The Holbrook news., 1911-03-17
PROFITABLE DAIRYING N By HUGH G. VAN PELT
 Dairy Expert Iowa State Dairy Association
What State Dairymen's Associations Can Do

keep the good cows and by the use of good sires produce daughters that ! are still better. save them. rear them under the best conditions for growth and developm ent and each generation make better the herd from the stand point of milk and butter production. never failing to sort out by the use of the scales and the Babcock test those individuals which do not pay for their care and feed and yield a reasonable profit besides
 Farmers Are Interested.
 It is surprising the interest that these short-course students take in their work. for. as matter of fact. 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 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 bI 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- ton 1t is possible for the latter insti- tuition to supply speakers free of cost t.xcepr for their travelling expenses to every farmers institute in the state that signifies fits interest in the real business of dairying.
 Probably one of the best opportuni- tics 10 do good is found at the an- nual meetings. of the patrons of the 800 creameries located in Iowa At this time the treasurer reports to the patrons-numbering from 50 to 500- 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 a fact If 1t Is pos SirfC. duQ uSudily IL IS, tO SuOW uliu whore 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- ations 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 1.O00,- 900 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, 1t has been carefully estimated that the dairy business of Iowa means an an nual income of s60.000.000. and it IS 3 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 DOT ton of the butter produced in Iowa