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DAIRY CPHClAL - :1gyiSouth , Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. VcL mtb. 19g RALEIGH, H. C, HAY 14, 1910. j WesUj: a-Ye WHAT THE" SOUTH OFFERS THE GOOD DAIRYMAN 0JAIRYING has made Denmark rich in the last twenty years ; it has long kept the farmers of Holland and the Channel Islands prosperous and contented ; it has redeemed hundreds of " worn-out " farms in the'. North, Atlantic States and made them -fertile and profitable; in the Northwest, it has made, in many cases," those sections that wire naturally the poorest, the most, productive of all ; here and there in the South, where it has been carried on in an intelligent and up-to-date manner, it has built up poor soils and brought prosperity to the men engaged in it. What it has done in these instances, it could do and would do under wise direction on thousands of farms all over the South. , t : u2e South, on the one hand, buys, dairy products J romuiinois and Wisconsin and Iowa, and on the other hand,, ships, the cheapest and best concentrated feed for dairy cattle in the world cotton teed meal to the dairymen of New York and New England and Europe. And the dairymen of the Northwest and those of New England and Europe get rich and enrich their lands, while here in our own fair Southland the increase in the production of the staple crops per acre fails to keep pace with the increase in the annual fertilizer' bills. In short, we are feeding other people's cattle and buying other people's cream and cheese and butter, to their great advantage and our decided loss. Would it not be well to change all this, and to keep both this money and fertility at home? In our Dairy Special last year it was estimated that 50 Southern cities could consume the product of 200, 000 cows better than the average of those we now have. The demand for dairy products is all the time increasing faster than is the supply. What, then, arexthe reasons that Southern farmers are making such little effort to supply this demand? There are just three reasons thatreally count These are: (1) Lack of feed, (2) poor cows, and (3) lack of men trained for the work. '. f . y . , ' i , i - -,'' . Courtesy Wisconsin Experiment Station. HOLSTEIN cow, jewel duchess. The milk this cow gave in one week contained 22.109 pounds butter fat. r The first hindrance is so easily overcome that wearealmost ashamed- to - acknowledge that it is ahindranceTWe growthe -world's supply of cottonseed meal; we can grow a greater variety of leguminous feeds and more of them per acre, than can any oj.tne leading dairy States; we can produce corn silage at less cost than can any other section. With these feeds and good pas- tures, which we can have if we will, we can feed dairy cattle at less cost than can any Northwestern or. Northeastern farmer. As to better cows, there is just one way to get them. . That is, to get good sires, to test the cows for dairy work, to get rid of the poor ones and save calves only from those that pay their way. . Doing this, we can soon have as good dairy herds as are to be found anywhere. We have a few of them now; but all too few. The third problem is also one that can be solved. There is no mystery in the dair business. ' The man who has a lik ing for the work, and who is willing to devote to it the earnest thought and persistent effort which are the price of success in any occu pation, can soon be a.' good dairyman. And the good dairyman in the South is in practically every instance a man who is making money .and becoming a leader in the upbuilding of hit i community. t . i - ..,f V II V -if. -.!, .' -'. s- , "1 r Courtesy Wiiconsin Experiment Station. GUERNSEY COW. TRISTAN'S BOYALETTE. ' , This cow produced '499.61 pounds butter fat in one year. j FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE .Catawba Co-operative Cream- .'...425 to Atake 1. 1 Fab- ery ..... Feeding Cows V Money Home Dressmaking; rics I 420 Oleo Advocates Lack Inform- ation J... 428 Oleomargarine and the South 422 The Skim-milk Calf ....... 433 South Carolina Prospects Good . . . .'. ........ . . . . 433" Value of a Pure-Bred Ram. . 430 Wanted Dairymen 428 "What Tillage Is and What ; It Does ......... 423 What It Costs to Build a Silo 424 Which Herd . Represents . ' yours?................. 420 AVho Needs a Silo? ........ 424
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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