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Supplement to Special Edition of the Tillamook Headlight.
PROFITABLE DAIRYING IN
TILLAMOOK.
The Amount of Money Twenty Cows brings to Industrious
Dairymen in Tillamook County.
cents per pound and the butter 21.01 per pound, amounting to a little oar
$7,484.61, while the average test wns 4.7.
The Tillamook Dairy Association returns for 1900 show that this ertamm
wns in receipt of 2,528,831 pounds of milk, the average test of which was 41],
This produced 104,971 pounds of butter fat at an average of 23 cents per pound,
and the butter manufactured was 120,888 pounds, amounting to $24,782 04.
have before ns the monthly statements of Mr. J. F. Martin, one of Tilla­
An Echo from the Pan American Expostion.
mook's industrious dairymen, which is but one out of hundreds of like statements
B uffalo , New York, September 2nd, 1901.
which could be publishsd at this time as a result of dairying in Tillamook county
[ to the editor of T illamook headlight ."!
last year, showing what a profitable industry it is, especially when people
D ear S ir ,— Having received several packages of the Headlight for distributios
locate in an ideal dairying country like this, where an abundance of green feed can
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the
Pan American Exposition, I consider it proper that the people of Tillamook
at
be procurred nearly the whole year. Mr. J. F. Martin came to Tillamook county
ten years ago with very littlemoney after experiencing several years ofcropfailutes be informed regarding the effect of your commendable enterprise, for surely »
in Kansas, and not in robust health when he located in this county. He has now better plan could be suggested for advertising the great nnd varied resourcaof
a well improved farm, well stocked, all paid for, and money in the bank. This is the county, and the copies sent us were gobbled up like hot cakes, as th
the experience of quite a number of dairymen in Tillamook county, who, having illustrations of her big trees were not only a wonder, but a surprise to tin
tried farming in the middle states with failure of crops ill summer and blizzards in Easterner, ns well ns the pictures ol some of the farm and dairy scenery,and if o|j
winter, eventually located here to find, to their great satisfaction, that they had Tillamook is over run by emigrants from the East in the next few vears-yo«
" struck it rich." Mr. Martin is one of the directors of South Prairie Creamery, people will have to lay the blame upon the editor of the Headlight ami the writti
and, consequently, took his milk to that institution to be manufactured into but­ hereof for distributing the papers, as he still has a very warm place in his heart fo,
ter. He milked 20 cows last year, which gave 130,961 pounds of milk, and this dear old Tillamook with her big hearted and hospitable citizens with their pro.
produced 5,058 pounds of butter fat. When manufactured it made 5,874 pounds gressive ideas.
Oregon is represented at the Pan American Exposition in five different depart,
of butter, and after deducting $146.86, or 2'/jc. per pound, for manufacturing, gave
Mr. Martin a net profit of $1,018.96 for his milk from the creamery tor his twenty ments. and Tillamook has a conspicuous place in each. In the agricultnral di
cows, making an average of $50.94 for each cow,or, not including the cost of man­ play her tall grasses and grains loom up above many of their neighbors: in the
ufacturing the butter, $58.29 per cow. To this can be added at lenst $10 per Horticultural Building the jars of cranberries from Sand Lake, raised bv Mr.i
In the Forestry display the fine qualitia
head for young stock and hogs raised on the skim milk. These figures are no ex­ C. King, are the center attraction.
ception to the rule where dairymen have weeded out front their dairy herds cows of lumber from the Nehalem, Hobsonville and Tillamook mills are admired by all;
which do not give good tests ; in fact, as there is a friendly contention between the in the Mineral department.Tillnmook is represented by coal from Nehalem, agita
dairymen who take theirmilk to the creameries and those who take it to the cheese jaspers and carnellians from Kilchis point, the Ocean Beach and river bars ; in the
factories, from figures already published, the cheese factory returns will average Geological collection we have fossil shells from Memaloos point and bceswai froi
from 5c. to 7c. per pound higher last year than those at the creameries. This can Nehalem spit.
If we could only show our Eastern visitors some of your Tillamook climate
be accounted for that shipping facilities are irregular for butter, and instead of the
butter reaching market in the splendid condition in which it is manufactured, it is its pure water, with her fine game and fish, I fear some parts of the over-crosda
sometimes two. three, four and five weeks before it can reach market. Yet with East would soon become depopulated, for Tillamook infilled with garden spoti
this disadvantage, dairying, as the following statements will prove, is a profitable with fields for investments in every possible direction—agricultural, horticultor«
and lumbering—for she has within her boundaries the soil, the climate, theeaw
industry and knocks wheat raising to smithereens:
tial conditions for cultivation, for development and for the achievement of the let
Net
Pounds Aver, Pounds 1 Over Pounds Price Charge
butter. per lb. manuft'g. profit. business results in whatever direction capital, effort and energy may be direct«.
run.
milk.
fat.
test.
$84.32 Her health conditions are all that can possibly be desired. Hard times can arm
March.......... ... 11,528 3.6 415 19 6-10 496 19.5 $12.40
97.39
18.70
April .......... .. 17,446 3.55 620 20 7-10 748 15.52
131.42 interfere with n county like Tillamook, nor lessen the productiveness of a Itrtik
882 17 4
22.05
15
Mav............. .. 21,918 3.5 767
21.63
134.07 soil, nor do financial storms effect its markets. And your old Tillatnoolter mat
755 14 5.10 865 18
June............. .. 20,983 3.6
18.73
131.07 take into consideration that the county has only recently commenced to mak
Julv............. .. 17,892 3.7 662 13 1-10 749 20
128.26 strides of progress along commercial and industrial lines nnd must let the outwit
635 22.7
15.88
16
547
August ...... .. 13,674 4.0
119.91
23.5
14.27
571
September .. 11,109 4.4 489 16 3-4
83.40 world know what inducements she has to offer. A glance into the future
14 3
417 22.5
10.42
7,294 5.0 365
October ......
