Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-02
Opportunities For Dairyins In the

What" exclaimed Prof John Lee
Coulter of Minnesota, while on a visit
to the south last week, "do you mean
to say that you get from 80 cents to
$1.05 for 20 per cent cream? Why,
our dairymen in the west get only 30
or 60 cents, and yet make big profits
on land valued at SIS to 500 an acre
profits which enable them TO live in
good homes, we'll painted, with hot
and cold water, and all modern COM
forts, good roads and good schools.
With your cheaper lands and your
longer growing season, / should say
there ought to be unusually big mon
ey in the dairy business in the south.
And he is right-if only the dairy
man is willing to give conscientious
study to his business.
Our warmer climate makes great
intelligence in the handling Of his
products necessary; less productive
soils and a higher market price for
feeds, make the cheapest possible pro-
duction of feeds more essential; and
the presence of the cattle ticks and
other local conditions call for intelli-
gent care and management; but to
meet these obstacles and overcome
them and to protect himself and his
animals from the natural disadvant-
ages of their surroundings, is the
duty Of the intelligent husbandman.
On the other hand, the southern
dairyman has advantages which, II
fully utilized, will more than balance
all his disadvantages when the latter
are met and lessened by intelligent
management; but all the many and
great advantages possessed by the
southern dairyman will not compen-
safe for a lack of common dairy and
business knowledge employed In his
various operations. The three factors
which most largely influence the re-
suits of manufacturing enterprise are:
cost of raw materials the efficiency of
the machine lin this case the cow
and the market, .: price received for
the finished product.
In the low cost for which he may
produce the raw materials (the feeds)
is wherein lies the greatest advantage
of the southern dairyman. On our
lOw-priced lands, because Of a longer
growing season and abundant moiS-
ture, he can by intelligent manage
ment produce feeds cheaper than any
of his competitors: yet, most south
ern dairymen buy too much high
priced feed or fail to produce the best
feeds most economically, and thereby
throw away their chief advantage.
This is the one outstanding opportu-
nifty of the southern dairyman, and
yet the one most neglected. In the
efficiency of the machine-the COW
the same intelligence exercised in
breeding, care and feeding will place
him on an equality with any other
dairyman anywhere on earth.
In the price which he may receive
for his products, the southern dairy
man has the second of his advantages.
Milk, cream and butter, of good quail
ity. sell for higher price in the south
than in any other part of this coun-
try, because of the local. or southern,
demand is not fully supplied by south
ern dairymen.
The southern dairyman. then, has
superior conditions as regards two out
of the three essential factors which
determine the success of the dairy
business. and is on an equality with
any other section as regards the third;
but let us correct the error which has
been the chief cause of past failures
these disadvantages do not remove
the necessity for better COWS. the
home production of cheaper and bet
ter feeds and the use of that business
and dairy knowledge which may be
acquired by any one who will seek it.
Our greatest need is not better dairy
opportunities. but better dairymen.-
Progressive Farmer.