Show YAL man baw amit on 0 Is PIS V 10 1 Is V efto 1 aw 0 EA INA 1 mw im IN ow ra alis M M IRI AV in ow AW x P pl Z 3 kra a dmd V i q ILI av A imma or owe Y jorfor al 7 VOW go ea A 41 na wr MM I 1 during f the last twelve months the american com co helped her master make mahe three and a half billion bil ito n dollars old bossy is is a regular gold mine when given proper treatment treat men t 4 by ROBERT H MOULTON HE value of the products of the american dairy cow is greater than the value of all the metallic minerals produced such as gold silver copper lead zinc pig iron etc it Is also larger than the total value of the nonmetallic minerals iia namely niely bl bituminous tu coal pennsylvania anthracite th petroleum natural gas gag brick clay and cement milk production of tile the united states for 1915 was gallons or an average production of gallons per cow coi this production Is equivalent to about gallons per capita population of the country at an average price of 20 cents per gallon the years production of milk Is valued at about to the farmers on january 1 1910 there were estimated to be dairy cows in the united states valued approximately at per head or an aggregate grand total valuation of for all cows the united states exported pounds of butter valued at SO during 1916 1915 americans are great consumers of butter and fearly more than 1800 OW pounds Is manufactured in this country a large proportion of which Is made at the farm home the rural cream eries have proved a big factor in farming farr ning business and form the center of marketing operations the valuation of butter made in factories approximated more than last year while this season gives ches ev every r indication of reaching the mark mar farmers are finding that co opera tive effort in the manufacture of butter obtain j a higher market tor for them the loss losa made in butter on farms has been tremendous men dous dalry dairy ex experts perty by actual investigations calculate that of the annual product on the basis of 30 80 cents per pound for butter at the local market the annual loss averages between two and five cents per pou pound lourid rid or from to due to the careless methods employed on the average farm farin this great item of loss would save enough in a year almost to buy a moderate priced automobile for every farmer not today owning one the increased high cost of dairy feeds has lias de banded that tile the dairy farmer become a specialist in cow rations the profitable production of milk on n a dairy farm involves two very difficult problems the for formation mailon of a herd that will give in the milk pall liberal returns tor for the cost of feed and care and caring for the milk mileto to keep it in the best marketable condition it was found several years that two or three cows might be large prod producers acers ahil e the reni remainder of a herdon herd of a dozen cows would possibly fall to give sufficient milk to pay their board bill this fact has caused aused the organization of the community cow testing associations ciati clat ons ions in various parts of the country this work having fis as its object the calculation of the indi deual cows production by the aldef aid ot the babcock cock tating apparatus modern dairymen place their cows on record giving due credit for butte butterfat produced this work has built up one ot of the highest 1 specialized features feature of present day farming fanali ing n g A great and intricate problem tf ia holved wol ved la in A supplying cities with milk and in meeting the growing demands of such centers with pure milk cht cago alone consumes quarts of milk annually inu ally while thousands of cans of condensed m ejk and pasteurized milk are used for breakfast milk Is shipped from farms as far Rs as miles away reaching the city in time for breakfast the next morning because of the immense demand for or milk tile the necessity essIt of having it of the highest quality and the need neet for lin an economical method of col collection lection and distribution great milk companies were formed several years ago which erected milk collecting stations in illinois and adjoining states along the railroads where milk Is received for shipment the milk thuei received direct from the farmers Is handled in the best possible manner shipped in 40 quart cans by the carload the milk one of the common phases of all railroads connecting with a large american city today the task of supplying great treat cities with milk has become a highly specialized specialised industry the process of gathering transporting and distributing the fresh milk supply of a large city Is one of the complex tasks confronting those who provide the count rys dally daily food the entire milk production of the country must be cared for every day fresh milk esthe Is the only product that must quickly come to the consumer it cannot be stored when there Is a flood of it and carried over until there Is a phora phort age although modern refrigeration has served to solve a part of this problem supply must meet tomorrows demand when one realizes that the city of chicago must have pounds of milk dally it Is easily understood that prompt conversion of tills this product into money Is no small task the changes in the geographic distribution of the population of the united states in the centers of agricultural production and in the methods of transportation have had a marked influence on the localization of tile the dairy industry in early days the dairy former farmer supplied demands within a restricted area but the development of railroads and refrigeration has had considerable effect on the character of the industry in its centralization milk has been a food mid and drink for young and old ever since prehistoric times and the reason for this Is that milk is one of the most desirable of human foods it remained for modern analytical processes to prove that milk Is tile the cheapest and most valuable of food products especially when compared with meat the department of agriculture ling lias discovered that for 23 25 cents worth of a given product milk Is a more valuable food than meat ineat the grim words employed by the south carolina board of health A fly in the milk may menn a baby in the grave have gone over the land and left their impression upon the minds of f farmers aimers and milk cons consumers umero jilles flips lear bear germs gerins and a single germ in a milk bottle breeds a deadly million in a few hours too often during the last 60 50 years we have read of epidemics of typhoid and similar diseases being traced directly to a contaminated nilla supply of all human foods possibly none ilone Is more sue MIC cep tible to than milk particularly in hot weather when in the months of june july and august the babies of the country die by the thousands Linds diseases of the digestive organs cause 40 per cent of the deaths in many mani cities cows milk Is the exclusive food for a great majority of the Ara american erlean children up lip to the lie time they are on one 0 year old and it Is the chalef food of practically all children from froin the age of one to five the whiteness and opaqueness of milk serve as a covering and shelter tor for insoluble substances the theory that clean milk possesses long keep ing qualities has been found true with certified milk instances are ou on upeor record L where certified milk has been taken on nil an ocean voyage and not only brought back in good condition but also kept sweet until SO 30 days old when your milk Is sour after a few hours tt it ls certain that it Is not benn milk A number ot of certified fled milk dairies in alib united states sent exhibit of milk to the paris exhibition in a 1900 1901 and the milk kept sweet for two weeks and in some instances 18 lays days after being bottled following a summer journey of and miles tills this merely serves to illustrate what milk consumers may expect for the future pure pro products ducts american cheese of which alch the exports decreased from nearly pounds in 1881 to less than in 1014 is again finding its way to foreign markets in rapidly increasing amounts for the lost last halt of 1914 pounds were exported arted while january saw some pounds shipped to foreign countries and february so that the aggregate for the first ahr three ee months of 1915 amounted to pounds pound the demand for lee ice cream has been a great benefit to the dairy industry by the absorption of the milk surplus millions of ga gallons llo s 0 of f ice 16 ar cream are manufactured from artificial ingredients due clue to jo lack of dairy products to to meet the growing demand for this toothsome and refreshing article nevertheless nearly gallons of ice cream are annually manufactured from cream and milk this branch of the dairy industry has achieved its greatest growth during the last decade owing to the increased number of su resorts and parks the ice fee cream factories of the united states annually demand gallons or pounds of cream pounds of whole milk wid and gallons of condensed milk taking 14 cents as the average price paid for each fiallos of milk lee ice cream factories each year pay the enormous sum of to farmers for raw materials the lee ice crenin when retailed brings a price of standing foremost among the popular luxuries of the day in the united states |