Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-18
The Dairy Interests
Growing, Nov Sur
passing Mining Metals


BY raj Of experiments, special
demonstrations, class room lectures.
special dairy trains, and other activ-
tiles. says a Brookings press report,
Prof. G. Larsen and his assistants
have soaefectively preached the COS
pei of more dairying and better
farming" that the dairy and cream
cry business OF the state has grown
enormously during the past few
years.
A prominent railway division super
intendent .of the state asserts that
during the two years following the
first dairy train, the cream shipments
west of the river more than doubled.
In fact, the dairy cow has been the
making d western South Dakota.
The work of the college dairy de-
partment consists In ID teaching
about 40As4students each year most Of
whom gos,ack to the farms to spread
the gospel still further, and more than,
thirty of whom are operating success
full crearleries in the state; s(2) cor
respondence with farmers who write
in by the hundreds for special infor-
nation; I3) writing special articles
n delivering lectures upon request;
"a experimental work covering such
subjects LIZ manufacture ofEbetter but
ter in the state, effect of feeding aka
Ii water, testing all makes Of milking
machines. hereditary influence OF dam
and sire In milk and butter produc-
ton, and value of silage and other
feeds in milk production; and Coy ex-
ecutiVe work, including the manage
ment Of college dairy farm and herd
and operation of college creamery and
cheesery.
Just ten years ago only one student
was taking work in the dairy depart
ment. Last year a total of I'll stu
dents were studying the production or
manufacturing sides of dairying. One
sof Professor Larsen's earlier students
went back to the South Dakota farm,
bought a si1o and stocked the farm
with purebred cattle. Today this
Gus and have been influential in the
construction of So more silos in that
rome community.
The dairy department has made sev-]
seral important discoveries for the
good of the state. One is that the so
called aalkali disease" is not caused
by drinking alkali water as was COM
monty thought. It was found by the
department also that drinking alkaiil
water does not seriously effect dairy
products. This is the only college to
conduct an experiment OF this exact
character. The dairy department of
sthe college has also demonstrated for
the farmers of the state that the abil-
nty tc produce butterfai and milk is
hereditary, and that it is transmitted
Ythrough the sire as weN a through
che DAMN fact that by proper sell
aection of a sire the butter production
OF a daughter can be increased overt
her mother by more than 100 pounds
per year. That would mean many dol
lars for South Dakota's 400 900 dairy
COWS. 1t has also been demonstrated
by actual practice at the college that
it is practical and cheap to feed cows
solage and alfalfa the whole year
around rather than pasture on high
priced land.
In this article, we have avoided any
attempt to visualize the value of this
feature OF State college service in doll
and cents. We leave the readerl
to do that for himself. But taking in
to consideration the past and present
service and effect on future product
ton, the wealth of the state is in-l
s.rs sea almost beyond the power to-
calculate in cold figures. We do know,
however, that in ten years the dairy
business In South Dakota has increas-
ed from ss5,000,0 600 to s12. 100000 perl
year, which is now a greater sum than
that yielded by the mines of the state.
"a neN year is upon u.s. with new
duties, new conflicts, new trials and J
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES j. Guy
JeE.
Il never heard OF such a thing. She
borrowed my Rewderpun."
That is a loan often requested
among ladies"
But she used IT to touch up her
white shoes.s--KaAsas ely Journal.
Maybe shoes are high because they
are trying to reach up to the bottom
81 the skirt,-Florfda Times-Dn ion.
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