Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-06

well-known resident of Northern
Illinois: Within a radius of ten miles
from my door there are at least 300
! 100000 pounds of milk produced each
year tan average of ten S-gallon cans
per day for every quarter section Of
land). yet have lived with this peo
pie for thirty years. and as a matter
OF fact. easily verified. no other de-
partment OF life of which l am cogniz
ant can measure with it In its deplor.
able Ignorance. Here they are a great
colohF or people with no literature
with which TO inform themselves. and
sun producing food for human be-
ings 10 live upon
Another feature is. not one dairy
man in twenty has anything like
t!ue conception OF tho production of
ms indiNidual cows. / think now OF
80 ' one VINO rs making tests TO know
cach COW Is profitable, or the re-
verse Again, where great ignoran
Such Is this prevails, also great fItn
goes hand In hand" Think of thar
from one OF the best dairy regions ~
me state. DO not these conditions
s"oM waste OF energy that calls for
campaign Of education?
Money does not make the man ana
yet II has been found impossible n a.
minister 10 the better man until HE
ph!sical environment is comfortable
! ana respectable. The highest success
comes 70 the man from intelligent, con-
| sc:entious effort. Strict laws rovern
our achievement. If a man can 5ouh,n
MS earnings by simply deycloninr ava
using MS brain power, and conservfn,
ms energy so that he can live resnect
AMY and bring up his children to their
hiehest usefulness, this is conserva
| ton or natural resources of even great
or consequence than preserving our for.
ests and our mines.
Why Is the average annual nroduc
ton OF the cows in the United S,at.a
loe POUNDS OF butter fat, causing a loss
| OF Slto TO the owner. instead of 3o5
pounds OF butter fat, making a nrost ~
5000 annually-the point to which
some dairymen in Illinois have in.
creased their grade herds by sinnlv
putting intelligence into the business
and this Is by no means the maximum
OF what can be done. There Is no rea-
sou why all OF the herds in the limited
states should not be Welding as large
, an annual production rs these IL thew
were as intelligently handled Dairy
men do not stop to consider the ire
mendous trihes in their business While
the difference in earning power of these
COWS is only ! 1-2 cents per day, this
small increase for each of the Is, 900 600
COWS In the United States would moan
an additional profit Of $751; 900 an
nually for the dairymen.
We have been talking about this
'e9'iiS anu htcplHe Il record or the In
dividual cows SO long that we wish it
were not necessary to say anything
more about it. but so long as dairym en-
persist in being ignorant of their
COWS production, shall keen
pounding away until they become ac-
iuainted with each individual COW
and save themselves the folly OF con-
verting high priced grain into "drib-
blc@ OF milk and loads Of dung" Book
Keeping has shown that the shiftless
hit or miss breeding of scrubs does not
pay expenses. The argument is plain
enough. A dairy COW is n machine for
converting food into dairy products,
and the best economy and surest profit
consists In employing the best machines
obtainable. Remarkable improvement
has como with the grading up Of dairy
! herds.
The price of dairy products has ad-
vanced, but not in proportion to tho
! advance In the prices OF grain and
! land. and under the present conditions
I Il is the height of folly TO milk cows
| that do not pay expenses. 1t is, there
/ fore, "A matter Of great concern to the
! doing.
This Is the day Of thinkers, and it is
! to the dairyman's advantage to belong
! TO this class. The proposition con-
| fronting the dairyman o-day is not
| primarily matter OF location. soil.
! or climate: 1t is he. himself, that
/ stands In the way of his own progress
/ Few people realize what Intelligence,
care and study, what patience, obser.
! walton and experience are needed to
make good dairyman. to interpret
| to the mind the language OF the COW
! In such - manner to understand
hcr every rcel and be able to propcrly
| supply 1t. The Inherent and fatal
weakness OF many people is that they
| tn Mt
, and decisive factor of success in all
! fields Of human activity. viz, trained
! and intelligent judgment based on
( sound theory and practice. The cause
and cure for the backwardness of the
I. dairymhn Is in his mind. and in tho
| solution Of hts problems chief prom!-
hence must be given TO the human fac