The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-28
DEMANDS OF THE TIMES.

Modern Dairying and How to Make the
Industry Remunerative.
The following is substance of lecture,
THE Dairying Demanded by the
Times" delivered by Mr.. John Gould
before the New York State Agricultural
Society:
The times are not only working
changes in our dairying, but demands
ing a general adoption OF line Of
method that shall not only benefit tho
few. but bring substantial prosperity
to the many as well. The system OF
thirty years ago will not bring success
now. Principles do not change. but
the methods to reach them do, and to
reach success new methods more in ac-
cord with those principles must be SUBJ
stituted, and with revival of memory,
to show from whence we started i'm
1850, let us see what the times de-
mand OF us in 1889.
The times first demand d0irg,ncs,
not makeshift, but man bound to
know and succeed-one who is in love
with his vocation. determined to excel
in all dairy knowledge. scouting all
acceptance OF low averages. and striv-
ing to produce not only the most, but
the best.
The times demand that this dairyman
shall dairy with a dairy COW. bred.
reared and trained for dairy purpose
"a COW with the largest development
OF motherhood possible; one that has
few .'steer' traits about her; a mother
OF large performance, that exchanges
food for good milk, and holds nothing
back for beef production. This COW
should be a special yielder Of milk for
consumption. butter and cheese, for
the dairyman must aim at specific re-
suit rather than trust in luck. or even
pin faith TO general purpose cow that
sells him $50 worth of milk per year.
and at last sells her beef for $12 more.
The times demand an equalization
OF production, SO that there shall be an
abandonment Of the over summer sup
ply, and SO prevent the ruinous prices
Of summer and the .'booming''-often
speculative-prices of winter. They
demand continuous supply Of the
fresh-made article, and when wanted.
No rise ever comes in July, when the
average dairyman has an over-abun-
dance. but in January. when he is
ninety days from cheap grass, and
nothing to sell. it suddenly ''rains por-
RIDGE on his inverted dish.
The farmer must solve the problem
of cheap and abundant rations for his
dairy, and with wise combination OF
these, make good and abundant milk
at minimum cost. 1t is a bold dash for
the .'cow to the acre" line of excel
lence, and simply means the most for
the least outlay. 1t can be reached
only by an adoption of soiling in some
Of its forms, and brings the silo TO the
front to aid in this to-be-desired con-
summation.
The dairyman must also drop all
prejudice and self-constituted judy
ment in regard to the market. and put
himself in the attitude OF a student,
who is DESTROYS OF supplying the wants
Of the consumer, and thus in pleasing
get the extreme limit Of prices. 1t is
simply business discernment such rs
| has made features of other industries
so conspicuous, and is his extra profit
in dairying.
The dairyman must forecast the
| future and see If the wants OF the
market will be best supplied with but
ter or cheese, and shape the rapidly
increasing dairy industry accordingly.
1t appears that the world is far better
supplied with cheese than with fine
butter, aud is likely to continue SO. and
he will therefore aim for butter pro-
duction OF the highest grade. and feed
skim-milk intelligently to young stock.
instead OF fostering the skim-cheese in
dustry. So long as England alone buys
about 3OO,OOO,OOO pounds of butter
from the Continent, and VIC have none
to sell her, because we consume all OF
the good butter ut horae, SO long will
we have Il fair field to sell abroad, pro-
vided we compete with No. article.
The times demand that all milk and
cream collected for manufactures shall
be pooled for its value in solids, and
not by its gross weight, The butter
fats in milk determine its commercial
value. The milk Of diaries varies as
greatly as that of individual cows in
quality. and no man who offers a milk
containing u or 5 and above per cent.
of butter fat should be compelled to
sell it pound for pound against milk
containing 3 per cent. Of fats.