Semi-weekly herald., 1916-04-24


the state over $4,000, 10000, or ap-
proximately $14o,00o.0o per county.
This large sum of money, which rep
resents a cash business, will increase
the farmers purchasing power and
thus develop business in the entire
community.
Since the average farmer cannot
pay the high price for pure bred
dairy cows, he must use his grade
cows improve their offspring by the
use of good pure bred dairy sires.
High class pure bred sires are not
cheap in price, but you can help your
neighbors to cooperate and buy sew
eral pure bred dairy sires for their
joint use. One bull can be used to
fifty cows. The district can be num-
bered, and the bulls can likewise be
numbered, /, 2, 8, 4, and 5, as the
may be- After bull No. is used two
years in one section, he can be trans
ferred to section No. 9; bull No. 2 TO
section No. 3; bull No. 3 to section
No. 4, and so forth. These bulls
must not be closely related to each
other because we want to prevent in
breeding, With the aid of the Bah
cock buttorfat test and spring
balance to weigh the milk, the far
mer can learn which cows are the
profitable ones. By disposing of the
Improbable cows, he can increase
the profits from his herd. From
experimental data where pure bred
1airy sire was used on a grade herd,
tne heifers produced so pounds more
butterfat per year than their dams.
The Commercial Club
1t may seem almost impossible for
each member here to use this advice
in his local community. The question
that presents itself to you is, "How
can this be accomplished ?" In al
most every city and town in the
United States the business men,
lankers, merchants and even clergy
nen belong to the commercial club.
The duty Of this club is to promote
business in their city or town. They
are willing to give bonus to a man
Ifacturing plant to come to their
;ity, Why? Because this establish
nent will employ a number of men
and women. More men and their
antilles in the city mean more busi-
1ess to the members of this club. The
policy is all right and should be en-
outraged, but this same Commercial
Tub overlooks the fact that adjoin-
ng the city are hundreds of manu-
featuring plants that are inefficient
md are not turning out the quantity
md quality Of products they should.
md hence. are not adding to the
community as much wealth as they
night. These plants are the farms
and the machines are the dairy cows
that will take the feed produced on
shese farms and manufacture it into
milk. These farms can be brought
Up to greater efficiency by your
Commercial Club becoming active in
his work and establishing depart
nent Of Dairy Improvement. This
department should give advice relat-
'ng to dairying, bring the farmers
ogether at picnics, judge dairy cat
lie and dairying products and help
the farmers in improving their stock
~ cooperative community breeding.
The butterfat records and breeding
'ecords can be kept by an assistant
iecretary Of the Commercial Club.
The farmers that are in this cooper
ative community breeding associa-
ion con nay their dues to him and
he Commercial Club will be more
Efficient to advance business in their
ocal community.
Farmers are Business Men
AT Centralia, Illinois, the Com
nercial Club has taken in the far
ners as business men and they have
tarted Cooperative Guernsey and
Jersey Breeders Association. This
1ody Of men are also boosting" the
ocal creamery and the Merchants
State Bank is helping the farmers to
purchase pure bred sires and high
grade dairy cows to improve their
larry herds. Another example Of
business building is at Trenton, No.
The business men of this little city,
and the business men of the sur
rounding country, have rejuvinated
their Commercial Club. They call
their plan the Trenton Idea" and
say: at simply means that in this
twentieth century of commercitl su-
premacy and agricultural efficiency,
the farmer and the business man
must unite and cooperate in the full
lest sense of the term" They have
stimulated business in the local COM
munity, better roads are the direct
result, and the farmers and merch-