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Show WILSON ON DAIRY INDUSTRY Extanalve Demand for Product In Newly Sottled Region Development Develop-ment Urgently Needed. "In much of the west cuttle raising for beef ha lung been the principal business," satd Secretary WilHon, "but dairying 1h comparatively new. There Is an extensive market, however, for dairy product; 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 uncial enterprise has been undertaken with creamery patrons in Iowa, the object being to determine whether it will pay cream-cries cream-cries 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 os material for making butter. Here, also, record keeping Las 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 estah-Utihed estah-Utihed 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 ore 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. Ily 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 ol purebred' bulls to perpetuate and Intensify In-tensify the valuable characteristics ol the cows that aro 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 t(5 cow-testing associations now in 20 states, comprising 43.000 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 cow found, the tlrst month of keeping records, rec-ords, that lie was losing five and one-half one-half cents per cow, or 44 cents on Ilia herd for that month. After three months' testing he was making a profit of $:!2 a month on the herd, and at the end of the year his profits had Increased to $30 a month. This not able increase was due largely to the sale of five of hla poorest cows, and the purchase of as many wcll-produc Ing ones to take their places. In addi tlou, there were changes made in tin methods of feeding which conduced U the result." |
