Tillamook headlight., September 12, 1901, Image 3

Supplement to Special Edition of the Tillamook Headlight.
The GROWTH OF DAIRYING
IN
TILLAMOOK COUNTY.
is a richness and fine flavor about Tillamook cheese which is pecu­
liar to itself, and which the faculty of the Oregon Agricultural
College at Corvallis pronounce excellent, for this fine flavor cannot
be found in cheese manufactured iu other parts. Tillamook cheese
has passed successfully the criticisms of cheese tasters in China,
Japan, Philippine Islands, Honolulu and South America, and Mr.
P. McIntosh, who is an experienced cheese maker and the largest
Many Advantages in Tillamook which Make Settlers manufacturer of that article in Oregon, contemplates send­
ing a shipment of Tillamook cheese to Loudon, England. These
Prosperous, Happy and Contented.
are some of the reasons why Tillamook cheese is a premium on
the market, for when cities like San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma
The growth of the dairy industry in Tillamook county is an and Seattle are continually calling for Tillamook cheese and the
enterprise which has made rapid strides, yet for all that it is still demand cannot be supplied, is evidence enough in itself that its
in its infancy, for the county contains many thousand acres of land reputation is firmly established, for as the product grows larger
The demand for
which will eventually be turned into valuable dairy farms—land every year greater becomes its reputation.
which cannot be surpassed for productiveness in Oregon and which Tillamook cheese is such that if all the unimproved land in Tilla­
produces an abundance of green feed the year round. Grass is mook county was turned into dairy farms there would be no trouble
King in Tillamook. It grows in luxuriance on the river bottoms, in disposing of it at good prices. Portland wholesale merchants
in the numerous valleys and on the hillside. What makes Tilla­ at one time thought they had a corner in handling Tillamook
mook an ideal dairying county is the fact that dairymen have not, cheese and raised the price to 1% cents for doing so, but they soon
as in other parts of Oregon, to buy mill feed for their dairy herds. found out they had little or none of Tillamook cheese to handle.
This is done only where a dairyman has a limited amount of land I11 some measure this will account for the manufacturers seeking
and a large dairy herd. Very few dairymen are in that situation. other markets, and with flattering success, as already indicated by
Dairy herds in Tillamook are fed the year round on what is raised the demand from other markets.
What is said of Tillamook cheese can be said of Tillamook
on the farm, and it is a surprise and a wonder to visitors to see the
creamery
butter—it is a choice article and at a premium on the
cattle in such splendid condition, especially so if they come from
localities where the summer heat dries up every vestage of feed for market.
These are some of the reasons why Tillamook County offers
cattle. Not so, however, in Tillamook, for it is impossible to
find any of Pharaoh’s lean kine in the county. In not having to so many advantages to those who desire to find and locate in a
buy feed is where Tillamook dairymen have a decided advantage J dairying country, advantages which will make them prosperous,
and which makes their yearly income foot up so well, for most of | independent and contented, for no industrious, up-to-date dairy­
them compute that every cow they add to their herd it will be a man ever failed in Tillamook, and as to crop failures through
net gain of $50, or more, annually to their income—of course, not drouth, heat, snowstorms, blizzards, cyclones or pests that destroy
taking into consideration labor or investments in stock or farm. crops, these are unknown in Tillamook.
FRED C. BAKER,
Being able to grow an abundance of feed and with always a large
Editor of the Tillamook Headlight.
quantity of hay in the barns from the previous year when harvest
time rolls round, and being in close proximity to cheese factories
or creameries, account in a large measure for the financial success
YOUNG MAN, GO TO TILLAMOOK.
which dairymen enjoy in Tillamook. Cheap feed and plenty of
it is the condition cf affairs in this county.
The hay crop
for 1901 was the largest and best in the history of Tillamook. Ex-Governor Pennoyer says it is an Ideal Happy Country
Most of the dairymen have “ Hay to burn.”
Noted for its Green Grass, Butter and Cheese.
With the advent of scientific dairying, a large number of ex­
perienced cheese and butter makers with modern improvements
[FROM THE MORN1NO OREGONIAN.]
in the factories, the gradual weeding out of scrub animals and the
Ex-Governor Pennoyer has returned from a trip to Tillamook, and, although
introduction of the general purpose cow and most of the well he was there a week he seemssorry that he didn't stay longer. He says Tillamook
known breeds for dairying the past few years, shows how rapidly was a revelation to him, and he found it to be one of the literal "happy valleys"
Tillamook is forcing itself to the front, and by an industrious and he has read and dreamed of.
“Tillamook is fresh and green,” said the ex-Govemor, “and the cows are all
persevéiing class of people. Another ten years will completely
revolutionize Tillamook county by turning every valley and hill fat and sleek. It is a great dairy region, and between Tillamook and Garibaldi I
side into a green sward of rich grazing land, and it is safe to pre­ passed half a dozen cheese factories. Tillamook is noted for its good cheese, and
butter, and it was a great sight to see the long rows of big milk cans outside the
dict that dairy stock will be multiplied more than twenty times, farmhouses.
The whole country is fresh and green over there, and I consider it
and where there is now one successful dairyman there will be ore of the finest dairy regions I ever saw. It will keep a cow to the acre, and the
twenty, if not more, by that time. Thus it will be seen that business mustbe profitable, for ex-Senator .Maxwell, who has 25 cows now, will
Tillamook county offers many advantages to those who are look- soon increase the herd to 50. If I were a young man I would try for a start in
,ng for homes in the Northwest.
Tillamook in preference to any other part of Oregon."
To show how the dairy industry is growing, it was only a few
Although he has been in Oregon 46 years, this was theex-Governor's first visit
years since, in 1894, that Messrs. McIntosh & Townsend erected to Tillamook, and he said that he enjoyed it very much. At Hobsonville, which is
the first cheese factory in Tillamook.
In that year 130,000 nnmed after John Hobson, the Astoria Pioneer, he saw the big mill of the Truckee
pounds of cheese was manufactured in that factory. This was Lumber Company, and at Garibaldi he enjoyed sitting on the sandy beach and
thought to be a good beginning, for previous to that date most basking in the sun and breathing the salt sea air. Between Tillamook and Hob­
of the dairymen manufactured butter and packed it, while some sonville Mr. Pennoyer rode on a stage that was driven by a woman. The route is
eight miles long. Although 70 years of age. Governor Pennoyer made the round
few made cheese with the old process. In 1895 the above factory trip to Tillamook by stage via North Yamhill, and enjoyed the novelty of sleeping
manufactured 200,000 pounds of cheese. In 1896 two large fac­ in a barn. On the return trip he left Tillamook city at 6 P. M. and the stage came
tories were added, and from that date to this they have multiplied out 16 miles to the Trask House, where the hotel had burned down. They had
very rapidly, for there are forty, large and small, factories in oper­ tents for travelers, but the Governor requested the privilege of sleeping in the barn,
ation at the present time, which makes a keen competition for and was accommodated. He enjoyed the novelty verv much until the wind
the dairyman’s milk.
The present output of dairy product in struck his head along toward morning, when lie had to use his soft hat for a
Tillamook is 1,500,000 pounds of cheese and 500,000 pounds of nightcap.
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"Tillamook is a land of logs and green grass and cows and dairies and big
butter annually.
As to the disposal of the dairy product manufactured in Tilla­ treesand lumbering, and it has a great future," said the ex-Governor. "1 am glad
mook county, it is surprising what a demand there is for it. 1 here I made the trip."