The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-02
EXHIBITS AT DAIRY SHOW

The United States department of az riculture will participate in the National Dairy show at Chicago, October to F, not only to honor the dairy COW, but also to further the principles and prac- tices of good dairying, and to transmit to tfe thousands of dairymen and farm CTS expected to assemble there the most recent results of COW handling milk production and dairy management inves- tigations of the dairy division of the bu- reau of animal industry. Other branches of the department also will show their work for the dairy industry.
 One of the most interesting of the dairy division exhibits will show the exact amount and kinds of food required to keep COW for one year. A farm scene will show a hayStack and a fodder rick, containing the necessary amounts of dry forage, silo, 5 feet in diameter and Il feet high, which will hold the sil- age necessary for the COW, and large pile of ear corn and the mill feed in sacks which the COW will eat during the F months. Furthermore, a part of the area will be sodded to illustrate the amount of pasturage necessary to main tain the COW. A huge milk bottle 41z feet wide and feet high, with a ca pacity of 60o0 pounds of milk, will be used to illustrate the cows production lO compete tHe picture d COW anu CdlL of the type which would consume the feed and convert it into the amount of milk exhibited will be on hand. The amounts of feed and the milk supplied are actual averages of results obtained by the dairy division from practical tests with dairy farmers in northern Indiana. small milkhouse, wherein will be dem onstrated the proper methods of cooling g milk, is also part of this feature.
 | .1..u t-I exhibit from an educational standpoint will be that of the products of the Grove i City, Pa, creamery, which form the connecting link between the laboratory
 and the commercial creamery. These products are all made by processes
 worked out in the dairy division labor
 atories. and applied to actual factory conditions. Chief among them are va
 rious American-made cheeses of foreign 1 type, such as Swiss, Camembert, Roque- ! fort and Ricotta. Exhibits of butter
 packed for shipment to the tropics, cot | tage cheese, the manufacture of casein ! for commercial purposes, condensed skim
 milk in bulk and also a creamery labor
 atory in operation, demonstrating the
 actual tests of butter, milk and cream used in commercial concerns, also will i be shown.
 | A special booth will circulate informa- l tion about the better sires-better stock drive which the United States department of agriculture will conduct in co-opera-
 ton with the state agricultural colleges
 and other agencies, which began Octo-
 her 1. The plan is to provide an of
 fcial emblem, a sort of certificate, to 1 each owner of cattle. horses and asses. | hogs, sheep, goats or Toultry who uses only pure- bred sires, no matter if he
 or she possess only one animal of the
 classes of domestic stock specified. It is
 anticipated that the competitive spirit
 will be developed among farmers through | out the country to obtain the better
 sres'' emblem and in this way the scrub
 and mongre1 stocks will be driven far ther and farther into discard
 The dominant breeds of live stock in ! each county are to be determined and a livestock index of the country by
 counties will ultimately result from these statistics A breed will be called domi-