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Title: Fresno County, Cal
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fresno Co., Cal. Chamber of commerce. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Fresno?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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bundantly and cheaply as in the San Joaquin Valley. Alfalfais pre-eminently a cow feed, and the butter produced from themilk of alfalfa-fed cows, if skillfully and scientifically han-dled, produces a texture and a flavor that cannot be surpassed.In proof of this we can point with pride to the fact that thefirst premiums of the State Fair at Sacramento have repeat-edly come to Fresno, It is predicted that within the next fiveyears every acre of alfalfa in the San Joaquin Valley will becovered with dairy cows, and that experienced dairymen fromall over the country will come here to settle. Cows can herebe run on green posture the year around. We can here pro- —21 — duce a pound of butter for less than half what it can be pro*duced in Illinois, Iowa or Wisconsin. California imports an-nually from the East about 1,500,000 pounds of butter. Thatis something else to think over. Mr. Murphy, manager of the Danish Creamery, states thattheir patrons ar* milking about three hundred cows. The
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Mammoth Blackberries—22— average amount of money paid for butter fat is $55.00 to $60.00per cow annually. This is exclusive of the value of the calfand the skim milk. The following is a letter from a Fresno County dairyman;I milked last year an average of forty-three cows per month;sold during that time butter fat to the amount of $55.93 pereach cow; also raised and sold calves and hogs to the amountof $19.71 per each cow, making the total earnings of each cowfor the year, $76.65. Numerous statements show that the above returns are aboutthe average in Fresno. There are numbers of statementsthat run very much higher than these, but it is sufficient tobe able to say that in Fresno County the average return fromone cow is $55.00 to $60.00 for butter fat, and $18.00 to $20.00for calf and skim milk, or $75.00 to $80.00 total annual grossyield from ONE COW AND ONE ACRE OF LAND. These are not fancy figures. They are being realized inFresno County right along. The feed upon which this is

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