Show FAVORS interesting letter from W C smith of fr on the subject editor ROUNDUP ROUND UP in your issue of april 2nd and I 1 noticed an interesting article by W S muir in which tho the writer gives some good advice and instructions in regard to dairying which wh from a person of 0 so much experience experienc should be of grout great value to the re readers rs of the ROUNDUP ROUND UP in one place the writer bays that the most profitable feeds are out of our reach bran being too high and corn and most leguminous plants being seldom seen in this valley now there is one cereal which th the e farmers dont pay enough attention to and that is barley I 1 give below the fuel value between corn and barley corn meal and barley meal and also bran as compiled by the department ot of agriculture sn in the year book of 1895 corn dry matter 89 1 broteen carb hydrates fat calories barley dry matter pro teen carb hydrates fat calories corn meal dry matter broteen carb hydrates fat calories barley meal dry matter broteen carb hydrates fat calories bran dry matter broteen 1201 01 carb hydrates fat calo ies by it will be seen that there is very little difference between betwee n corn and barley there is a sur surplus plus of protein pr vr oteen and a little less carbohydrates carbo hydrates addless and less fat in barley compared with corn but the difference is in favor of the milk cow there is no doubt but whit what we can raise barley with any country and as it yields heavy and matures quickly it might be well for farmers to investigate it mr muir cuir also says that with bran at 85 87 to 90 cents and butter from 12 to 20 cents mostly store pay he cannot see sea much of a chance to start and continue a success successful fal dairy business that will pay all help and leave a small margin forthe for the manager now what I 1 want to bring forward in this article is why cant the tar farmers mers of rich co start a creamery or two or else get capital inta interested rested to start one we have overa every facility for the operation ol of a few creameries crea meries creamery butter batter has always a good sale with prices way ahead of ranch butter find and tash iash at that let me call the attention of the farmers of this valley to an article from a wellsville Wel leville correspondent to the semiweekly tribune of march in relation to creameries crea meries in cache co he says during the year 1898 1890 there were wera seven creameries crea meries running the entire year which brought in cash into the county fur butter and cheese exported the following amounts wellsville milleville millville mill villa ville dairies combined smithfield the union at richfield cache valley at richfield hyde park making a grand total of nearly all of which is distributed among the poorer class of farmers throughout the tha county which enables them to live during daring the earing and summer without going in debt to the merchants land of goshen I 1 suppose rich co had one hundred and thirteen thousand collars distributed among the far farmers criers every year in clean cash we know what to do with it in another place the same correspondent says the plan adopted by the creameries crea meries merles is such that any person having even a single COW ran can receive its benefits a largo can is left at each persons residence furnishing milk at night and called for next morning he says in another place As an example a small farmer has four cows his family of six children have all the milk and butter they want and he received from tile the creamery tor milk furnished last year what a bonanza that would te be for some of our farmers one of the creameries crea meries has a in connection with it on a large scale from chih which has been sold since jan 1896 worth of hogs another pig suu source ace of profit in conclusion I 1 will say it if they can make such sucha a success of creameries crea meries in cache county why cant we do the same me here in our valley it if we put our sho shoulder ulder to the wheel and push 7 WILLIAM 0 SMITH woodruff rich eich co utah april |