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Show DAIRYING FORGES TO FRONT DURING 1915 Co-operative Plan for Purchasing Cows Proves to Be Highly Successful in Farming Communities. The co-operative plan by whtch the farmers are able to purchase dairy cows, allowing them to pay for themselves in milk, gave dairying a chance to forge to the front in 1915. One creamery corporation corpora-tion of Salt Lake, which draws heavily from the southern Idaho territory, devised a plan for placing 20,000 dairy cows, in this manner In Idaho and Utah. This one is to be followed bv other co-operative concerns. With the excellent- feed conditions offered, the dairy business has become a profitable one. Creameries are springing up in all parts of the state. Thousands of pounds of butter have been manufactured, together with cheese. Tne Idaho climate Is ideal for the dairy business. busi-ness. Middle western dairymen who have made such a success are missing an excellent opportunity in this state, particularly par-ticularly in the western part of the state, where the climate is rniid, by not looking over the Idaho held. The European conflict has also caused heavy drafts to be made on horses in this 'state. French and English buyers are in the field constantly, examining and buying horses. Trainloads of them left this state for the battlefields. The owners own-ers have reaped a harvest m the sales. These drafts have stimulated a stock industry in-dustry which never had so great a future. There has been just one fear from this drain, and that Is that It will eliminate the hardy Idaho stock for breeding -purposes. Stockmen, however, have taken the precaution to avoid this. The horses have an assessed valuation of 510,000.000. Cattle of all classes have a value of $6,-000,000. |