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Show ' " THE DAIRY- INDUSTRY, The dairy industry Is perhaps the Weber county Industry which is most in need of assistance or encouragement. encourage-ment. ' At this time most of the men who arc in t,hc business of milk producing arc wondering whether it wouldn't be tetter to sell all their dairy cattle and start anew in some other business- It is important from several standpoints stand-points that cdnditions be corrected so hat the milk producers do not find it ecrssary to abandon dairying. With the present high prices pre-ajling pre-ajling for feed, the growing scarcity of pasture land and the prices paid by I 1 io milk distributor for the mill: raised by the producer, most of the ovners of dairy cows declare that ,t eir income is far from representing jtie work they do, the service they give and the interest upon the amount they have invested, There are many persons who want; to see the dairy industry made one of I tie county's leading wealth producers J and there arc way3 to bring about this condition, but much hard work Is In-' volved and the co-operation of everybody every-body is necessary. It is doubtful if there will ever be i much more pasture" landinthe county than there is at present, for much of what was pasturo land Is being put to tho more profitable uso of growing sugar beets. Thcro is, "however, n chanco to increase the production of hay in the county. Greater hay products produc-ts will follow the completion of the irrigation and drainage projects when more land is available for production. A better grade of dairy stock is necessary nec-essary for success in the dairy indus-try. indus-try. There was a time when almost any kind of cow would, produce a profit to the owner under former conditions with hay, grain and pulp cheap." But now it takes a first rate cow to show a proHt to the owner A poor cow cats as much as a thoroughbred thor-oughbred milk "producer and gives much less in return for the feed she eats. Every arrangement should be given to the milk producer In his desire to improve his herd by the purchase of blooded dairy stock, There is another matter that requires re-quires attention. The average quality of tho milk produced in Weber county) and sold from house to house is good- Some of the milk producers, however, lake more pains to keep the milk clean than do others. These more progressive pro-gressive dairymen feel that arrangements arrange-ments should be made for permanent educational inspection to insure l he I best grado of milk at all times for tho I consumer. ! Nearly every home in the city buys j fresh milk dally from the milklistrlb-j lutor, who in turn collects it from the I Inroducor. Milk is an Imnnrlnnf lYinri especially for children, to whom il virtually is a necessity. It would seem then that the community com-munity can afford to appoint an offi-1 cial whose entire working lime should i be taken upjn assuring the consumers of wholesome milk and cream. Certain milk producers have suggested sug-gested establishing a co-operative milk depot in Ogden to which the milk producers can bring their milk from ' j the dairy farms to be sold to the city ; consumers as one way out of the flnan-1 cial difficulties that surround the owner of dairy cows. Milk distributors are paying from 19 cents to27 cents a gallon to the own ers of dairy cows for the milk which! they sell from house to house in the-1 city. The milk producers who are urging the co-operative milk distrlbu-' Hon depot declare they could sell milk j to the consumer at less than the con-' sumer now pays bui that producers ' would receive more for the milk than they-do under the present conditions. Whether this co-operative dlstribu-1 tion plan would be successful is qucs : tioned by some of the larger milk pro-1 ducers. They say the situation is ?. ' serious one but hope that (he planj J that have been launched may be car ricd out in such a way that the dair industry wJH be an industry worth en-' gaging in. |