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Show DAIRYMEN MUST MOVE GUICK Three Things Menace Industry: Inefficient Inef-ficient Cow, Antiquated Methods and Ignorance of Public. (Hy KrilKNK IWVUNl'OllT. lllini.Ls Agricultural Ag-ricultural (.'oIlcKt'.) A good deal is going to happen iu dairying within the next 25 years. Dairy husbandry represents the most intensive form of agriculture practised on this side of the water. We have been so busy about other things that we have not yet settled down to the development of the industry in this country. 1 think the individual dairyman dairy-man has his attention too exclusively on his personal affairs, and too little upon the industry he represents. When 1 see a man advocating a system of buying cows Instead of feeding them I know that he is looking at it purely from the individual standpoint, lie knows, or ought to know that no business can thrive on that basis. What you need to do and what we all need to do and do it quickly is to attend to those things that will establish es-tablish the dairy business as a whole upon a solid basis. There are three things that today menace the prosperity of the dairy I business: First, the inefficient cow; A Good Dairy Cow. get rid of her. Second, antiquated, unsanitary methods; and third, the general public, our consumers, do not realize as they ought the food value of dairy products. How do milk, butter but-ter or cheese compare in the bet markets as a food product value for value with the other products of this country? No comparison! What we need is to have three campaigns cam-paigns of education one among ourselves our-selves for better cows, another among ourselves for better methods in order to make a better product, and another among the consumers to help them realize what dairy products are really worth. It is up to the dairymen to educate both themselves and the general pub-, lie and I believe they can do it. We must look a long way ahead. There are some things that must be done now for the improvement of dairying 20 years from now. |