The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-03-03
DAIRY MEETINGS
ARE BIG SUCCESS

The dairy meeting which were held
at Valley City and Noltimier on Mon
day, February 21, under the auspices
of the Barnes County Farm Bureau
were we'll attended. T. x. Calnan:
county agent, told of the work that
has been carried on in the county and
several prominent Barnes county far
mers expressed their, belief in dairy
ing. Among them were: Cornelius
Vanderwerf, Tower City; Harley Nc
Lain, Eckelson; John Davidson, Leal;
Fred Getchell, Valley City. These men
all gave profitable short talks on the
Benefit of the Dairy Cow" .
L. L. Oldham, secretary of the Wis
consin Holstein Freisan Association
was a guest at each of the meetings
and spoke quite extensively on dairy
ing in North Dakota. Mr.. Oldham is
a guest of the county agents, breed
ers and dairymen Of the state and he
has made addresses at Valley City
Jamestown, Grafton, Hamilton. Grand
Forks and Fargo. Good sized, enthus-
iastic crowds, resembling those at VAL
ley City and Noltimier, were present.
Mr.. Oldham said in part: s5 &s
I am glad of the opportunity to. be
with you and talk to you men on dairy
ing. You are beginners in a new ven-
ture.. Some day you will be leaders
in creditable industry. You realize
the greatness and the seriousness of
the present agricultural problem in
North Dakota. You won't. be disap-
pointed in the dairy cow and her abil-
ity to help sustain your standing in
statehood. ~.
"For miles ahead, as far as the
human can see, stretch the unbroken
fields. Stoneless, treeless, wasteless-
nature has been good to you and no
soil surpasses that of your state. So
bounteous has been the stores of fer
tility that man took therefrom his
harvest with little thot of the morrow.
Big crops and a profitable price, based
on a big acreage per unit of man pow
er let him go his way unheeded.
"Let US point out an object lesson
taken from state very similar to
yours. A state which depends upon its
agricultural resources as do you. A
state that has passed through the
period Just as you are
doing. A state that has found itself
and one in which diversified farming
permanent agriculture, based on live
stock practic has made good. Yet we
have a soil ,less fertile than yours
with more waste and more stones and
hills in one acre than you have in two.
Silage, corn and coarse cereal grow
ing will do as we'll with you as with
us. You have access to excellent mar
kets here in the, Northwest. All is
favorable and your viewpoint should
be we'll fortified with optimism of a
nature.
"Iu 1919 (the 1921 figures are not
available in, their entirety) Wisconsin
produced $277. 100000 worth of dairy
products. Included in this production
is 70 per cent of the cheese Of Ameri-
ca, one-tenth of the butter and the
bulk Of the condensed milk, It has
1852 cheese factories. 762 creameries
and 81 condensaries, making it pos
sible for our dairymen to produce 5l,..
500 pounds of milk, 583 pounds OF
butter, 1850 pounds of cheese. 23lO
pounds of condensed milk and 1881
pounds of ice cream every minute OF
every eight hour day for 365 days in |
the year.
7>"One million eight hundred Sixty
four cows are the machines that con-
vert our farm grown crops into milk
andn this milk, going into these differ !
ent dairy products is paid for.
"Each month thus makes steady
and sure income for the farmers in
our state. Marketed in this way we
not only get a sure market for our
crops, but we get the highest possible
price. This year it's much above the
prevailing market and price. and close
to it and not over the cost Of produc-
ton. This fact is not holding in any
Of the agricultural states of America
In addition to furnishing market for
this good animal, the dairy COW, is
keeping up the fertility Of our land
and making it more productive day
by day as the years go by"