Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-08 | Page 11 | Farmers Turn to Dairy Products

V. A. YOUNG, supreme president of Fraternal Union, who is coming to visit Salt Lake lodge. FARMERS TURN. TO DAIRY PRODUCTS New Saccharine Standard in Sugar Beets Causes Change in Crop Item. That tho announced intention of several sev-eral of tho largest boot sugar manufacturers manu-facturers operating in this stato to hereafter grado and pay for sugar beets on tho basis of their saccharine contents wilL result in an immediate increaso in tho dairying end of farming in Utah, is the belief oxpressed by a majority of Salt Lake's prominent creamery men. This situation is accounted for in tho fact that the now saccharine standard will necessitate such highor cost of cultivation cul-tivation of beets that farmors will plant their ground, to other products, particularly particu-larly to cattlo feed, in view of .profits accruing from dairying. In southern Utan, especially, where several years ago a groat many farmers virtually gave up their dairy cows and turned their cnorgioB to beet raising, it is expected that dairying will experience experi-ence a sharp increaso at once. "T behove it will not take farmers very long to realize that they niado a mistake in not continuing and improving improv-ing thoir dairy herds.'5 declares Mr. Nelson ot! the Nelson Ricks company of this city. Mr. Nelson added: There has been a.stcady improvement improve-ment in tho quality of 'the cream wo are receiving from Utah and. southern Idaho farmers, and I am confident this will continue, Tho United States bureau of animal industry's in-dustry's doing a splondid work in educating farmers, to the necossitv of a better grade of dairy stock and to tho oven greater necessity of tho fanner testing his own cream. There is a strong tendency among farmers from whom wc receive cream to aid us in every way. This is tho slack season for receiving cream, although as much of the product.is arriving in Salt Lake at tho present as at this time last year. The flush season begins about May 15, and I look for an. extremely heavy movement. The reports wo aro receiving rcgularl"- indicate a very healthy condition in the farmers' end of the dairying business all through the state. The outlook is bright and the creameries, on their part, are doing everything possible to steadily iin- prove conditions, and I beliovo bot-ter bot-ter "butter is boiag mado in Utali today tnan. evor before in tho history his-tory ot the state.