Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-27
The Bottom Secret.
THoard's Dairynan.]

1t is very seldom that we run across
ITS words that contain the object and
purpose of modern dairying to as great
an extent as does the following extract
from the report in last weeks Dairy
man of the proceedings OF the Mime
sofa Dairymen's convention on page
114O. 1t is such clear exposition of
what every dairy farmer should carry
in his mind, that we reproduce 1t
again, and ask our readers to peruse
it once more, for it will bear repeating
a thousand times. 1t is taken from
President Trow's address:
1.-THE solution does not lie in expect
ing the consumer to pay more than Is
cents pound for butter, but in the
production Of cheaper feeds, and the
breeding Of better COWS. We should
remember that large per cent OF but
ter is consumed by the common people
who cannot afford to pay more than
25 cents pound for butter. The far
mer must do something to decrease the
cost of production. I believe the solu-
ton lies in the growing Of corn, Glow
er and alfalfa hay, and perhaps roots,
and also in keeping Of better cows.
In discussing this question, Mr.. l..
A. Sweet thought that the farmers are
losing too much money by keeping the
dual-purpose COW.
Mr.. Trow said that more care should
be given to the cows and not allow
them to run out in the stalk fields
when 1t is 20 degrees below zero. When
farmers provide for their cows COM
Portable barns, the farmers will find
that the production Of their dairy ami
mails will be materially increased, no
matter what kind Of cows they are
keeping"
Nine out of ten farmers, we believe,
have their eyes fixed on the market end
not on the farm end, Of this business.
what are we going to get for our but
teri" Not, chow can we produce the
best butter the most cheaply?" Is the
question they ask. 1t don't require any
thought or exercise and hard thinking,
to ask the first question. 1t is easily
asked. But it does take pluck, brains,
and habit of study to ask the second
question. That is why it is seldom ask
ed.
And, moreover, the second question
is the only successful way to ask the
first. The way to get the highest price
for the products Of the COW is to make
the purest, best products. The only
way to make the highest profit that
can be made is to produce on the farm
all the best dairy feeds in the best
condition possible. Then have true
dairy COW to consume this food and
shelter her and care for her in the line
Of modern dairy intelligence.
All the logic and reason Of modern
dairy thinking point to these conclu-
sions, but all the light of heaven is no
use to men who are blind, and who
believe that darkness is light. Intelli-
gent dairy farming producing the right
food for the COW; putting. it before her
in right condition; intelligent stable
building, not expensive. fancy, foolish
work, but constructed rightly for
healthy COW living and milk produce
ton; intelligent cow breeding, for the
sake and purpose Of the best COW pos
sible, not beef, not size, but the most
economic COW that we can get-these
are the principles. purposes and things
that will make the highest profit in
dairy farming, whether we are In
Maine, Minnesota Or Manitoba.