. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, May 19, 1917 THE FARM Dairy Dollars in California. [On account of her remarkable prog- ress in dairy production, based partly on abundant green teed, and partly on account of the superior stock intro- duced, Stanislaus has become the rec- ognized dairy stock market of. Cali- fornia.] Is California a good dairy country? It is. And is there a good market? There is. In 1910 the butter produc- tion in the state, considering creamery butter alone, was 46,000,000 pounds, and in 1916 it had increased to about 70,000,000 pounds, -sr
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, May 19, 1917 THE FARM Dairy Dollars in California. [On account of her remarkable prog- ress in dairy production, based partly on abundant green teed, and partly on account of the superior stock intro- duced, Stanislaus has become the rec- ognized dairy stock market of. Cali- fornia.] Is California a good dairy country? It is. And is there a good market? There is. In 1910 the butter produc- tion in the state, considering creamery butter alone, was 46,000,000 pounds, and in 1916 it had increased to about 70,000,000 pounds, -srith never an in- terruption in the upward progress. San Francisco has become the. leading market on the coast for dairy prod- ucts, shipping as far north, south and west as the waters of the Pacific ex- tend. Of the total product of 70,000,000 pounds (in round numbers), the San Joaquin Valley produces over one- third. And in the San Joaquin Valley Stanislaus stands pre-eminent as a butter producer, with a product, in 1916, of 10,850,161 pounds, per report of the state dairy commission. Be- sides butter, there was 480,000 pounds of full-milk cheese, 9,600,000 pounds of buttermilk and 536,000 pounds of condensed milk. Figuring these at cents for butter, sixteen cents for cheese, one cent for buttermilk, and fifteen cents for condensed milk, we get a total of $3,731,466 for the county's revenue for the dairy. This does not complete the account for, added to the dairy income, should be included calves produced, say, one million dollars; and a large proportion of the value of the hog and poultry products, raised in connection with the dairy. Yet more: there is the contin- ued improvement of the land as a di- rect result of the dairy and the al- falfa. Thousands of acres in the irri- gation districts of Stanislaus county were poor sandy tracts valued at ?15 an acre, or less, before dairying began to be the leading industry of the re- gion, and the value of these same lands is n
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