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Show UTAH COUNTY FARMERS ARE URGED TO ENTER DAIRYING i I Bv W. TI. -NIELSEN President Utah County Farm Bureau On a recent visit through the state of Idaho, the writer was very much impressed with the magnitude of dairying in certain sections of that state.' Tn the Caldwell section, , where the Dairyman's cooperative or the Boise A'alley, is located, n very unusual growth has taken place. Commencing operation in Alay, 1025. with 347 members, the plant produced ;t2.!)ll ixmnds of butter at, a manufacturing cost of four cents j per pound butter. In May of li)2('i. Ibev manufactured t:t4.Siw pounds butter at a cost of .027c or pound, ! while the membership has grown lo 707. li Alay of 11127. the butter 'output amounted to 21)0.0110 pounds butter with a manufacturing cost "f .o22c tier iwiund and the membership mem-bership was I.Sim. This was all accomplished ac-complished in 2."i months. The Farmers Cooperative Cream-erv Cream-erv of Payette Valley shows the following desirable growth: Butter manufactured by years from 1016 lo 1S2I inclusive: Mnv, Jtllli 2S.000 pounds May. 1017 ai.DIM pounds Alay. mis 40.000 pounds May, 1010 (vl.loO pounds May. 1020 00. 0(10 pounds Alay. 1021 S7.I121 jMiunds Aiay. 1022 11II.I'i.s:t ihuuhIs Mnv 1024 1S1.0S7 pounds The writer was very much Impressed with this wonderful growth in dairying, and immediately im-mediately began to compare the Idaho sections mentioned with our own Utah county. He finds that Utah county climate is fully if not more favorable for the dairyman, that the grain and hay can be grown fully as well in Utah county, and lhat we have the same outlet for tbe finished product. These general conditions hold out n bright prospect pros-pect for the future of dairying In Utah county. The worm has already began to turn, which was fully demonstrated dem-onstrated by the wonderful showing of dairy cows at Ihe last Utah County Livestock Show held at Spanish Fork. What we now need is a few- more sections to get interested inter-ested in dairy cows. I wish to call the reader's attention atten-tion to the fact that at this lime there is a real live thriving cooier-alive cooier-alive creamery in Utah county, lo-cnted lo-cnted at Provo. which gets its cream supplv from Utah and Wasatch counties. Also note that In Alay or this yenr this crenmei-v ncoo- faclured 32.04 pounds of butter, nil amount almost euunl lo that of the Caldwell Plant for Alay. the first year, and was 4.404 pounds more than was made hv the Payette plant in Alay of their Hrsf yenr. Tt is not beyond possibility for tlie t'tnb-Wasntch plant to eipial if not cxcell cither of the Idaho plants (Continued on Tnge Four) UTAH COUNTY (Continued from page one) and make of Utah county one of the leading dairy sections in the ! west . ".Mr. Header, have you ever stoi-IK'd stoi-IK'd long enough to thoroughly con- j sider the market possibilil ies of our county and state in regard to dairy products. Here are the facts: The stales It led on Hie west and northwest of Utah and Idaho are near enough to the California market mar-ket to supply market milk and sweet cream whcili is mostly used up without with-out finding its way into butter. This forces the California buyers to conic a little farther east for their butter supply, and Utah enjoys the geographical advantage of being the first state from which butter can be bought in quantity. "We need more. It furnishes an outlet for our hay supply in the form of the finished product, and saves freight.' Sir. Ifisney Smith of Los Angeles, expresses the opinion that there is no section of country through which lie lias traveled, that has greater advantages for dairying than has I'tah county, and also says that a market awaits an unlimited un-limited amount or extra creamery butter. II r. Farmer, the opportunity is at your door. Grasp it. Get your weekly or monthly pay day and he ree to market your main crops when market conditions are favorable. |