Newark post., 1919-07-16
Dairy Industry

keen analysis of the evolution Of
the Dairy Problem, which is well
worth reading. Under the title
when the Cows Come Home," the
writer says:
MANY reader of these lines
can recall, with the clearness of
yesterday, that early hour of a
summer evening which spelled
milking time. Many man now
knee-deep in the work and respon-
sibilities of life remembers-with
a feeling that has changed might
lily with the years-how the bare
foot village boy who was himself
went complaining to the pasture
always it was just the time when
the ball game got fiercest or some
"feller" suggested swim-to
bring home the one or more gentle
faced creatures that waited pa.
tiently near the rail gate.
'"That was thirty or forty years
ago. The milk-givers that answer
ed the tap Of a maple switch, and
even then took their own time to
jog up the dusty road, were not
much to boast of, in most cases.
There was a bull pen at the county
fair each autumn, to he sure, but
the cows were seldom in evidence,
except at few of the bigger fairs
where a $40 premium looked good
to man who was getting 2 or 3
cents quart for whole milk, when
he could sell it!
"The average farmer knew little
about pure breeds, and cared little.
Had any one told him the time
would come when a cow would sell
for $4,000, he would have dropped
dead.
"'Cows is cows was his creed.
'Milk's milk!' Buy one of the first
for $40 or S25 and get from her
as much of the second as she would
give-'take what's sent without
complaint, nor wish you had what
you amt got.'
Even then, however, there were
men here and there who knew the
value of blooded stock and tried
to make others see it. They knew,
from experience, that it cost as
much to feed a slant-sided scrub
as to feed thoroughbred, and that
the latter responded with two or
three times as much milk as the
former.
"At the present time every scrub
cow in the country is an item OF
expense to each 'of us. For this
great army of such incompetents
stands in the way of more and
cheaper milk. And were it not for
the constantly increasing army of
pure-bred stock, we would near the
shadow of prohibitive prices for
this elemental food.
"That is why men of vision, es-
pecially those who were raised or
farms. have of late become so in
: terested in replacing these slacke,
cows with dependable producers
Meaning of Dairy Industry
to Nation
! 1--WE doubt if the average Amerl
can-even the average farmer
, appreciates the full meaning of the
;. dairy industry to this nation. For
large as it looms when expressed
in dollars, it has still more vita
: significance.
, "In the first place, milk and it:
q varied byproducts are as necessary
to mental and moral progress a:
to physical sustenance. Science
> has shown conclusively thst mill
is one of the mainsrays of civiliza
9 tion. The backward peoples arr
. those who lack it. The progressive
!, peoples are those who make larg'
q use of it in the daily diet.
! "In the second place, the yer.
q foundation of our country's agri
cultural wealth is based upol
r. dairying,' as a noted soil exper
. has said, because it is the only
. source of income on our farms
! which does not draw the fertilit.
], out of the soil.' Indeed, the COW
q not only does not deplete the soil
y but actually improves it and help
:, to make it more fertile.
:, Furthermore, one of this ma
tion's prime obligations to tn
world now is to make every effor
to relieve the widespread shortag
r of milk and dairy products caused
by the war. Within the last fiv'