6.65
266 24
57.19 reveal the possibilities that are at hand, and judging from the eagerness shown bt
4,680 4.8 225 18 3-5
November....
14 3
173 24.2
4.33
37.53 Eastern people to secure literature regarding the opportunities of the great Norti
December.... .. 3,147 4.8 151
1.80
14.40 west, it is evident that the copies of the Headlight sent us are doing an immtiw
4.8
62 16 2
72 22.5
January....... .. 1,290
5,874
130,961
5,058
$146.86 $1,018.96 lot of good. It develves upon the local press to proclaim the message fortbebffiil
of all, the manifold attractions, the variety of natural resources and opportunity
in Tillamook county, which are equalled by few localities nnd surpassed by no«.
The Milk Peddler Makes >100 on Each Cow.
This your paper has done and is doing, and the measure in which it will rebond
We have before us the returns of N. J. Myers, who '• peddles ” milk in Tilla­ to the benefit of Tillamook county can be read in its future progress.
A. W. MILLER,
mook Citv. He ha» 14 cow», four of which are heifer», which makes his heard
Superintendent Oregon Mineral Exhibit, Pan-American
equal to about 12 cows. His receipt amount to :
Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y.
September.
$84.05
April.......
$106.10
79.65
May.......
Octobet....
108.15
88.50
November
June.......
134.30
104.10
July .......
December ..
120.10
What the Food and Dairy Commissioner Says.
January ...
98.10
August ...
105 35
Commissioner Bailey has recently returned from a trip through Tillamook
February .
75.20
97.60
March ......
Total............................. $1,201.20
county and is very enthusiastic over its prospects and possibilities as a dairy
He ha» a farm of 30 acres of land and pnid out $30 for mill feed, the other feed gion. White clover grows in profusion in every clearing as a voluntary crop, nnd
being raised on the furm. Thu» it will be seen that these cows made an average the grasses are exceeding nutritious, while the climate insures pasturage tlic vwf
of $100.10 for the 12 months.
round. Cheesmaking is a great industry in Tillamook and a profitable one. A
price of 11 cents a pound is realized, which Mr. Bailey says is equal to 25cents«
pound for butter, and there is no reason why the dairymen should not I* prosper­
Twenty-Five Cents Net for Butter Fat.
ous. The people there realize they have a good thing and they ail talk cheese. He
Another instance of successful and profitable dairying in Tillamook county is says you cannot l>egin to talk upon any subject to a Tillamook county rancher
furnished bv the annual returns of the South Prairie Cheese Factory, lielonging to but he quickely turns the conversation the same way as he turns the milk of
P. McIntosh, who has five large factories in the county for last season. The herd into cheese. The dairying interest of that coast county is only in its infaflcj
South Prnirie Cheese Factory hasbeen inoperation now twoyears,and the patrons and Mr. Bailey says when it is brought up partially to its possibilities it will be
are more than pleased with the satisfactory result of that institution, for when greatest wealth-producing, cash- geting section of the state.
dairymen receive 25c. |>er pound, net. for butter fat it is plain proof that they are
in a profitable business, especially ns they raise all the feed on their farms for their
What a Deputy Grand Master, A.O.U.W., Advises.
dairy herds. This is where Tillamook has an advantageover other counties in
dairying, in raising—instead of buying—plenty of feed for winter nnd summer, mak­
Deputy Grand Master M. G. Wilkins, in his report to the Oregon A.O.V’
ing this an ideal dairying country and the best in the State of Oregon. When Reporter, had a few words of commendntion for Tillamook county, whkh
dairymen can rnise their own feed and make a net profit of $50 nnd over per an­ meet the eye of ten thousand Workman in the Oregon jurisdiction. This is «
num from the milk of each cow it is a sure sign that they nre doing well, nnd as he wrote:
proof of this the many improvements of farm property the past few years is a good
"Tillamook county is noted for good land, fine timber, the greatest countn
f°r
*•’ b”tter'honey, more fat cattle, horses and good »<
indication thnt the dairymen are pros|>erous. The numerous institutions like the tbin*
"tVi",,OreR°n,J The people are happy and contented, with the«
South Prairie Cheese Factory erected in the county have been of inestimnble value dmn
,?1
, rher hot nor‘Old. Come to Tillamook and take a farm is the -
to Tillamook nnd the dairying industry, as the figures given below nt this factory for
for the next tew years, as the land is being taken very fast."
will readily show :
Deputy Grand Master Wilkins further stales that in soliciting members fnr
Amount of milk received....
925,883 lbs.
Ancient Order of United Workman—and he secured over 100 members in a
Amount of hotter fat.........
35.482 lbs.
weeks—he did not meet one person who said he did not have the money toj«"
Cheese manufactured.........
92,979 lbs.
Paid patrons......................
order or could not afford to keep the dues up. Like a good many Oregonians,
$8.528 64
Gross |>er lb. for hotter tat
29.31 cts.
first visit to Tillamook was a surprise to him, and he is elated with the prosper”
Net, dedocting making.... .
25 cts.
ie county, so much so thnt he thinks it is a good place 1o advise membersoft
Long Prairie Creamery returns for 1900 show that the factory was in great fraternal order to go if they Hre looking for n dairy country, and wl*"
receipt of 826.769 pounds of milk, which produced 30.764 pounds of bntter fat and members of Star Lodge, No. 76, A.O.U.W., will welcome them and gi«
faom this was made 35,641 pounds of butter. The butter tat averaged 24.05 the advice and information they may require