Show profitable DAIRY IN SOUTH horn home demand supplied for products product and nd soil fortuity fertility built up and maintained prepared by the united states state depart depar ment insist of Airi culture difore than pounds ot of butter was wa made by 93 crea merles in the th scothern So son thern othern states in the year ending december 31 31 1019 1919 thirty of tle 54 cheese factories scattered throughout the mountain mono talo region turned out pounds ot of cheddar cheese silo alloa modern bidden dairy barnia and purebred dairy cows are becoming common fifteen years ago dairying as an ID had been scarcely started iq hi the southern states said a specialist in the dairy dl division vision united states department of agriculture tb the south probably has made more proc ress ft ss in the last 13 years than any other section of the country the in crease in the number of dairy cow co from 14 ka to wa was more than 60 00 per cent ills increase for the en tire united states slates the same earns period was per cent while the indrea increase ie in number ot of cow cows a lm hus been large it la is pointed out ty hy men working operatively cooperatively co with t the lie federal government and the state agricultural college that the improve ment intent in quality has been of even great er Imp importance oriance purebreds have been shipped in every year in large num tiers liers and great interest has been shown in the use of purebred fires there are now 48 bull aso dallons la these states slates the latest census fig ures ores hallabe aa sal ilabe labe show there are I tead ead of purebred dairy cattle in south carolina and aso in virginia dairy development began in the tn southern Bout bern states slates shortly after said one of the specialists but the th was visa slow at first it waa vallis difficult to convince growers to in roy ray territory that there was anything for them in dabi jing but an object lesson was vi as found that finally convinced them on one side of a was a field of cotton that yielded two bales per acre on the abe other side it a held field gme gate half balf a bale the farm that grew two bales to the acre had kept cows row g for five years and the manure manura had bad produced the change farmer fa rulers were taken from miles around to see ee these two fields this little demonstration illustrate the purpose for which dairy cows wert were purebred on a louisiana farm cowe have been dipped reg for without loss in milk recommended in sections vt of the souli not dot to make mahe dairying a major industry but rather to establish a system that would supply the home battle demand tor for dairy products and nt at the soni time build up slid and maintain stall soil fer clity both by supplying manure and by enforcing a proper rotation ro lution of 0 crop this would make pos possible elble the th production of cotton and other staple crops at greater profit this was the dim aim of the lie southern dairy eaten e siou work tile lie first large scale exter extension project attempted abich was started under the direction of the dairy III dl vision of the department of agrical Agri cul ure ture l in 1006 and carried forward cooperatively by tile the department and tile state agricultural colleges one of the first things correct corrected es oas as the he poor feeding feel lne met methods hodg cot oni ed aneal and hulls bulls formed ills basis of the lie raton ration farmers bud nl ni of balanced bala rations allou were few in number anti and it was not known generally that they could cold bo built liv by farni farm labor A few silos were erected in as dern deenon ontra ions end and the idea tea begun began to grow slowly in popularity ul tile the value of 0 silage compared weh corton sped bulls hull was very verj striking eien een in the das when hulls faults were mere only 4 or 5 a ton on A dairy tarn farm beat nit miss where 40 toni of belago were ere led fed instead of cottonseed hulls bullas a t saing of for the ili ter froin ro iii it a local stand standpoint polut one ile of the he federal agents of 0 the dairy division ib llie esl bi C tf cf f in I 1 lie die bolia boli A so it 11 distill districts ts of pi han been tile one of tile llie greatest ni anyone jtb the ile pon desicy of fart danners ners in luu 1913 in southern slid and who wall wa later to see sec tile ilia calange irria tight hy by I 1 lite in dury dalry cor UK mill ill beree agree hint en thus thuda aini ru for Is 1 well founded ll 11 a region that war wn floundering inq fa ans ise n vitis of it a livelihood now brained to a roin itry it in alfi bleh till ali innar site me lile wilk foa fo avi illions nod and oilier this ilia lt le kant i lo I mia nit miia wl |