The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-15
THE SOUTHLAND
OA|RY INDUSTRY
Some Good Work Uncle Sam Is
Doing in Nine Southern
States.
TEACHING DAIRY BUSINESS
4 Black Eye Given to Cream
cry Promoters'-Rcal Cream
cries Follow Much Dairying.
by FRANK s. woousoN.

From the annual report OF the chief
OF the bureau Of animal industry of
the Agricultural Department at wash
ington comes the gratifying informa.
non that the dairy industry is grow
ms In several OF the Southern States.
including Virginia and North Carolina,
perhaps more rapidly than in other
sections. II may be that the rand
growth In this section OF this IMPORT
ant interest Is more noticeable from
the fact that there has been SO much
room for growth, but the chief Of the
bureau does not say so.
II may not be generally known tina,
the United states government is spend
Ing considerable money 10 help the
people along in the dairy industry. bu,
IL Is In his rcpor the CHIEF says:
Splendid object Lessons.
The Southern Held work for the
development and Improvement OF the
dairy industry, which has been con-
tinucd along the same general lines as
reported in previous years, is now In
progress In nine states. namely: Ala
bama. Georgia, Maryland. Mississippi.
North Carolina. South Carolina. Ten
nessec. Texas and Virginia. Usually
out one man works In a State, and de-
votes his time largely to Individual
dalrymcn located at different sections,
The object being to assist one da,ryman
IN a locality TO operate his dairy in q
t~hroushly profitable manner, thereby
providing an object lesson for the bene-
nj OF the locality One the whole. this
work has been very successful. 1t has
not only lone much in the way of
demonstrating the possibilities of dairy
ing In the South. hut II has also demon
stratcd a most practicable system of
developing the dairy industry 10 take
advantage of those possibilities"
states Come to Work.
Inc report goes on to say that in all
of the nine States named local InstI-
tutlons. such / presume, as the VIr-
GINA Polytechnic Institute, the Miller
school' etc. are giving Increased at
tentlon TO the good work of instruc-
ton and demonstration, anu II Is fully
expected that In time these institutions
ana the agricultural departments ot
the States will take over the work en-
tirely, thus enabling the government.
to transfer its aid and its helpers to
other States that are father behind the
times in the dairy industry. North
Carolina, so the epo says, is provid-
ing funds quite literally, and Virginia
Is chipping in right handsomely.
The following are some of the parti-
cular lines Of work in progress, as
explained in the chiefs voluminous re-
port: Herd Improvement. and econom-
zeal feeding; furnishing plans for dairy
barns, silos. dairy houses. etc, and Civ
ing advice in their erection: assisting
In the organization of dairy and 1.-Two
stock associations: improving city milk
supplies; assisting in short courses OF
dairy instruction and in meetings and
in fairs; oversight of creamery or
ganlzation. etc,
Things Accomplished.
Phe chief sums up some CT the good
work done in the nine southern States
in which his division has had its agents
and assistants and lecturers. He SAYS:
During the year records OF fifty-
seven herds containing 964 COWS were
kept by dairymen in the South under
the supervision of the dairy division,
and in addition a number of dairy
men-in one State as MANY as thirty
hve-have been conducting herd re-
cords without the assistance of the
field men. One man keeping records
under the instruction of the field
agent reduced the cost of milk produc-
tion from Sl.3i to 96 cents per hundred
pounds, n saving of nearly onc-half.
"The use Of purebred bull comes as
an immediate result of the herd re-
cords, and field workers during the
past year have been abla to induce
twenty dairymen to buy purcbred bulls.
They have also assisted farmers In the
purchase of good dairy stock to replace
the Improbable COWS OF their herds.
Value OF Silos.
FIFTY silos have been built in the
southern States during the past year
as n result of the work OF the dairy
division. On account of the perman-
ency Of the concrete construction that
lcoptIpNed on secona,ppge.l