The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-10-24

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that has been made by the dairy in
tlnstry and by other industries that
are based upon it. But it does even
more than that-it points the way to
future developments, and in this the
United States Department of Ag1-
culture is taking an important part.
At the show held in st. Paul, MINI.
from October to Is, visitors had the
best opportunity ever afforded to get
a comprehensive view of the needs
and possibilities of the industry and
of the improvements and advantages
that have been made available thru
painstaking investigations. This year
IN illustrations, both graphic and
Photographic, these slogans were en-
phasized in the Government exhibits;
Better cattle and how to obtain them,
better products and how to produce
them, better markets and how to
reach them.
Life.sixe Models of Cows.
In a manner Of speaking, the COW
and the farm always hold the center
Of the stage at the National Dairy
Show, but at this one they were actu-
ally on the stage in lifelike models.
Instead of depending upon charts
and statistics, the salient points were
brought home to the observer BY
stage settings representing actual
farm scenes and cattle, of the kind
that usually go with the surround
ihgs, shown grazing in the painted
fields.
One farm oreathed comfort and
prosperity, and in its lush pastures
grazed cattle that showed the effect
of years of careful breeding. The
other was the kind of farm that in the
old days would have been known as
Farmer Slack's place. In its pastures
were nondescript cows-the kind that
too many farmers still keep but that
do very little toward keeping the far
mer and his family.
The reason for these two stage
farms, set side by side, was evident
the striking contrast Of abundance
and poverty emphasized the differ
ence in what may be expected from
good and poor cows, from poor sires
and sires bred from long line of
high-yielding ancestors. Poor animals
soon paint the whole farm in drab
colors, while good ones keep up the
fences and brighten the buildings.
The improvement is even more no.
ticeable in the bank account.
But this series of stage scenes that
the Department of Agriculture puts
on goes farther than merely to show
beautiful pictures Of success and
somber paintings of failure. 1t show
ed pictorially how farm community
may organize to obtain Improvement
at the lowest cost and in the shortest
practicable time. One stage showed
how the farmers in a community
grouped their farms into blocks and
organized bull association that re-
suited in a marvellous development in
the herds-shown in the records
which were posted at the side Of the
stage. On another stage was show
ring in which were pure-bred bulls,
ard another ring in which there were
10 scrubs. These models were exact
reproductions in miniature of real
animals, the purebreds representing
the bulls owned by the first coopera-
tive Ayrshire Bull Association of Am
erica, which took the place of the 19
scrubs depicted.
But this was only small part Of
the story Of milk production and mar
keting that was unfolded by the ar
tlst's brush and actual demonstra-
tions. Some of the questions answered
were these: What feed is needed to
make 100 pounds of milk? How can
undernourishment in children be elm
mated? How are bacterial counts of
milk made? What is the Better Sir
es-Better Stock" campaign and how
can a farmer avail himself of its ad-
vantages? What do certain germs
look like? What various things and
how much of each can be made from
100 pounds of milk? Is dairying more
profitable than formerly?