Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-12-05
Education in Dairying.
Farmers Must Work More to
Definite Purpose to
Win Success

Definite Purpose to
Win Success
Incidents of successful dairying and
it's important requirements are given by
Prof. G. L. Mckay, of Ames, Iowa.
agricultural college, in the September
number of the Dairy Age. Beloit, kan''
AS follows.
was reading some time ago OF that
great multi millionaire Rockefeller s
report to congress on trusts. In 1t ne
said trusts were not necessarily detri-
mental to the people. He said IN his
business he got no better railroad rates
than his competitors. He maintained
that his success was due to a study OF
producing a cheaper and better grade OF
goods for the people. This was done,
he said, regardless of the expense OF
changing machinery when it was found
that other machinery could do the same
work more economically. This same
principle must be applied in all lines OF
business. Many of You keep COWS that
give YOU no returns. They are simply
boarders. This reminds me Of a lecture
I heard that eminent colored man,
Booker T. Washington. of the Tuskogee
institute give. His theme was the edu-
cation of the colored man so that he
could compete with his white brother.
This, he said, would settle the question
of what to do with the colored man.
One Of the most striking contrasts that
he had seen was the poor colored man
down south with his old wooden pillow
string harness and old mule, trying to
prepare the ground for corn and plant
ing it with a hoe, competing with a
white man north who sits on his planter
with AL umbrella over his head, plant
ing two rows at a time. / frequently
think of this, when l see some OF our
farmers trying to make money dairying
with a scrub COW. Now it takes about
1875 to feed the ordinary COW one year.
This we have found out by actual
experience at our school. We have
opened up an account with each Of our
COWS. We charge them with the food
they consume and give them credit for
the butter they produce. 1t will sur
prise you to see the record of u herd
before we began to weed them out. We
had some COW that gave us a clear
profit of $50 per head; we had others
that ran us in debt 81 OF 81: that is,
they did not actually give us enough
butler to pay for their food. If you
tried dairying with this kind of cows
you would certainly fail.
If your COWS will not produce butter
for less than l6 or IS cents per pound,
you cannot successfully compete with
the man who has cows that will pro-
duce butter for 6 cents per POUND.
There is no need of any man keeping
inferior COWS at the present time, who
is sending to creameries, as any cream
cry man, ! think, will be pleased to test
the milk from each COW and by weigh
ing the milk each time you can soon
tell if your cows are a source Of profit
or loss.
Go into almost any creamery or
factory in any state and you will find
some men who are possibly receiving
from $40 to $50 per COW. You will find
others sending milk to that same cream.
cry who are averaging probably not
over $40. Now, if a meeting could be
called once or twice a year and these
patrons gotten together to discuss these
points the $40 man rubbed against the
$40 kind of a man, and things evened