on I account of weeds I o I All butler In that part of Utah has I that tame flavor and It is something I that one will like better ns he becomes accustomed to it At the Stale convention conven-tion held at Salt Lake City there were on exhibition something like twenty lots of butter mostly put up In one pound prints and I wns very much surprised at llio quality of the butter I made In that part of the country I of It I possessed L very firm body brt ter than we got in Iowa There Is one I I other thing we could learn from thorn and lhat Is how to make butter without I with-out mollies Only one lot was mottled mot-tled t out of ie entire exhibit and that is a bettor percentage than at any exhibit 1 ex-hibit of butter at any convention hold I In the Mississippi valley during the last few years I I had pot struck I this one I should have though that I the climate had something lo do with I the absence of motllcs hut as this ole was a welldeveloped case of Minnesota I I Minne-sota molllcs I have had to conclude thai the lock of them was caused by I I thc skill i of their lhltternin items Another thing which Impressed me was the evenness of the quality There wns not the vast difference that is i found Jn our exhibits All of the creamery cream-ery butler on exhibition was of a very quick flavor such as we get from I some of our best creameries in June This of course may be accounted for I bj the fact that most of the cows were getting green food Alfalfa Is a very profitable crop for the Utah dairymen In the valleys where they can Irrigate I freely they harvest throe crops a year and when It comes out of the stack It has the appearance of very green grass It Is veiy rich In proteIn and while our farmers are looking for seme kind of a L feed having protein enough to make a L good ration these farmers arc trying to I raise a feed with a sufficient amount of carbohydrates to balance the protein in I their lucerne The value of alfalfa as I a feed for dairy cows can be readily I I seen when our best timothy bay Is I worth S per ton the alfalfa Is worth over t15 per ton and It can be bought In Utah for 3 to 55 a ton A o The convention at Salt Lake City was a very interesting meeting and while the number in attendance was not as large as at an Iowa convention Ktlll those who do attend come to learn soinethlng and come to stay until mo meetIng closes Jn that State there are about eighty creameries skim sta LonG and cheese factories and those wore well represented better than the HOO in Iowa ale at our meetings Prof Llnfield Agricultural col Llnteld of the t State Agiculural lege Is tho secretary and it has been largely through his efforts that Utah is growing Into a dairy Slate and also that their conventions are so successful success-ful Prof Llnfield Is a hard working gentleman and one whom It Is very pleasant to meet His dairy education was received in Canada and at one lime he was associated with the farm which ers traveling dairy schools have done so much to put Canada to the front rank as a producer of fine buttcr and cheese I Among these eighty factories there are some that rank well with our own Some of them get as high as 20000 pounds of milk a day I notice that one o their great difficulties Is I findlrrg a market for their goods They are not situated like we are having such large markets as Chicago Boston New York and Philadelphia but all of their butter must be sold in their own vicinity 1 vi-cinity Trey cannot ship west as they come Into competition with California producers who they say will sell but tor In their markets for 1C cents a pound when the New York market Is quoted at 20 cents Again there has been some prejudice against butter made in that country many of the larger towns in Oregon and Washington Washing-ton preferring EaStern goods But with the kind o butler they are turning out now lucy are bound to drive our bul tel out of those markets for they are making a better grade of goods than is usually sent west from this country especially at Seattle whore the most of the butter they get Is made from gathered cream and sent from northern Iowa 0 S The creameries in Utah are mostly run on the stock company plan although 1 al-though there are many Individual and somo rooporative and from conversation I I conversa-tion with the managers and owners I I find that then Is I not muoh difference I between t1 i Utoh patrons I and the patrons t o the Mississippi valley cream cries They all want all that belongs to them and a few ot them a Itt < more Although I find that out there they take bettor care of their milk than we do here for not n single lot of butter but-ter showed bad or old milk and that Is something we find in abundance here Well we used to Jet better milk years ago when the business was new thane than-e do nOW and perhaps thin may ll l o their difficulty later on They do not have any > Acent above There all of the butler is sold on Its merits and a poor lot does not bring as much as the fancy even if It Is I a big creamery I I also find that they want the best but tormakers and In that particular they are like tie creameries here T predict t I t 0 bright future for the Utah dairymen for cows will be P valuable addition lo their methods of farming and the two I will go together very nicely In fact the dairy row will be happy anywhere there Is plenty of good feed Sunshine I and a climate like Ttah possesses |