The Carlisle independent., 1918-07-25
WHY LITTLE ROCK PEOPLE
 LIKE LONOKE COUNTY

The people of Little Rock are very partial to Lonoke county and to the Grand Prairie section especially and they have good reason for their at titude. They depend upon that sec tion for their milk and butter supply and are therefore vitally interested in the welfare of those living in this district.
 Realizing that the very life of the citizenship of city depends upon the quantity and the purity of the milk supply, Little Rock people have been taking a peculiar interest in Grand Prairie enterprises, feeling in fact as though the entire section was rather part of the city. For this reason they have encouraged every effort made by dairy farmers to bet ter their herds and secure a more abundant supply of milk, feeling as though they were personally in- terested in having fine milk stock on their farms.
 Demand For Milk Not Met Grand Prairie milk and especially | that which is shipped from Carlisle l is in high demand in Little Rock. The market is not being supplied with near as much as is demanded and the cry is continually going out for more | I,o at hn is so much below the demand that movements have been considered looking towards securing the estab- | lishment of more dairies, either at Carlisle, or in some other convenient section. In considering the estab- I lishment of more dairy farms, many .city folks" have become students of the dairy industry and all kinds of l talk about the advantages of fine stock in preference to the small milk giving grade cows used by so many, may be heard even on the street corners.
 | There are number of Little Rock 1 families who are turning their eyes wistfully towards Grand Prairie with the intention of going into the dairy farming business in the near future. There is one thing of note among those who are longing for an opportu- nifty to live out in the open on the beautiful farms in Lonoke county and conduct dairy farms and that is the determination they have to work towards building better dairy farms and the purchase only of heavy milk ing stock, as with the tremendous market for milk, right here next to the dairy farming section, they are convinced that will be the most prof itable way of conducting such ventures.
 The use of milk is becoming more general than ever and the demand for it's increased production is be- coming a serious problem. The economy of the good dairy COW in relation to the cows ability to pro- duce animal food economically is discussed forcibly by the Depart ment of Agriculture in Circular No. S5 in part as follows:
 Why the Cow Is Most Profitable
 Two facts stand out prominently as reasons for the increased produc- tion and use of milk. The first is that milk as purchased on the market usually supplies food material to- gether with the growth-producing elements more economically than either meat or eggs. The second reason is that the dairy COW is the most economical producer of animal food One great law of food conservation is to turn inedible feeds in the cheapest possible manner. The dairy COW will utilize coarse materials, inedible by humans, such as cornstalks, grass, hay, etc, and will turn them into milk which is suitable for human food. Other farm animals also are converters of coarse roughage into edible foods, but not so efficient as the dairy COW.