Show ani the ine dairy industry in utah uta dy by courtsey cour tsoy of the national copper bank and trust company ot of salt lake city utah r f endowed with natural conditions condl tiona sll sil domed equaled for dairying utah should with proper effort become the denmark of western america americ a with intelligent and consistent development there Is no lie valid reason why utah should not in a measure mca suie bo be as successful and in fit somo some ways waya more successful in dairying than wis coasin the premier dairy section of america americ a today not only are natural conditions ull usually favorable to dairying but the economic situation in utah demands the advancement industries whose products are mak retable tit at home or in highly concentrated form in tho the transition from war to peace tile the fullest recognition of all economic conditions Is of supreme importance each community and each region must consider carefully the fundamental soundness of its industries and stimulate the development of abuse of firm foundation pursuit of such a policy in the respective corn com muni ties and regions must bring pros parity bority and automatically restore normal condit conditions loiis throughout tho country in the shortest time although any industry may display weakness at times there are few major industries taking the country as a whole that can be classed as unsound fundament fun fundamentally damen tally but this condition does not apply in the same depreo in the cases of communities and regions generally natural conditions distance from market and available tran sport atlon tation will indicate the possibilities tor for development of Indu industries industry e of stable character readjustment operations also have been highly effective in pointing out ont tile the unsoundness of industries which formerly for meily weib considered stable and prosperous I 1 agriculture as a whole la Is the back bona of our i sance but it does not follow that agrie agriculture dIturo is fundamentally sound in every community and region in some adverse natural conditions make agriculture an impossibility in ill others market transportation facilities vad costs and land values make certain alit branches ot of agriculture unprofitable and a nd fundamentally unsound taking taking into consideration all elements dairying has haa demonstrated its fundamental stability and merit to further development in utah the dairying communities are in the best financial condition of any communities in the state today because of the steady income and the tact fact that dairy foods are among the few products of the farm that have not receded to prewar pro pre war price levels As AB further encouragement to development we have the advantage of unexcelled excelled natural conditions favorable to bodin din ml j 1 ing n g in our mountain valleys woj TLC V ocal markets tar far in excess 10 lo r production and the country as a whole la Is an importer of dairy products through daAr dairying ying permits tile the marketing 01 of nany many of our principal farm products in fit highly 1 concentrated form and last but not least it provides work and a pay day for every day of tho the year prior to about fifteen years ago states was an all exporter of dal 4 products but the tide has turn now wo we a are re heavy importers I 1 if i of butter u er and cheese millions of pounds of which are received annually from canada denmark argentine argentina now new zealand and australia despite this situation dairying has not decreased in the tha country as aa a whole but statistics indicate that not only la Is the production falling failing to keep pace with growth la in population but that the consumption of dairy foods per capita Is steadily advancing under conditions existing today it is estimated that utah consumes annually about pounds of butter and cheese besides large quantities of cream and whole milk ice fee cream and condensed milk for the most part utah dairymen are supplying milk and cream for domestic use ice cream and condensed milk manufacture but they are furnishing only about 70 per cent of the butter and 60 50 per cent of tile the cheese consumed locally unlike the market for or most other p a products tho the market for milk a arf cream Is IP constant Ins instead teat of seat ecat fv 0 i and the demand always is in ex r a 1 A l the supply it is interesting to observe also that under present strained ned conditions llie market price 0 ota milk illk and cream is relatively 40 30 to 40 per cent higher than tile market pi prices lem of other farm products in filet act they are about the only products ot of tile farm which have not declined to lo pro war price figures milk ailak and cream are tit in firm demand denland in practically every city and town tow it in tile the state throughout the year and the 40 plants for the manufacture of butter cheese and condensed conden ced milk are constantly tit in search of supply their market la is not alono alone local although tile tho output of the butter and cheese plants does noe not approach the consul atlon in ill the state the in utah cupply a large proportion ot of the condensed milk used locally but because of the heavy importation front from other states they are compelled to seek and do so tully outside markets for a considerable