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wbicli is the best— the onf-tthd-out co¬ 
operative principle of the first plan, the 
partial co-operation of the second, or I lie 
out-and-out non-co-operation of the third 
plan. The out-and-out co-operative An¬ 
chor Cheese Factory has sold the March 
pressings, and has closed the accounts of 
that, month, by paying over what was 
found to bo duo to the inilk-growor, which 
was an average per hundred pounds of 
milk of 85 cents; also April, 75 cents; 
May, 75 cents. Mr. Harshmnu, upon 
data, calculates that June will close at an 
average price per hundred pounds of milk 
of 80 cents; July, 80 cents; August, 00 
cents; September, $1.00; October, $1.35; 
November, $1.35; December, $1.36; Jan- 
nary, $1.25; February, $1.05; ycur’s aver¬ 
age, say $1.01$ per hundred pounds uf 
milk, and the whey returned. Mr, Ifarsh- 
man says that his milk-growing customers 
arc increasing their cows under the inllu- 
etico of these prices. Why not? It is 
nearly all alfalfa milk. An acre here in 
alfalfa yields about eight times as much 
feed as an acre in the East yields of dairy 
food- Alfalfa is so tender, digestible hud 
nutritious, that it stimulates the How of 
milk, fed in the form of hay, only less 
excessively than when fed green. More¬ 
over, one half of the Eastern yield of one- 
eighth as much as our yield of dairy feed 
per acre is fed in winter, merely to keep 
the cows alive. Our eight times their 
yield of dairy feed keeps up the flow of 
milk from January to January. Our cheese 
factories and creameries are incessantly 
operating all through Summer, Autumn, 
U inter aud Spring. Mr. Harshmnu says 
that the dauy seuson in the Western 
Reserve opens about the middle of April 
and closes about the middle of Ootobor. 
Here, he is delighted to find that the 
dairy season opens and closes on the first 
day of Juuunry. In point of fact, the 
ilairy season never closes in Southern 
California, and, of course, never opens. 
Mr. Ilursbman declares that this is, in all 
respects, a vastly better dairy region than 
to© \\ eBtorn Reserve. 
TUI! WAl.KP.ll CHEESE FAUTOUY. 
Two miles east of Compton, at Say tier’s 
cross-roads, is Mr. Walker's choose fac 
torv. His factory cusl about $500. Helms 
in the choose curing room about five tons of 
ten and thirty-pounders. It. is daily in 
creasing in value, lmfl! from ago and a 
stiffening of the markets. Shelved cheese 
is idle, but it draws as loaned money. It 
is one of the few things that cun keep up 
with a California mortgage. Mr, Walker 
declares that one square mile around his 
faultily, to alfalfa, Would run a lively 
cheese factory. 
Tin: NEWEST AND OIIKU'I.ST OUBEHI! KUrrOIIV. 
yesterday was the lutilli day since the 
last board was nailed on Mr. .las. Jf. 
< ocke s choose factory, two miles south of 
Downey City, and just cast of Los Nietos 
College. Mr. (!. is of Virginia (inequity, 
and of Missouri nativity. I,earned to make 
cbeeso in San Luis Obispo. One of I,ho 
cheese dairymen ol' San Liub OUlflpo 
visited Lus Angelos a few years ago, with 
tin eye to a dairy, lie returned with 
maledictions upon tlm mun so idiotic ns to 
intimate that this land of the sun is fit. for 
a cheeso factory. Mr. O. hoard him, 
doubted, camo, saw, built a $250 factory, 
made the first, choose ton days ago. 
Shelves now loaded with cream Cheese, 
while all around is still the land of the 
sun, of the myrtle, the oraugo and the 
pomegranate. Mr C. bought a hand¬ 
somely improved homestead nt $100 per 
uerw, and is wrapt up iu his bargain, with 
Urn imcompammontu of orchards, vines, 
perennially blooming shrubs and trees, a 
stylish cottage, and now a cheeso factory. 
cBBitsE TAoroav and a ooimrxms setting.’ 
Handsome homos dot the rich country 
around tins cheoBe factory of ten days. 
Respectively, in the yards, gardens, 
truck patches, fluids, ore hards, vineyards, 
groves, tiro oleanders, jasmine, popinac, 
heliotropes, geraniums, fuchsias, cullu- 
lilies, rose trees, myrtle trees, turnips, 
carrots, beets, peanuts, artichokes, watei- 
niolouB, musk-melons, squashes, pump¬ 
kins, sweet and Irish potatoes, sugar 
beets, mangels, sugar cane, sorghum, 
barley, wheat, rye, buckwheat, Indian 
corn, oats, hops, flax, castor-bean, alfalfa, 
tomatoes, cabbages, cauliflower, brbccoli, 
lettuce, onions, colory, cuciiiribors, popper, 
salsify, beans, pons, egg plants, (ho peach, 
apple, pear, apricot, noctarinu, quiuce, 
currants, blackberries, gooseberries, rasp¬ 
berries, strawberries, English and black 
walnuts, pecans, Spanish and Italian 
raisin, table and wine grapes, almonds, 
figs, guavas, oranges, bananas, and all 
other Boil products common to (ho tompe- 
rulo zone and to the semi-tropics; and, 
lastly, comes the ohouso factory. 
