Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
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"A Soou ueal is going TO happen II
dairying within the next twenty-fiv
years. Dairy husbandry represent
) the most intensive form of agricul
ture practiced on this side of the wa
ter. We have been so busy abou
other things that we have not We
settled down to the development OF
the industry in this country. | thinl
the individual dairyman has his at
tention too exclusively on his person
al affairs, and too little upon the
industry he represents. When | sec
a man advocating a system of buy.
ing cows instead of feeding them
know that he is looking at it purely
from the individual standpoint. He
knows, or ought to know, that no
business can thrive on that basis.
What you need to do and what we
all need to do-and do it quickIy-is
to attend to those things that will
establish the dairy business as a
whole upon solid basis.
There are three things that today
menace the prosperity of the dairy
business: First, the inefficient COW :;
get rid of her. Second, antiquatet,
unsanitary methods; and third. the
general public, our consumers, do not
realize as they ought the food value
of dairy products. How do milk, but
ter or cheese compare in the best mar
kets as food pro duct-value for
value-with the other products of this
country? No comparison!
What we need is to have three
campaigns of education-one among
ourselves for better cows, another
among ourselves for better methods
in order to make better product,
and another among the consumers to
help them realize what dairy prod
ucts are really worth.
1t is up to the dairymen to edu-
cate both themselves and the gen
eral public and | believe they can
do it. We must look a long way
ahead. There are some things that
must be done now for the improve
ment of dairying twenty years from
Davenport, Illinois Ag-
ricultural College.
At the recent meeting of the Linn
County Jersey Breeders association,
Frank Laughary of Monmouth spoke
as president Of the Polk association.
He emphasized the need of studying
the cost of production aiming to sub
stitute the cheaper succulent crops for
the high-priced grain ration.
As a result of the Sheep and Wool
held in Portland last week,
growers and manufacturers are urging
n Federal bounty system as a means
to eXterminate predatory animals on
western ranges, the enactment of
state laws to control dogs in farm
states, the standardization of wool by
he Department of Agriculture, the
Of Government sheep
farms to determine the
breeds of sheep best adapted to vari-
,us conditions, and the creation of
WOOL colleges for the promotion of
more scientific methods in wool produc-
ion. In the report addressed to the
Secretary of Agriculture by a COM
nittee appointed for the purpose, it
$ pointed out that the sheep industry
# the United States is now valued at
approximately $230,000,000, but that
conditions are causing the
upply of sheep to decrease rapidly. ,
Methods of converting loganberries ;
nto by-products is the subject of an ,
Experiment Station bulletin recently
ssued by the Oregon Agricultural s
'ollege. This new bulletin, written I
" Prof. C. |. Lewis and Assistant 1
,. R. Brown, deals with the entire |
ubject of picking, handling and man G
featuring of loganberries into the 7
lost valuable forms of by-products t
'hich they may be made into, In I
ddition to the points usually COW {
red are several special features,
mOng them the reports of various '
ests on the manufacture of juices, G
nd number of attractive household T
ecipes for loganberries. This bulle- V
in is free to the people of Oregon
nd copies may be secured by writing a
ne Experiment Station, 0. A. c., a
OrvalliS, Oregon.
John Diehm of Smithfeld says he S
as ripe apples. The fruit is a small 2
elbow variety, the name of which he t.
Oes not know.
Cephas Nelson is erecting a silo, and
growing crops with which to fill
Mr.. A. H. Holmes of this city is
wheat over five feet tall, I
rown in his garden. L