portion of their but should the time arrive when production of dairy products exceed the local demand there are constantly growing outside markets in tile the west in which utah manufactures can readily compete utah especially salt lake city Is the distributing center for the whole intermountain country which is growing steadily in population it also is accessible to pacific coast cities which are growing oven even more rapidly than those of tile the intermountain intel mountain region and which now are in many instances depending upon exported butter and cheese to moot meet the local demand manufactures it has been estimated that the its uso of the total production of milk in the country as aa a whole is divided as follows 44 per cent la is consumed milk i 1 ent into ice fee cream 4 per cent is used for feeding purposes 36 per ollae ow sl s aoa glicr cont into aneese 4 per cent into bondon condensed sed milk and 3 per cent is wasted in a dairying state howo however it Is scarcely to bo bi expected that these gen eral averages will prevail certainly not in utah where the manufacture of condensed milk is one the ti big Indu dl rif 6 I 1 it is reasonable to assume that con sid erable more than halt half the milk production tit in utah la Is used in ill the manufacture of butter cheese condensed milk and lee ice cream practically every city and town of any im poi tance has one or more manufacturers of lee ice cream but the butter and cheese making plants necessarily aro are limited to central localities in ill producing or distributing areas so ho tar far tile the condensed milk industry la Is to cache county although one plant la is under consideration in utah county the report of the state dalry dairy and food commissioner for the year ID 19 20 shows a total of 42 operating plants manufacturing butter cheese P and condensed milk one cheek 0 plant being reconstructed and tour four skimming stations shipping to factories tac torlea I 1 hore here were five creameries crea meries merles and one conden sory making butter and cheese 20 creameries crea creamer meries fes making butter only 13 clieo cheese plants operating and one under reconstruction and 4 conden series these were distributed as follows I 1 creameries Crea meries merles making butter anil and chiese vernal salt lake city ogden ephraem and scipio crea creameries erles meries making butter butter only deaver beaver duchesne Du chesno price st george oakley morgan tremonton Tre monton logan three at ogden and eight at salt lake atly cheepo manufacturing g plants kanosh heber midway P laketown Lake town kamas hamas randolph hunts ville morgan richfield hooper fillmore holden and one at meadow Ate adow being reconstructed con hyrum logan richmond and smithfield smith field tile the richmond plant also madd made butter and che cheese eso skimming stations fairvin sprint spring city eden and Slat slaterville erville manufactories Manu factories are essential to the dairy industry other than to supply the current need for manufactured products in that they afford a ready market at all times for milk and cream in excess of tho the demand tor for honio homo use the heaviest milk 1 ct ion comes largely durin T the grazing razing season ordinarily ho he production during june july august and september la Is about equal to the total production for the remaining eight months of the year such irregularity in milk production naturally creates a surplus in summer and a shortage in winter but ahn manufacturers take advantage of the situation to aqua lizo alzo matters by taking all milk available during the heavy production period turning it into butter chemo and condensed condense 4 milk and storing tile the products to caro for tho the demand during the lean product production lon months continued on pago jasd 8 THE INDUSTRY IN UTAH productions IHO PRODUCT IOS the annual butter production in ill utah is estimated at about pounds alien about 4 pounds made by and I 1 fhe homes tho the cheese production I 1 la pound and tile the condensed milk production is about cari to meet our local needs tt t Is ary to bring into cinto th state each year about pounds of butter and pounds of cheese our coq consumption t f condensed milk provably is 6 not equal to our production but we cause our local manufacturers to market ril anich liell af tb b 4 product ro duct in other stat states cs i using lising largo large quani quantities ties 0 of f conde condensed ased milk made by outside fa fact ct cries in ili normal times this probably works no ile great hardship but under I 1 conditions such as have prevailed dur ing the past year it undoubtedly was I 1 I in part for curtailment ui in local production conservative estimates estimate indicate andl cat that the dairying industry Is returning to the ho dairymen farmere of the state approximately an scally there aro arc about 2530 40 farms farm in the state and head bead of da try iry stock including a high percentage of cows taken take n from froin range herds for milk purposes on this basis thero hero aro nit an average of choul four four head of dairy stuck to each farm farin P anil and the average return per animal would bo be about 45 or till an alvra 0 o ot of about 1 to each farm front dairying probably because of tho number of range cows in ili we the estimate est