The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-12-03
!, Dairy Outlook
in New Jersey
Address Of Prof w. M. Regain, Dairy
Husbandman, New Jersey AgricuI-
turaI Experiment Station

Address OF Prof. w. M. Regan, Dalry
fiusbandman, New Jersey AgricuI-
turaI Experiment Station
The question of the dairy outlook in
New Jersey at present is rather large
one. The question of the dairy out
look in any community in these times
is a qestion which we cannot speak
about in any authoritative manner.
Facts and figures are not available
to show the number of cows that are
being sold, and the condition of the
dairy industry in general, because OF
the rapidly changing conditions that
we are having now as a result of the
Brunswick can tell from our expert
ences over the State, the dairy out
look in New Jersey is very bright.
There have not been any large num-
bers of good dairy COWS sold from the
dairy districts. There have been a
hummer of dairy cows sold, but I'M
questionably the comws that have
been sold are the COWS with medi-
OGRE ability of production. People are
not selling their. good COWS. They are
also, believe, in the dairy districts
raising more heifer calves than they
did before.
The thing that is necessary, to my
mind, for improvement of dairy con-
ditions in the next few years is more
cooperative dairying than we have
had before Our cooperative dairy
work in New Jersey has increased
very rapidly in the lat few years and
looks brighter now than it ever did
before / am speaking especially OF
the COW testing associations that are
operating in the State, and we have
decided that our best work can be
done through the COW testing associa'
tions. We are planning to make the
COW testing association fill bigger
place than it has filed in the past. In
the past about the only function of the
cow testing association, or at least the
main function, was to discover and
eliminate the improbable cow In
these times, when the cost of milk
production is such an important fac
tor in any community in getting fol
dairymen a just price for their milk
la system of record keeping that takes
INTO consideration something else be
les the elimination of the unprofit
Is COW is essential. With that in
wv, we are planning to install
tenn Of cost accounts with oul
nv record association wherever it is
ssible, so that it will be possible to
termine not only which COW is pay
4 9 and which COW is losing, but how
uch it costs to product quart Of
ilk. In that way the dairyman will
Ave correct figures at his command
howing the exact cost of milk produc
ION in his herd.
knother function that the COW test
association should perform, / be
bve. more than has been the case in
= past, is the cooperative buying Of
his. You would be surprised, in tax
survey of the feed prices in the
We of New Jersey, to see what &
lat difference there is in the price
different feeds within a radius o.
lew miles. We made such survey
t summer and found difference
the price of corn of $40 ton within
g State. OF course, that manifest!
unfair Somebody is either losing
honey on the corn that they are sell
be- or somebody is making a whole
10 of money. You will be safe in say
that the feedmen are not losing
" money, so some of them must bt
king a great deal of money. Tha
DIS true with all feeds. That fea
cannot be worked into the dair!
lord association quite as easily as
feature of cost accounting. be
he that it will be necessary to ge
bre cooperative and better co-opera
e diaries, in order to keep thu
mer in the dairy business.
here is another system of dairyins
is springing up. which is exactly
opposite to cooperative dairying
of corporation dairying. This,
k, will have considerable bear
in the future years on the mill
uction in the State. 1t is dairy
pn a large scale, where the indi
i farmer is not the big factor il