Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-04
PROFIT IN DA|RY|NG.
Experience Proves the Iowa
Dairying Districts to Be the
Most Enterprising
CORN is KING IN IOWA
CORN is KING IN IOWA
But the Dairy Cow Is Undoubtedly
Queen, and the Dollars of the Iowa
Farmers Are Made on the Products
of This Royal Pair, as Stated by H..
r. Wright.
Special to Times-Republican.

Enthusiastic advocates of dairying in
Iowa is III. r. Wright. of this city. state
dairy commissioner ty appointment of
Governor Cunnins. Mr.. Wright has
done what no other dairy commissioner
| has been able to do. He has personally
visited nearly all the leading dairy
oounties of the state and has carried
ion personal inspections Of the cream
!eries. has got into touch with every
LEADING creamery manager in the state.
/ has carried on voluminous corre-
spondence. and during the present win
| ter has made it a point to visit as many
of the local farmers Institutes as pos
| isible and to address hundreds of farm
ers as we'll as the creamery men of the
state. There has been decline in
Idairying IN Iowa in recent years and
Mr. Wright is doing all that he can to
reyive the industry by every legitimate
means. He, went to Cedar Rapids last
evening to address the annual meeting
OF. the buttermakers of Iowa, where he
hopes to do some good in arousing in
creased interest in the business.
! II believe" said Mr.. Wright. "that if
dairying should be general all over Iowa
| 1t would enhance the value of Iowa
lands many million dollars. 1t would
make the state moro prosperous and
farming more profitable The sections
OF this state where Gairying is common
have never known a money stringency
1 YsN trra xI,.,& 4 L.
known in other parts of the state. The
cairymen always have at least a small
amount of ready money secured from
their sales of dairy products, and this
lmoney coming into the channels of
small trade relieves the stringency in
hard times. From this source stream
of prosperity is found to flow constant
Aly Uairying is profitable because the
i6nttcr- that is produced is net proii,.
The farmer must have the COW in order
| tc raise the calf. Tho cost of keeping
the COW must be charged up against
the value of the calf. and If there is a
profit in that as the beef growers assert,
then any other product from the COW
must be nearly or quite q net profit
against which may be charged the eX-
ira labor necessary to obtain the other
product. Suppose two farms of equal
size and productivene managed by
two farmers of equal skill and ability
and operated on the same lines, except
that one milks his COWS and the other
doesn't. The dairyman will raise more
pigs than his 'neighbor, because he will
have skinned milk and his neighbor
will have none. He will raise just as
many and as good calves from the same
rumber of cows. He will have exactly
the same products Gf the same value
as his neighbor who has not MIXED
any cows and he will have sold from
$25 to $50 worth OF butter from each
cow each year. Th. !,utter fat is nea
profit to the farmer. The census re-
turns will show this to be true. Coun-
ties of equal area, equal farm popula-i
tion and of presumably equal product
iveness ought to sell out Of the state
each year the sama number of dollars
worth of farm products; but the fact
lis that In comparing such counties the
records show that the dairy county
ships just as many dollars worth of
hor-as and hogs and cattle and poultry
and other farm products as the county
where no dairying IS carried on, and
besides. The butter is a net profit to
the individual, to the county and to
the state.
'Dairying is a profitable business be-
cause 1t is sure thing. In wet year
or a dry year the dairyman can raise
feed for his cows. When prices are
high or low the dairyman has money in
his pocket. The price of butter is the
most uniform of any of the farm prod
ucts. These are some of the reasons
why the dairy districts are the most
prosperous portions of this state. the
reasons why the wealth of these dairy
counties is generally distributed, the
reasons why the farmers there are uni
formly prosperous, the reasons why
their lands sell for 4 higher price than
elsewhere. reasons why the banks have
more money, why hard times do not af-
feet the dairy farmers disastrously and
the reasons in largo part for the ex-
traordinary and continued prosperity
OF a large part of the state of Iowa.
Corn is king in Iowa; but the dairy
COW is undoubtedly queen. and the dol
lars of the Iowa farmers are made on
the products of this royal pair"
Those who sometimes feel that the
price of Iowa land is now too high and
that investors stand 10 lose because of
over estimating the value of Iowa
fa rms, may receive some comfort from
a letter which was published in the
Lexington (Ky) Observer in 1860 from
some Kentuckian who had visited Iowa
ard wrote back to his home town to
warn people agains. the wild wave of
in the matter of specula-
ton in Iowa land ut that time. He
wrote:
DO not trade for anything in the
way of real estate within the limits OF
the state of Iowa. with the view OF SELL |
ing it at any price within the next five |
years. The value of land is nominal;
you may count it 4. s1.25 or $40.
have just sold lands bought in the
county north of your county for which |
paid $40 In 1857 tgood lands) at 81
per acre and that in trade. I consider