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Show A SHORT REVIEW OF THE J DAIRY INDUSTRY j IN UTAH. I Since the establishment of the "Dcs- u crct Farmer" it has been the aim of its H editors to publish such articles and if facts which it was thought would I tend towards the cnlightmcnt of the I dairy man and advance the interests of the dairy industry. Articles by experts in this line, and statistics of facts have been printed in the endeavor to educate the dairy farmer and show him which cows were best adapted to his section and the best methods of feed and attention atten-tion necessary to bring the best re- suits. j Wc take it that efforts of the "Far mer have not been in vain, judging ', from the many letters sent in (by the farmers from all sections; and now i that the milch cow has become just , as much of a factor and revenue pro- 1 ducer on the farm as any of the crops I wc believe a little mention of the mar- I keting end of the business should be made. At the time Utah was being founded found-ed and none of its towns had grown to metropolitan cities, the families must of necessity be self-supporting, and besides raising the food in the garden, kept a cow in the back yard, making butter for their own use. Utah developed; the cows of the city were disposed of, and in their place came the dairies and creameries to supply the populace with the finest of milk, butter, cheese, etc. The creamery speedily became the great servitor of the consuming populace on one side and the dairy farmer on the other. No up-to-date farmer pretends pre-tends now to keep dairy stock for any other purpose than shipping the milk product, and he is fast becoming wise in the matter of shipping, he will no longer hesitate to ship to creameries away from home if satisfied satis-fied of their responsibility. It may seem strange to many farmers far-mers that their cream can be shipped miles away and made into butter anil those factories pay a better price than local creameries. The reason is that where the central creameries arc located lo-cated they have and control the markets. mar-kets. They also have the advantage that when the time of surplus comes as it docs every year, they have the advantage of cold storage plants, costing thousands of dollars, without which all the surplus butter would be a loss. The local creameries not being able to hold their butter until prices arc better have to suffer a loss often times hundreds of dollars more than they make when butter is a good price. To handle a centralized butter plant takes capital and the Elgin Dairy, Creamery & Supply Co. have one of the best equipped plants in the Inter-Mountain country. The Elgin Dairy Co. always pay the market price for creamy giving the correct test at all times, never boosting boost-ing a test to get business, then later taking more than is due them, but doing an honest legitimate business. We wan't all the cream product and when shipping always ship to us in our Red Cans. |