Charlevoix county herald., 1911-05-13
TO DEVELOP DAIRYING
"Mirhigan-The Greatest Dairy
State In The Uniqn.'

Citizens OF the extreme southern
portion OF Michigan are informed from
time to time that there is consider
able activity being displayed in the
line Of developing, agrlcqltprally, the
upper peninsula. Busy with their
own affairs, they have little inclipa-
tion to give heed TO the signit ticance
OF movement that is destined to
play an increasingly important part
in the future history of our state.
La the western and northern coqn-
ties of Michigan there is an organiga-
tion now several years old that is
known as the Western Michigan De-
velopment Bureau; in the counties
living north and west of Bay City
there is a second organization known
as the Northeastern Michigan De-
velopment Bureau, now oyer year
old. In the upper peninsula there
has recently been created third or
ganiZation known as the Upper Pen
| insula Development Bureau, and that
embraces in its mem bership repre-
sentaJives Of every county in that Sec
| tion Of the state, as well as men con-
nected prominently with vast enter
prises of mining, numbering and agri-
culture. EACH OF these three organi
zatiOns is striving primarily to attain
| the same result; that Of settling these
1 70 a1 4, md
an who will carry pn agriculture,
create cities and in general bring
about condition of established pros
perity like that enjoyed in the more
favored southern counties OF the
state. The task is gigantic one as
those who are engaged in the work
are we'll aware. Much prejudice and
ignorance must be dispelled even
among the citizens OF our own state.
A land that has long borne the repu-
tation of being an unfertie and in
hospitable wilderness cannot be popu-
lated and made productive over night.
Aside from the fact that every citi-
zen ia the state will be benefited by
the increased amount Of taYahle pro-
perty that will be brought into exist
ance in these developed districts,
there are other and more immediate
benefits that will come to breeders of
pure-bred dairy cattle. IL is well
recognized that dairying in the form
OF agriculture best adapted TO both
soil aud climate in the districts being
developed. In each of the associa-
tons there are men who are lnflu-
entail in their affairs and who are
likewise prominent as dairymen and
breeders. These men know what
dairying has done for them and Others
in each of the three districts and
they may be counted upon To en-
courage the industry as can no Others
who have not had the practical ex-
perieuce. On the western side Of the
state there is ID. ii. Day. president of
that Bureau and leading Holstein
breeder; on the eastern side is Il. F..
Marston, secretary of that Bureau
and Jersey breeder Of national repu-
tation; in the northern peninsula
there is w. s. Prickett, owner of
Roycroft Farm at Sidnaw, and Alton
I. Roberts Of Marquette, manager of
the Emblagaard Dairy, and an official
of the Upper Peninsula development
bureau.
Not at once, but slowly in the next
few years. we will see the efforts of
the influence these men will exert to
build up their sections Of the state
into prosperous dairying districts.
There will be an increasingly strong
demand for pure bred sires and COWS
and the logical place for these settlers
to go for their cows is to the herds
now fiourishing in the southern coun-
ties Of the state.
Every citizen of Michigan should do
what he can toward aiding the work
of these three development bureaus,
but especially should the breeders OF
pure bred dairy cattle seek to pro-
mote the work. Michigan is now i'm
a fair way toward becoming the lead
ing dairy state in the Union, with
less than half Of her soil area under
cultivation. At the outset of the
work Of developing the cultivation in
dustry, both as means of creating a
market for our surplus stock and also
because it will be the last step nee
essary to outstrip our neighbor, Wis
c9nsin, and enabled US to make the
proud claim; michigan, the great.
est dairy state in the UIion. mich.
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