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Creameries and Dairying in Nebraska. What has been done and what may be done.
Omaha, Nebraska: Union Pacific R’y Co.’s Land Department; Herald Printing House, 1883. 8vo, pictorial green wrappers. [3], 16 pp., numerous b&w illus. This scarce pamphlet on the state of the dairy industry in Nebraska provides a “sketch of the creameries of the State, and those which have been built in the Platte valley during the year…to show the profitable working of the system to the manufacturer, and the demand for an increase of butter and cheese factories.” Intended to promote the sale of Union Pacific Railway lands, the text offers an overview of the dairy industry and provides detailed profiles of such companies as companies as The Nebraska Creamery Association (Fremont, Nebraska); Schuyler Creamery, Colfax County; Columbus Creamery; Gibbon Creamery (Buffalo County); Beatrice Creamery; and West Point Creamery (whose profile also features an account of the company’s bulls and cows). Also covered are such matters as Milk Condensing; What is the Best Feed?; Feedings; What is the Best Dairy Cow?; Swiss Daries, and so forth. Several illustrations picture cows and give their names (Queen Rosie, “Prince of Edam,” etc.), as well as their owners, origin, price, etc. The back-cover features an illustration of Nebraska Creamery in Fremont, showing horse-drawn carriages picking up the milk and cream for delivery. The closing pages include estimates of acreage in various Nebraska counties where there is cheap land “especially adapted to sheep and live stock growing.” It is noted that these lands are “well supplied with nutritious grasses, convenient to Railroads, Markets, and are surrounded by and intermixed with some of the richest agricultural lands in the west.” Interested parties are encouraged to write the Union Pacific Railway Co.’s Land Dept. for free information. Scarce. OCLC records only two copies, at the Denver Public Library and Wisconsin Historical Society. CONDITION: Light wear and chipping to covers, contents quite clean.
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