The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
Dairy Cow Demonstrations and Aver.
age Farmers.

One of tho prettiest pamphlets that
has recently come to our desk is a
large one published by the American
Jersey Cattle Club, giving a record
of the dairy COW determination with
the Jerseys at the louisiana Purchase
Exposition last summer. Some of the
advocates of the other breeds com
planned that the 5erseys were the pick
of the breed from all parts of the
country. and that they had the most
minute care in the competition. This
simply shows the energy and capacity
of the Jersey breeders and the lack
of enterprise with the others. The
object of the tests was TO show the best
that each breed could do and to Illus
trate. the development of the dairy COW
in America. 1t was the first real and
scientific test that has been made, and
fully authorized the statement of Prof.
e. Il. Harrington, who had the matter
in charge. that There is no fiction in
these worlds Fair Records" The de-
ceptive test of butter making was en-
tirely eliminated, as being more q test
IF the butter maker than of the COW,
and the dependence was solely on the
Babcock test for butter fat in the milk
IF each COW No public demOnstra-
ton ever showed so plainly the value
Of breeding to pure dairy type, and
the folly of the dual-purpose fad. The
pamphlet quotes Kansas writer IN
Hoard's Dairyman, who writes that
The COWS in this State are said to
average only $50 pounds Of butter
head a year. AT ordinary prices this
would not feed one of our cows q
year. The fact is. there is neither
profit nor glory in an average of any
thing raised on the farm. and the man
who expects to succeed as a farmer
or dairyman must get above the aver
age. The average farmer is not 2
reader Of agricultural literature: the
average dailyman reads no dairy pa
per He is down on book farming and
.sich.' and the dual-purp"se COW is the
COW for him"
The truth is that the average man
Is a poor specimen in any line of bust
ness. He may as a farmer, be a little
above the man whose miserable crops
cut the yield of the crops of his State
down to a low average, but he just
strikes that average. just makes bare
and poor living, and is unable to pro-
duce crops at a cost that will make
him a profit at ordinary prices, and
can only get out clear when prices
are above the average. We met a
afrmer of this sort Or rather an agri-
culturiSt for he was q man living in
town and having q farm cultivated.
we remarked tnat good farmer Coutu
make money growing cotton at eight
cents a pound. ard he remarked that
he could just get out clear at ten
cents. Another man we know, who
has gotten above the average, and
makes two bales of cotton per acre
can certainly make money with cotton
at eight cents a pound. No matter
whether a man is a cotton grower,
tobacco grower a wheat grower or q
daiIyman, he must get above the aver
age to make money at farming The
man who makes less than quarter
IA bole of cotton, ten bushels of
wheat, or less, per acre, or who makes
butter with cows that average 1o0
pounds a year, needs to learn some
book farming and to put it in prac-
tice The book farmers the readers
of agricultural papers, the men Wno
are real students of their profession
have gotten we'll above the average.
and the man who would get above the
average in these days must do like
wise, for ignorance of ones rrofes-
SION will keep a man down, whether
hc is a farmer doctor or lawyer.