Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-01-31

baggage car will be fitted to represent
the appearance of a model dairy barn,
which will be furnished with patent
stalls and stanchions of the most i'm
proved type. Cows and bulls repre-
sentative Of the special dairy breeds:
namely, Holsteins, Guernseys and
Jerseys, will occupy the stalls and at
each town, weather permitting, will
be taken to the doors of the cars and
used in demonstrating the lecture,
1.-THE Five Essential Points to Be OBJ
served in Selecting Cows Capable OF
Producing Largely and Probably in
the Dairy by Converting the Raw Ma
terial of the Farm into Milk and But
ter-fat." The bulls will be shown and
like demonstration given to inn
press upon the listeners not only the
importance of heading their herds
with pure bred dairy sires, but also
the characteristics that must neces-
sarily be present in breeding and con-
formation if his daughters can with
reason be expected to be more pro
ductive and profitable than their
mothers. The three lecture coaches
will be manned with enthusiastic
speakers of experience who are rec
ognized authorities on dairy subjects.
List of Speakers.
The speakers who have at present
been secured, five or six of which will
be on the train at each town, are w.
B. Barney, state dairy commissioner;
]. J. Ross, assistant state dairy COM
missioner; G. w. Patterson, north
Iowa dairy expert; e. s. Estcl, assist
ant state expert; Prof. G. l.. Mckay,
secretary OF the American Creamery
Butter Manufacturers association; G.
II. Teller, assistant secretary Amer
lean Creamery Butter Manufacturers
association; e. r. Shoemaker, editor
of Kimball's Dairy Farmer; G. A.
Nelson, a practical dairyman of Wav-
erly, and Hugh G. Van Pelt, state
dairy expert. In addition to the above
speakers w. w. Marsh of Waterloo,
who last year offered $1,000 for the
purpose of encouraging the testing of
COWS in the state, and organized the
Iowa Cow Culture contest, has also
agreed to be upon the train a portion
Of the time. Mr.. Marsh is also the
man who owns and has developed
Dairymaid Of Pinehurst, the 3-year-old
COW which produced in one year over
1000 pounds of butter and thus le-
came the grand champion butter pro.
ducing 3-year old Guernsey COW of the
world
Much time and care have been used
in selecting the above list OF speak
ers and there is no one but who will
concede that without exception this
is the strongest list of speakers on
dairy subjects that have ever accom-
panied special dairy train.
Were there no other attractions eX
cept those already mentioned, accom-
panying the special dairy train on the
Chicago Great Western, every farmer
within radius of ten miles of each
town where the train will stop will be
repaid if ne avails himself of the op
| portunity Of spending an hour with
these men who have made practical
application of the facts which they
/ will give and have made success
in dairying. Besides the illustrated
COW demonstration which has become
popular at state fairs, state dairy
shows and national dairy shows it has
| been given and attracted enthusiastic
dairymen by the hundreds and is rec
Ogrized as one of the most helpful
lectures given today on dairying
There Will be other lectures in the
three lecture coaches on the subjects
tf Feeding Cows" Breeding Dairy
Cattle" "Siios and S.lage," "Tne
Kinds Of Feeds TO Raise Upon the
Farm to Make Butter Production Pro
EtaGie," '2'ae Testing Of Dairy Herd.
to Sort Out the Improbable Cows
from the Profitable Ones" and other
lectures illustrated by the use of mini
allure silos, literally contributed fol-
tie use of the State Dairy association
in this work, with weighing ard test
ing apparatuses, etc.
I Valuable information.
! The Importance OF these lectures
may be illustrated by the fact that in
Iowa today there are being MIXED
100000 cows, 100000 of which are
making profits for the men who milk