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Dairying

History of San Luis Obispo County Notes:

The products of the dairies in San Luis Obispo County rank second in value to that of wheat, and in the _________________
economy of resources, the adaptation of the country and devoting it to its best purposes, given more _________________
permanent employment and necessitating and encouraging better cultivation and care of land, makes
dairying the interest of paramount importance. As the county was proven the best for grazing in the State _________________
when cattle were grown for beef, hides, tallow, and horns alone, the same qualities render it, par _________________
excellence, the best dairying county of a more advanced period. San Luis Obispo was once in derision called _________________
the great “cow county” of California, and now it may boast of the title.
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Throughout the county are a great many prosperous homes, made so by the profits of dairy. The farmers of _________________
the coast region may gladly welcome home the cows. With but little capital other than industry, skill and
care, they have become wealthy from the manufacture of butter and cheese, and the production of other _________________
marketable articles incidentally resulting therefrom, as cattle, port, lard, poultry, etc. The abundant and _________________
nutritious grasses, for which this country was early celebrated, are supplemented by genial climate, which
permits cattle to remain unhoused throughout the year, therefore avoiding the expense to which the _________________
dairymen of the East and Europe, are subject. The equable climate is also very favorable to the manufacture _________________
and keeping of butter and cheese, and the breezes of the ocean bring with them health and vigor to man _________________
and beast….
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From three of the principal dairies of the Steele Brothers, during the year of 1882, there was produced _________________
262,715 pounds of cheese, valued at twelve and one-half cents per pound at the dairy. The number of cows
at each dairy averaged about 150, or 450 at the three; and about ninety large hogs were fattened from the _________________
milk, with a slight addition of other food … _________________

Mr. J. C. McFerson, of Cambria, in May 188 made the following estimates: — ________________

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