linato of dairy stock alic average production of butter fat per animal lit in the la Is low the estimated feild la Is loss than pounds annually moro more attention to breeding and care of the animals should easily bring the aver igo go belld to tolbo pounds of buter lor fat a year OP since tile tho coming of the pioneers dairying has hag played an all catlie canive dart lit in tho the it life of utah in ili the early earthe lays days the passing wagon trains afforded about tho the only market and buttor butter making was largely confined to the fat farms mg although thero ther 0 may hav been st i few cheese plants then cam came the mining c camps amps and the railroad anti and tho the dalr dairying ying industry began to assume commercial importance in ili 1906 1905 there were ivere reported ported le ga creameries crea meries cheese plants af arid id skimming stations in ili tile the state mostly small and the aggregate value of the production was estimated at about about this time tile the first condon so i ry lit in the state was com coin pleated rt nt hi richmond climond and cream separ ato on the market in 19 10 lo use of cream separator lade ado it possible to still ship cream to the bigger centers and many of tile the small plants closed irown tie be causo cause they were unable to meet com 1 pot petition in the rural cream markets the report of the state dairy food coin commissioner lit assion or for that year showed only GO 50 crea morleA choose plants and skimming stat stations lovs and three conden den tile the value of the tri manufactured anti dairy products was estimated at about during the lie past ten tell years tile industry has shown material growth tile the value vaille of dairy products last year being about out JS but tile the biggest advancement probably proba lily lias has been made in ili the stabilization stabilisation atholl of tile the industry through improvement in ill herds and dairying bieth and tile the centralization of effort at the first of the year there hero were only 44 plants of all kinds reported lit in operation although oil one was closed only temporarily and two were under construction in its ills report f for or 1005 the 0 state tj to dairy anti and 1 food commissioner lid did give an all estimate of tile the number of dairy cattle but ile ho lid did deplore tile the fact that about 70 tier per cent of them were of beet blood thereby limiting production estimates for 1910 in dicato that the dairy stock numbered and head still with a preponderance of 0 beet beef blood today there are approximately 00 head of dairy stock in tho the state all and 1 I while in many of tho the outlying districts the percentage of beet beef blood is high there are many purebred pure bred herds lit in the dairying districts and the tendency in recent years has been steadily in tho the direction of better bred dairy animals SOURCE OF SUPPLY tile tho dairy industry is pretty well vell scattered among tile the mountain valleys throughout the state there probably aro are not more than 6 counties out of 29 which do not market milk and cream during duro certain times in the year and all of them undoubted undoubtedly ily w would figure to ka a greater degree in ill tile the industry it ft an adequate equate trans por talon wore available As it Is practically one third of tito in milk I 1 k and cream sold to cre creameries crea meries and chea plants comes colnes from districts 25 miles from railroads rall roada about 76 per cent of the milk and cream supplied to these plants Is furnished by farmers who consider dairying d a line cache county la Is the leading dairying I 1 rig section of tho the state at this tifft tim i and produces produced a probably one fourth of the milk marketed in ili utah it la is estimated that the annual return to dairymen lit in that section la is about 15 lit in cache are tile the largest pure bleds herds in ili the state and there tho the closest attention is given to tile tho feeding ind and care ot of dairy animals most alost of is marketed at the where the price of butter fat usually la is several cents high higher orthan than at the cream eries cries because till nil the milk is used in ill manufacturing utah county ranks second in fit milk productions product loni ioni ani and is making such rapid strides in ili dairying that within a tow few years it should rival cacho cache but there are many splendid herds ds in dox box eldr biar rich morgan weber sum suin anit davis salt lake wasatch sanpete and sevier counties and good herds are arc being developed lit in juab lillard carbon carbary k plute iiron on toole Duc duchesne lieslie and Uli uintah counties A very large laige portion of tile the milk pr produced 0 in fit box elder weber divis daris div is morgan summit aalt lako wasatch and utah counties counti fi Is u used ed to supply the tables of salt lake city and ogdon 14 the fhe cash return from the sale of milk ik and cream does not represent ahn full benefits derived by the farmer front from dairying although under existing conditions that averages about 46 45 for each head of dairy daily stock in ili the state thero there must bo be considered also alfao tile tho increase in fit tile the fird tile the fertilizer and the th 0 whey wit e Y 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