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Show WILSON ON DAIRY INDUSTRY Extensive Demand for Products In Newly Settled Regions Development Develop-ment Urgently Needed. "In much of the west cattle raising for beef has long been the principal business," said Secretary Wilson, "but dairying is comparatively new. There is an extensive market, however, for dairy products; and especially in the newly settled regions- it is found that the dairy industry fills such a place in agricultural economy that its development de-velopment is urgently needed. "In addition, a special enterprise has been undertaken with creamery patrons in Iowa, the object being to determine whether it will pay creameries cream-eries to carry on the same sort of work among their own farmer patrons for the sake of getting a better quality qual-ity of cream as material for making butter. Here, also, record keeping has been introduced, along with other improved methods, and the effort is made to discover the leaks that reduce re-duce profits. "In the older states of the north, where dairying is already an established estab-lished industry, the work of the department de-partment outside of advice to individuals individ-uals upon request, consists chiefly in the propagation of cow-testing associations asso-ciations and the improvement of city milk supplies. Cow-testing associations associa-tions are societies for co-operating In the keeping of herd records by engaging en-gaging a man who goes from farm to farm periodically, makes observations, and keeps records for the herds of all the members of the association. By this means records are secured without with-out the trouble or expense involved when each man keeps them for himself; him-self; and In various other ways the co-operation of the farmers is productive produc-tive of profit. The primary objects are to detect and weed out inferior individual cows, and by the use of purebred bulls to perpetuate and intensify in-tensify the valuable characteristics of the cows that are found to be good ones thus raising the average quality qual-ity of the individual cow and the total to-tal productiveness of the herd. There are 85 cow-testing associations now in 20 states, comprising 45,000 cows. "The records of one of these associations asso-ciations show that the profit was doubled after four years' work. For instance, a man with eight cows found, the first month of keeping records, rec-ords, that he was losing five and one-half one-half cents per cow, or 44 cents on his herd for that month. After three months' testing he was making a profit of $32 a month on the herd, and at the end of the year his profits had increased to. $50 a month. This notable not-able increase was due largely to the sale of five of hio poorest cows, and the purchase of as many well-producing ones to take their places. In addition, addi-tion, there were changes made in the methods of feeding which conduced to the result." I |