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Show BJG MONEY IN DARYING IF PROPERLY CONDUCTED To say simply "there is money in darying" is very much like saying the same thing about coal-mining or tobacco growing. There is money in it if you undertake it in the right locality; if you do not over-expand at the dangerous time; and if you "know the ropes" so far as the business busi-ness end of the problem is concerned. In the state of Utah there are two factors limiting the success of darying dary-ing in certain localities. First there is the question of a permanent market, mar-ket, and second there is the matter of feed. The bearing of the first question upon the profits to be derived deriv-ed from darying may be indicated by the fact that recently in three northern north-ern counties of the state of Utah three widely different levels of prices for butter fat prevailed simultaneously. simultaneous-ly. In Salt Lake county the price was fifty cents per pound; in Cash county at the same time the price was forty-four cents and in Uinta it was twenty-six cents. It becomes apparent from this that the question of profitable dairying cannot be answered by any blanket statemeent. The farmers of Utah can do much to promote better markets. Condensates, Conden-sates, and cooperative butter and cheese factories are within the demand de-mand of, those who can guarantee a constant supply of milk or cream, and if standardized products of high quality are offered for sale there is no reason why the output of such plants cannot be sold at a good price. But for production to run ahead of the market, spells certain disaster. The problem of an available market for his product, therefore, is always one that the farmer must solve before he decides to go in heavily for darying. dary-ing. The problem ; of good hay and pasturage is one that the farmers cannot entirely control. Naturally soil and climatic conditions determine it to a very great extent. But even these factors are favorable to an increase in-crease of the pasture and highlands, other factors often enter into cause the farmer to hesitate about increasing increas-ing his acreage devoted to these products. pro-ducts. Where rotations are practiced, such a course might prove an unqualified unquali-fied disaster; and Similarly where 1 there is a good summer range it would be a decided waste to feed so extensively . to daily cattle that it would be impossible to provide for enough winter feeding beef cattle to utilize this range. A study now in progress at the Utah Agricultural |
