Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1922-08-25
WILL DAIRYING BE
OVER-DEVELOPED
"a Possibility so Remote No Man
Now Living Needs Worry"
Says Col. Skinner.

What's it all going to lead to?
Will the agitation for more dairy
cows be overdone? Can it be over
done? -
Two eminent authorities now have
come forward and answered the fear
in some folks minds that we might
have dairy cow stampede.
They are Hoard's Dairyman, the
veteran adviser Of American farmers
and Col. w e. Skinner, General
Manager of the National Dairy Elk
position to be held at the Twin Cities
October TIA.
Hoard's is the paper founded by
the late Gov. w. D. Hoard of Wis
consin, a pioneer in dairy develop
ment. 1t says editorially:
1.-The Minnesota Leader expresses
great concern regarding the effort
to get the farmers of the Northwest
to keep more dairy cows. 1t is afraid
of q dairy cow stampede. We con-
slider this paper is wasting its time
sounding the alarm against the dairy
cow to the Northwest. She never
has stampeded any country and has
never been oVerdone in any state" !"
mo greater argument can be made
for the dairy COW than to point to
the sections where she is kept in
large numbers and note how much
better the farmers are passing thru
the period of depression and read
| justment than they are in those Sec
tions following some other form Of
agriculture. The coming of the dairy
COW in Minnesota was a blessing and
| the southern part of the state which
has been in dairying longer than any
other section is still enjoying great
er prosperity than any other por-
ton"
Since the beginning of the dairy
industry a few timid souls have been
fearful that, dairying would be over
done. They have pointed out that if
every farmer kept dairy cows, dairy
products would become so cheap it
would become improbable to milk
cows. These men are undoubtedly
right in their contention, but where
they fail in their reasoning is that
not every farmer will accept a dairy
COW. We are of the opinion that the
Minnesota Leader has counseled
with fear and not with facts"
Colonel Skinner was interviewed
by newspaper reporter at his Office
in St. Paul on this subject. He said
notwithstanding the growth of
Cow Test Associations, the spread of
boy and girl calf clubs and all our
propaganda for production, we failed
to overtake the increasing market
for dairy products. Education in
health and nutrition, the availability
of clean, palatable dairy foods in al
most every public eating place and
producers as the milkmen and the ice
cream manufacturers and the steady
growth in population-all these op-
crate to keep the demand well ahead
of the supply. Over-production is a
possibility SO remote that no man
now living needs to worry about it,
Increase in the consumption of but
ter has followed increased production
this year as well as in the past, ac-
cording to Gilbert Gusler, writing in
The Farmer Charting the progress
of the butter market over four years
the author points to the effect that
receipts of butter in 1922 at the five
principal markets of New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and San Francisco
have held consistently above the av-
erage of the three preceding years.
Cold storage stocks at the beginning
1of 1922 were above the three-year
average for that time of. the year,
''but so broad was the demand that
cold storage holdings. were brought
below the three-year average during
this spring