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Show COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PLACES SHI ALL BREEDER ON SAME BASIS HELD BY LARGER -A. Z, " i 1 m i irrrm , The Kind of Dairy Cows That a bmall Farmer Can Be Proud Of. " cow that most nearly meets the requirements, re-quirements, with the hope that when her production records show up they will be so good that other Frenchmen will want other cows like her. Big Pure-Bred Market at Home. But after all, the big market for pure-bred animals is at home. The same facts that apply to foreign markets mar-kets ought to apply to beginners in this country. Take the man who has been operating a dairy farm with grade cows. Let him have a pure-bred that not only looks better than any cow he ever owned before but also produces pro-duces better, and he is pretty certain to start' substituting pure-breds for tr.s grades. If he gets a poor producer, of course, he is likely to make up his mind that "the pure-bred business is mostly bunk." Community organization organiza-tion tends to see to it that the beginner begin-ner gets a good producer, which, in turn, tends to make him a steady customer cus-tomer for pure-bred cows until he has placed his herd on a pure-bred basis. Now that he can afford ro do it, the small farmer should give himself the pleasure and the actual benefit of having dairy animals that he can be enthusiastic over. "You never sot a man," says one of the government's dairy experts, "just boiling over with enthusiasm about grade cows. The grade-cow man may think about getting up early in the morning to work with his cows, but the pure-bred man is perfectly will ing to stay up all night with them.'' In all of this discussion the good pure bred is understood, and not a scrub pure-bred, for there are some of that kind. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Time was and not so long ago when the small farmer could not afford af-ford to breed purebred animals. The time has come just now, perhaps per-haps when the small farmer can hardly hard-ly afford not to breed purebred animals, ani-mals, and at least he should use pure- j bred sires. j That is particularly true if his line uf live stock is cows and, more particularly, partic-ularly, if they are dairy cows, According Accord-ing to men in the United States department de-partment of agriculture who have given giv-en their lives to the study of dairy farming. What has brought about the change? Principally, community organization. The small farmer who has to operate alone and unaided as practically all of them did ten years ago has a rocky road if he aspires to pure-bred stock. Now the whole situation is changed, or is rapidly changing. The small farmer does not stand alone, and he has all kinds of aids. There, to start with, is the county agent, ready to bring the accumulation of expert knowledge to bear on the problems of the small farmer. There is the county farm bureau, perhaps. There is the cow.testing association. There is the co-operative bull association. There are enough things, if they are used, to pull the community together and make it possible for the smaller scale breeder breed-er to enjoy many of the advantages formerly obtained only by the largest scale breeder. A Land of Pure-Breds. 'Why not," inquire the dairy experts or the department of agriculture, "make the United States a pure-bred country, put it in the mind of the world as a pure-bred country?" People Peo-ple do not think of it that way now. Try it out with yourself. You think of the Island of Jersey, say, as simply a breeding ground for pure Jersey cows, of Scotland as the top notch in Aberdeen-Angus cattle, of Clydesdale horses, even of Collie dogs. Your picture pic-ture of England is likely to be one of pure-bred Herefords or Shorthorns. And yon have a sort of feeling of reverence rev-erence toward them. Do you think of America, from a live-stock standpoint, in that way? Of course not. You think of it as a meat-producing meat-producing country, a range country, a grade-cattle country. Both estimates are, in a manner, correct. cor-rect. But, to the individual farmer on the Island of Jersey or in the white-face white-face country of England or the black-cattle black-cattle country of Scotland, the matter of having his animals pure bred is a matter of doing what everybody else Is doing. It is easier or, to say the least, just as easy to do it as not to do it. Until just now that condition never existed in the United States ; it does exist now. Communities have organized organ-ized and are organizing still more closely. Breeding associations are being be-ing formed with secretaries who can give help in keeping the records of all animals straight one of the things with which the small farmer operating operat-ing alone has greatest difficulty. When a community organizes and starts raising rais-ing pure-bred stock of any kind it brings a market for that kind of stock to the door of every farmer in the community. com-munity. The man who operating alone, could not have sold a pure-bred animal ani-mal for a dollar more than he could have got for a good grade animal can get the worth of every animal he raises under the community system. Opportunity Is Here. America has the opportunity just now to develop as a great breeding Institution. In-stitution. South America wants purebred pure-bred "stuff." As an indication of how active the want is, Argentina recently appropriated $100,000 to encourage the Importation of pure-breds.. If the United States gets any considerable portion of the business in South America, Amer-ica, department experts say, it must be because American animals compete successfully on final test with animals ani-mals from anywhere else in the world. They see no trouble in doing that wltn dairy cattle where production is the test. The thing to be done Is to give the South Americans what they want In dairy cattle. There is likely, also, to be a pretty big market in France for American pure-bred dairy cows. The problem of supplying the demand is somewhat'dif-ferent somewhat'dif-ferent from the South American problem. prob-lem. France wants a general-purpose cow, while the United States is the home of the specialized cow. The thing that is to be done In that case In to irivA TTrunpo tho cmoHaljpri dnlrv |
