A GREAT MONEY MAKING INDUSTRY FEEDING 

 CATTLE ON YUMA VALLEY ALFALFA 



On Yuma Valley and other Yuma project lands there are about 

 two thousand dairy cattle. From the various daries the local demand 

 for milk in Yuma and surrounding country is supplied. The Southern 

 Pacific Railroad Company and its dining car service is supplied on the 

 Yuma division from Gila Bend to Indio. The Yuma Ice Company's 

 dairy in Yuma takes all of the milk and cream that is not sold direct 



to consumers. This dairy has a capacity of 2500 pounds of butter per 

 day. It could use the milk and cream from a largely increased 

 number of cows. There are some fine herds of dairy cows in the 

 Yuma country. Holsteins, Jerseys and Herafords. At no place in 

 the country can the dairyman find a better opening than in Yuma 

 and its adjacent farm land. Abundant feed, equitable climate, plenty 

 of water, a good market for the product all combine to make condi- 

 tions ideal. 



Fattening beef cattle for the market of Yuma Valley alfalfa and 

 other feeds has become a staple and profitable industry. During the 

 winter of 1914-1915 more than 4000 head of feeders were brought 

 into the Yuma Valley to fatten on the richest alfalfa in the world. 

 It is a fact that the alfalfa grown in the Yuma Valley has a much 

 larger proportion of fattening properties than alfalfa grown in a 

 damp climate. It is extremely rich in the elements which make beef 

 and butter. 



