Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-10
DAIRY COW IS QUEEN
Commissioner Wright Places It
Next to King Corn.
DOLLARS OF FARMER THEIR PRODUCT
Delivers Comprehensive Address Be-
fore State Dairy Observation-Disclosures
Many Reasons Why Dairyins is One
of the Most Profitable Occupations.

Corn is king in Iowa but the dairy
COW is queen and the dollars of the
Iowa farmers are the products of this
royal pair said State Dairy Commits
sioner Wright in his address deliver
cd before the delegates of the State
Dairy association which is in session
at Cedar Rapids. Commissioner
Wright is well known in Ottumwa.
In his address he dealt with the ques-
ton of the butter industry of the state
and showed clearly that this industry
is one of the most profitable to the
Iowa farmers. He said in part:
MIR. President: A great deal has
been said about the decline of dairy
ing in Iowa, and a number of people
have gone so far as to suggest that
dairying was not suitable for Iowa
conditions, and hence not at all prof.
table, and that these were the rea--
sons for the falling eff in our product
of butter for the last several years.
| Without discussing tho reasons why
we do not make quite SO much butter
as we did in the hard times period of
1896 and 1897, we may, with profit to
ourselves, consider the question of
the suitability of dairying to Iowa's
conditions and the profitableness of
| the business in this state.
This IS primarily a corn state We
must raise corn on oar farms because ma
| ture has especially adapted the soil and
/ climate of this state for the product OF
| the king of cereals. And having raised
corn, we must feed 1t to hogs and cattle
and other stock in order to get the great
\ est value from the grain. We ought moi
/ then 11nnt addition npf
/ hog and cattle growing in Iowa that vii
render less profitable these lines of effort
4 But daiIying does not interfere because
the by-product of the dairy, skinned milk
is the ideal feed en- which to raise pigs
and the farmer who milks his cows ant
raises his calves on SKINNED milk and corr
may have just as good calves as does thu
man who allows the calves to run witt
the cows. Dairying Is emincntly suitab!
ds an addition to our growing of hogs an,
cattle and indeed is almost a necessar,
part of stock growing in Iowa The fac
that for Il quarter of century Iowa ha
made more butter than any other state
or any equal area in the United States
, seems to prove that dairying is not only
suitable addition to orr system of agricu
ture, but that it is also Il profitable add
ton.
"Dairying is Il profitable business he
cause it takes nothing from the soil. Da
l rying tends to the maintenance OF the fel
tility of the land upon which it is carrie
+ on. All the products of the farm com
= primarily from the soil. or the air. If
, man sells those products the substance {
which comes from the soil, he is selling hi
, farm piece-meal
: clarifying is profitable because the dair,
i man has little or nothing invested TIL
e Is a hog and cattle state. We must rails
S cattle, whether we wish to do so or no
e and so we may say that the farmer keel
the COW for the purpose of producing IL
q calf: and hence the COW, in Il sense, is III
= a part of his investment in the dairy bus