Holsteins for Watauga
Mr. J.B. Horton of Vilas will leave for Wisconsin the later
part of this month, where from the famous herds of Holstein cattle in that
State, he will select 60 head of choice yearling heifers which will be paid for
by the stock-holders in the Cove Creek and New River cheese factories.
This particular strain of cattle is considered the best as
milk producers and, as cheese making is one of Watauga’s chief industries, the
patrons of the factories named, at least, are determined to breed up their
herds to perfection. Watauga now boasts of a cheese factory with the greatest
output of any south of Philadelphia, which is the Cove Creek Co-Operative, and
it might yet be termed in its infancy. Last year this plant alone paid out to
its patrons for milk in round numbers $15,000, which, we are told, was farm
more than the price of the cattle put on the beef market from the same section
during the past year. Mr. Asa Wilson of the Silverstone factory has a thoroughbred
herd of Holsteins and Mr. John Sherrill of Beaver Dam also has a number added
to his herd, and with this bunch of select Holsteins being imported into
Watauga, it will add much to this cattle-raising industry, as well as dairying
purposes, for both of which our county is now famous.
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