Show he E DAIRY X-q X I I DAIRYING MUST BE SPEEDED UP MORE Scientists Facing Several Serious Serious Se Se- Serious rious Economic Problems By K L. L HATCH A Agricultural ExtensIon Extension Exten Exten- sion Service University Un or of Wisconsin Dairying Is a n business a n bf big and a n serious business both for the producer pro pro- ducer and the manufacturer The dairy farmer Is Just awakening to the fact that he lie Is a n business man employing both capital and la labor or on onno onno onno no mean menn scale Dairy manufacturers are realizing ns as never before that their problem Is one of producing an article that will please the trade anti and stimulate through quality Its own demand These are the big and vital problems that the lie dairy scientists must face are face are now facing They are economic problems and must be he faced ace with facts not now obtainable Everywhere ere In experiment station literature do we find feed costs of ot milk production but rarely do we find labor In- In bor costs or dry cow costs or depreciated depreciated depre depre- elated herd costs or bull costs or capital capItal cap cap- ital charges such as os Interest taxes I I Insurance and depreciation which I submit as ns the principal costs of or milk production on the date up-to-date dairy farm On the manufacturing side we are equally weak We Ve continue to use I small and wholly Inefficient plants Neither have we studied the tho I. I demands of ot the consumer who makes our market et nor have we made much effort to produce what will especially appeal to his tastes And yet every other business of national na nn na- na scope be It ever so small has done all these things S anti oncI for tor the most part borne Its own costs A great eat dairy Industry with nationally endowed endowed endowed en en- dowed research laboratories should do doI these same things must things must do them for tor forthe forthe I the sake of the Industry |