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are better, and 10 per cent, on that account can be 

 added with safety. 



In dairying a great deal depends on the climate, and 

 it should be neither too hot nor too cold for the greatest 

 success at the business. Another great desideratum is 

 the water. Pure living streams, flowing springs, are 

 almost indispensable to good butter making. In the 

 West the mild air and thousands of pure gushing 

 streams furnish multitudes of natural butter- and cheese- 

 ranches. The melting snows not only keep the waters 

 cool, but the snow, air, and cool nights make the milk- 

 houses a paradise for dairy-maids. Ice can be bought as 

 cheap if not cheaper than in the East, and every spring- 

 house has its water-power to do the churning while the 

 milk-maid sings her dairy-songs. Our gravelly soil, 

 under the influence of our continued dry climate, gives 

 the best cellars imaginable, the sides, without cost of 

 stone walls, drying and hardening like cement. 



Dr. Latham, speaking of the trans-Missouri country 

 as a dairy-land, said : " Every stream in the trans-Mis- 

 souri country is adapted to butter and cheese making. 

 There is an unlimited market along the lines of our 

 great railways, in our new settlements, in the great mining 

 districts, which are scattered in the Rocky Mountains 

 for one thousand miles north and south and nine hun- 

 dred miles east and west, and at all our military posts. 

 Besides our home demand we have a demand on the 

 Pacific Coast. New York and Ohio annually furnish 

 large quantities of both butter and cheese to the Pacfic 

 Slope. The dairy product of this country would add 

 the transportation from those States to its value here. 



