The Advocate and news., 1897-12-22
Dairy School at the Agricultural College.

Dairy School at the Agricultural College.
\ Editor Advocate and News; Your
representative asks for brief state
ment OF the reasons for organizing q
Dairy school at the State Agricultural
College.
Kansas has the most favorable condl-
ti0ns for profitable dairying Of any State
I'm the UniOn--mild climate, short win
ters, rich lands, cheap feeds and good
shipplng facilities.
Dairying is business that offers to
Kansas farmers a good cash income the
year round, sure means of prohtably
marketing, in condensed form, our bulky
forage and grain crops and profitable
employment at all times.
The production Of good butter and
cheese Is q business that I'm Kansas is
capable of unlimited extension. There
is constant demand In all large cities
for good butter, the mountain districts
will always furnish q good market for
dairy products, and England is COM
PEELED to buy millions Of dollars worth
every year. Owing to favorable condi-
tions, Kansas can produce good butter
cheaper than any other State and Kan
sas butter can be delivered to these mar
kets In good condition for as low and
often lower freight rate than that paid
by producers living close to these mar
kets. The rate on butter from Kansas
points to our best Eastern markets does
not exceed III cents per pound, 1t costs
less than cents per pound to deliver
Kansas butter In the best English mar
keta, and not over 2 cents per pound to
place 1t In Rocky mountain markets.
During the past years Of hard times
the dairy producing sections Of the
United States have been the prosperous
sections, and wide-awake farmers all
over the country, realizing this fact, are
going into dairying. It Is often asked,
Is not the business going to be over
done?" Possibly 1t will be; but Kan
sas, owing to her favorable conditions,
can market butter at q good profit IL
the price drops so low that dairymen in
Eastern and Northern States will be
compelled to stop making it.
Notwithstanding these favorable con-
ditions, II ls we'll known that large
amount Of Kansas butter Is sold so low
that the producers get no profit from
1t, and that while the average yearly
return from the Kansas dairy COW Is
less than $40, dairymen in other States
under much less favorable conditions
are receiving from $40 to 800 per cow
each year. Every test made in Amer
lea and Europe has proved that Kansas
butter when properly made takes first
rank and sells for highest prices, and
all will admit that intelligent feeding
and care will secure as great a yield
from COW In Kansas as from a COW
In any other place.
The one thing lacking to make dairy
Ing most successful in Kansas and to
make It one Of our greatest and most
profitable industries, seems to be the
lack OF dairy knowledge, knowledge OF
the profitable management OF dairy
farms, OF how to produce most cheaply
dairy feeds, OF how to select, feed and
breed dairy COWS and OF the production
and handling Of dairy products so as
TO secure top prices.
1t Is to furnish such information to
those who want 1t, that the Kansas Ag-
Fleultural College has established
Dairy school, and every farmer, farmers
wife, son and daughter will be well
coined there. Respectfully,
H. NJ. COTTRELL,
Kansas State Agricultural College,
Manhattan, Kas.