The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-27

AAS larry a necessity In America.
The truth of this is supported by currant
history. The more denselv populated
country becomes, the greater the number of
cows do we find, writes Hortense Dudley.
This is partly owing to choice and partly
to necessity; choice, because the more ad-
vaHced people becomes, the more do they
realize the fact that milk is the one per~
feet food which contains all the elements res
CURED by the body for growth and sub
stance; necessity, because greater number
of individuals can be supported by land de-
voted to dairy farming than to any other
industry.
Before nation consents to send out its
subjects as emigrants, it first tries to see
how many it can support at home; the
guardians of thepeople putting their heads
together to endeavor to make home products
supply home demand, to discover what
kind OF available food the land can be made
TO produce in the greatest abundance. This
problem was settled by Holland thirty
years ago when she supported $50 the Ameri-
can Cyclopedia says) a population of over
800 persons to the square mile. principally
upon the products of her dairy COWS.
The soil of Holland, as we all know. is
especially adapted to dairy farming, much of
the land being low, fiat and marshy: in
many places lying below the level of the
sea from which it has been reclaim d and is
now protected by enormous dykes built by
the government.
A gentleman who was travelling through
that country, noticing how thickly it was
settled and yet how small a proportion of
the land appeared to be in cultivation, asked
plump old burgher who lived fearlessly
under the caves of the sea, protected from
It's salt waters only by wall of earth, how
it was that his country managed to feed so
dense population.
You see. said the old gentleman with a
Facsimile, that | at least have not suffered
for something to eat.n Afterward, he went
on to explain that 95 per cent. of his coun-
try was growing perennial grass, that no
field crop except grass could be made to
support the cattle that his country was
feeding, and that the people could not be
fed otherwise than from CATTLE
Moreover" he added with a little par
donable vanity, mo other cattle but the
breed we have could feed the number Of
people that my country contains
We will see the reason in this mans
speech when we remember that blade of
grass is the first formation from mineral
matter, the seed stalk Is next, and after that
comes the grain, which last product only is
sufficiently digestible AMI nutritious to be
assimilated as food in the stomach of man
Now it is apparent that grass is a much
cheaper food than grain, but if we were put
upon that diet We would starve 80 we are
Obliged to enlist the services of the COW as a
go-betweer, because she cannot only sup
port her own life upon grass, but can elimi-
nate therefrom sufficient daily food TO 90
far toward supporting a good-sized family
Not only has the long-headed Dutchman
years ago come to regard the COW as his
most valuable assistant IN rearing his large
family of children, but he is upheld in his
estimation of her usefulness by all other
highly civilized nations in the north of
Europe.
In fact, it appears that the grade of dairy
cattle in any country is pretty good index
of its state of civilization. Tie savage
races use none at all and the emigrant from
civilization as he pushes his way farther
into the bush, carries with MIN to his now
home, as an Indispensable helper in the
struggle for existence, his beloved dairy
COWS
A cursory view of the very elaborate
consular reports on dairy cattle which our
state department published few years
since, shows that no nations outside of those
mentioned above. have any cattle that we
would permit to live to the second genera
ton. except as mere curiosities. And it is
now an assumed fact that the foreign will
compete with the home demand for this sort
of property.