Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-03-10
PROFITABLE DAIRYING
By HUGH G. VAN PELT
Dairy Expert Iowa State Dairy Association
What State Dairymen's Associations Can Do

they do better work during the five
or six days while the opportunity is
presented than do the real college stu
dents. who feel that their opportuni,
ties for education are to last for a
period of four years instead of for one
short week
The Iowa State Dairy association
also furnishes lecturers for farmers
Institutes. one of which is held in
every county in Iowa. supported to an
extent by the appropriation from the
state. In the past there has been
very little encouragement to the far
mer. who attended the institutes.
along lines of dairying because the
available lecturers were few, but now
that the state has come to the assist
ance of the State Dairymen's associa-
tion 1t is possible for the latter insti-
tuition to supply speakers free of. cost
except for their travelling expenses to
every farmers institute Ia tho state
that signifies its interest in the real
business of dairying.
Probably one of the best opportuni-
tics to do good is found at the an
nual meetings of the patrons Of the
500 creameries located in Iowa At
this time the treasurer reports to the
patrons-numbering from so to 800
what the financial condition of their
creamery is and what the profits have
been during the past year. On such
an occasion more interest Is displayed
than at any other time. because the
patron feels that the business is large
ly his--which is fact If it is pos
sibie. and usually it is. to show him
where his organization can be more
successful and pay larger prices to
the patrons for their butter fat during
the coming year. he feels that 1t is
TO his advantage to grasp the opportu-
nifty and in this way much good re-
suits to the patrons in the community.
Probably the best manner of assisting
these creamerymen Is to form associ-
atoms and already in Worth county
the North Iowa Dairy Improvement
association has been organized with
ten creameries cooperating. The but
ter made by these ten creameries is
taxed by the organization one-tenth
produces in her creameries over 1000.
600 pounds Of butter, and in this re-
spect leads, as a rule, all other states
in the Union. Judging from this but
ter income. together with the income
from the city milk supplies and from
other by-products of the dairy COW, It
has been carefully estimated that the
dairy business of Iowa means an an
nual income of $6O,0OO,OOO, and It is
q fact that the chief factory to be
found in nearly 500 towns in the state
is the factory where the cream pro-
duced on the farm is manufactured in
butter and shipped to market
Possibilities Of the Iowa Cow.
Owing to the fact that great por.
tion of the butter produced In Iowa
is shipped out of the state, the butter
industry represents one of the chief
sources Of income and wealth to the
state of Iowa. The production of but
ter and the wealth therefrom, how
over. is not thing that the Iowa
farmer is often found boasting about,
because he realizes that large as the
production of butter is and large as
Is the income at present, 1t is only a
small indication of the real possibili-
ties of the Iowa COW. To produce this
amount Of butter nearly million and
half cows are being MIXED and their
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average production is In the neighbor-
hood of only 140 pounds of butter per
year. One can only realize the small
4, ness of this production by comparing
1t with the large yield OF the better
herds of dairy cows that are to. be
found in many states. Many are the
herds that produce an average OF over
400 pounds of butter year. and this
means that each COW on the average
Is returning to her owner an income
| of over 500 annually for the butter she
produces. There is possibility that
the production of even these better
herds can be gradually increased. and
this Is best proven by the fact that
in these herds are to be found many
So"o ehot diO piOuuSiuS muCu huOlo
than 400 pounds of butter. while 9th.
ers are producing lesser amount
| One is not surprised nowadays to
find cows that have produced from TOO
pounds to 1000 pounds of butter a
year. and a few cows already have
produced over LOO pounds of butter
In 365 days. There is possibility of
doubling the average production OF
the cows with very little expense. In
fact, only three things are needed to
accomplish this, namely: Better
dairymen, better cows and better
methods Of caring for and feeding
them. To double the average produc.
ton of the COW would mean that she
must produce an average of $50 pounds
OF butter annually, and no doubt the
time Will come when she win be doing
this. for as matter of fact her pres.