Show one tom town that is free from debt by illy T P kuhre dairy specialist international harvester company the literary digest haa has discovered a town and community where nobody ils its in debt where dairying i a t acing thia this town Is bloomfield it has a laton of 1431 according to the last census A fine creamery is 1 lor located eted in Bloom d the merchants treed freed from the nightmare of 01 old debts and bad abts have hal e thrown asay a ay their old books and have 0 o cut their prices that far from business leaving leming bloomfield budress Is 13 coming to it from bearby towns contented cows and contented people apke a good community with the tile importance ot of the dairy industry and the chance for greatly augmented farm incomes through channel the profit spotlight tails falls in the scheme of diversified dairy farming centered around its trading centers ushering usher lne in and reflecting prosperity and happiness all along the way largely responsible for the dairy business has been te work of the dairy herd improvement preaching and practicing the gospel story ot of breed breeding inq feeding and weeding eed in operation cooperation co with the U S department of agriculture these associations ciati clat ions ons ire are carrying on extensive tests to prove to the adry farmer the black side of the ledger may be kept not only permanently but also at its maxinem in 1893 1892 a woman in denmark orliff aad the first herd improvement l as which is now an international institution and to vila woman the adne ove owe largely thel r 3 success U acce sa as a successful delry country well do I 1 remember the deiy poor conditions 1 li 11 1 der ark when 1 I was 23 a boy during the var war with germany which finally terminated in 64 resulting in irk denmark ceding to germany the best part of her territory ard besides the she was to pay a large indemnity to the german crown or cyr lose the balance of her holdings denmark reached its lowest ebb in 18 1878 S her markets were ere closed floods droutha epidemics among cattle and plagues ct of all kinds swept the country there seemed no escape from the greater powers denmark was crushed financially finan cally mentally and but through it all she discovered that it was to muk and the result wad was that within a short abort p of sears dea mark ascended from rom one of the tte poorest nations en on the globe to one of the most successful considering hir hi r size rind dermark today is the richest country per capita in the ord world and the delry row did it in america we work for the dollar and pay but little attention to what the dollar bus for us in denmark the dane danes work not for the dollar but for the purchasing power of 0 that collar dollar you may have the idea that the danish farmers cooperate to fix prices but this is not a fact they the are organized in order to stabilize the production and to enable them to cheapen production to raise the standard of quality and to secure thu the very best price which the markets arc are paying for high quality product rot ro to hold the goods g for their own price regardless of quality our resent res cn chautauqua system originated in denmark as a means of teaching dairy farrien in t f its people |