FKOFITS OF THE OJI IS USE FACTORY. 
"How, Mr. C., will your butuhlo, 
homely choose factory nittko headway 
among such variety and splendor of agri¬ 
culture, horticulture, and pomocujturo ? " 
“ By profits," Mr. G. replies. “ Much 
around hero is more show than profit. 
For tbo slow sixpence there, hero the 
eho.esc factory anil the milk-grower win 
the nimble shilling. For bur nimble 
shilbug thoir best set-oil' is a slow shilling, 
There is noighhor DiHtmiko, whoso forty 
acres in corn, hurley and other fluid crops 
brought him only $400 gross last year, on 
account Of low pricoa. Ho says, in'alfalfa, 
the hind will Keep a milk cow to (ho acre 
1 lold him 1 would pay him $0 an acre for 
all mil'll yield of alfalfa, mid save him 
further troublu ami oxpniimi. ISul suppose 
lie Iiuh a cow to the acre of alfalfa, uml 
lets mo turn hie milk into olinoae. Il he 
lift© good cows, ami manage them properly, 
lie cun rely on an average of at Ioast two 
gallons per cow per day, for throe hundred 
days m the year; or six hundred gallon: 
or mill; per cow or pur aero; or six 
hli I id rod pounds of iiIii-oho per cow or per 
aero per annum. I will malm tlm chooso 
for him nt two conts a pound, lie will 
average, year llimiigh, at least ton Ceuta a 
pound on (lie l-usia of weights, green. Il 
is plain that, tlm cheeso product of Mr. 
DitUlinko's acre will bring $00, of which he 
will got $48. and the cheese maker $12." 
Mr. Dismuko’s land is no bettor Hum that 
of lii.s neighbors. The Hon. J. W. Ven¬ 
able, on similar land, in an adjacent 
neighbourhood, verified the above calcula¬ 
tions with his herd of dairy cows. Mr 
Cocke bought into the Dimnuke neighbor¬ 
hood last November, at $100 per n* re. 
Cheese fiotohv a no milk-showers' colony. 
In reply to inquiries on this subject, it is 
suggested that intending coloni-t, need 
not buy the high priced, improved dairy 
lands, because unimproved, equally 
adapted, and, of cour-o, lower priced 
lands, in largo tracts, may bo bought a 
few rniloB distant from the Dismuke neigh¬ 
bourhood. Here, dairy colonies, preceded 
few days by the cheap rhr. «• factory, 
built by one of the colony in the centre of 
tlm colony tract, may si-tMe dow n around 
the factory, and, if ho fortunate as to have 
cows to begin with, may, on wild grass, 
within a day begin to have nu income. 
Alfalfa peed sown in February will afford 
threo or four mowings (ho first year, and, 
thereafter, from seven to eight mowings 
annually, of one and a half tons per 
mowing, and threo months' winter grazing 
besides. Gradually the colonists may 
economically copy the beautiful, varied 
and valuable agricultural, poinoeultimd, 
horticultural and floricultunil develop¬ 
ments in the Dismuka anil other neigh¬ 
borhoods of tlm alfalfa or dairy bells. 
visiting MtLK-oaowtns, 
Agriculturally engaged, I naturally take 
a lively interest in tlm dairy industry, and 
frequently visit those engaged in dairying. 
Called yesterday at the dairy of John 
McLaughlin, a prominent grower uf rnilk 
fur tlm cheese factory. Mr McLaughlin, 
in the Autumn of 1875, at his homo iu 
Armstrong County. Pennsylvania, bor¬ 
rowed $300 to bring himself and family to 
Lob Angulos. Ilis friends said, " Good¬ 
bye, Mo. I Sorry to see you starting to 
California, and to ruin I" "To min 1, 
myself, thought 1 had come," says Me. 
Ou reaching Lo* Angeles, money all 
spent, a large family of small children, 
land high, credit sales one to two per 
cent, a month, and hiring out n precarious 
reliance for the suppml of a largo family 
by the wages of one person Los Angeles 
acumcil a Faradisn fur the rich, bill a mck 
for the poor. As "Goodbye, Me.!” 
began to hail him as a dismal dime, and 
" Horry to see you starling (o California, 
ami lo min!’’ began to iriuoll him ns a 
"Mime Mono Tnltel ITplinnxiu,’ Me- 
Laughlin happened Oil flic licit J, S, 
HlilUNim, I’resident of Hie Los Angeles 
Connly Uaiili, and a perfect h( ranger. 
Me. says “He put me on this place, 
whom von see nm to-day; let mu have 
lioUSO, barn, stables, cub, plows, Iiiimaiws, 
mower, wagon, horses, bariies*, dairy 
cows, provisions, and money, In farm and 
to dillry on sharcH, ami lo work my way 
into a pari ownership of this farm ami all 
IIml is on il, 1 mn now half owner of 
a large part, expect fo bo half owner of 
all, and liiially' to bo solo owner of the 
whole of tlm dairy band fu fifty cows, and 
almost as many more stock cattle, mostly 
half Jciseys; sole owner of olio half of 
this valuable ranch and its luniishmeut.s 
