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good condition all during the summer months, until late in the fall. Alfalfa 

 is being raised in nearly all sections of the state, and the dairymen find by 

 experience that this is a very valuable roughage feed and cheap in cost. 



The number of flour and grist mills is gradually increasing and the by- 

 products from these, such as are used for the dairy cow, are a great 

 deal easier to obtain than they were a few years ago. The demand for 

 dairy products is very strong the year round and there is no 

 There Is state in the Union in which the market on dairy products is 

 Ever a Good so well maintained. In nearly all towns milk retails at from 

 Market. seven to tef. cents a quart and the demand is very great. In 



the year 1912, five million pounds of butter and about the 

 same amount of cheese were shipped into the state. Taking in consideration 

 the growing population and the fact that Oregon, Idaho, and other neigh- 

 boring states cannot produce the amount of dairy products consumed, one 

 can readily understand why tlie markets are so well established. At the 



In the Dairy Country. 



present time there are thirty creameries in operation in ^Montana and only 

 one cheese factor}-. These all find a ready market for their products at a 

 price ranging from three to six cents above the eastern markets. At the 

 prices paid by these creameries for butter fat the past three or four years, 

 the profits on the right kind of dairying surely have been very good. The 

 price for butter fat ranges from, twenty-seven cents in the summer to as 

 high as forty cents during the winter. 



Montana needs better dairy cows, and people from all over the state 

 are constantly inquiring where such cows may be purchased and circulars 

 from eastern breeders would be very much appreciated., '\\'ithin the past 



six months about twenty-five cars of good 'grade cows' have < 

 More Good been shipped into the state, purchased in the east by Montana 

 Dairy-Cows people. Local banks and biisiness men are aiding the farmers 

 Are Needed, in buying better dairy cows. At a bankers' meeting recently 



held in Helena, the bankers, seeing the great opportunities for 

 the dairy farmers, passed a resolution to assi.st them in buying cows and 

 building creameries. 



— God made Montana with a smile. 



