The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-06-29
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DAKOTA DA|RY|NG
STATE COMMITTEE PLAN WIDE
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN
FOR DAIRY
SEVEN BROOMNGS MEN ON COMMITTEE
Speaker Says South Dakota Can Com
pete with Wisconsin Within
Six Months

Believing that South Dakota is ad-
vantageously situated for the develop
ment OF dairying as a major industry
Of the state and a sound and success
full basis for greater prosperity, the
state committee Of dairy development
outlined general plans for a statewide
publicity and educational campaign at
its meeting held in Sioux Falls last
Saturday. The following prominent
BroOkings men are members of this
state committee: A. p. Ryger, state
dairy expert; p. J. Scarbro, state club
leader; |. j. Bibby, president of the
ice cream manufacturers association;
w. +. Kumlien, director of extension;
+. w. Hall, county agent leader; Paul
Kieser, professor of journalism: H.
NJ. Jones, extension dairy specialist.
Governor McMaster and other promin-
ent state officials and heads of vari.
Gus associations are included in the
membership.
The committee recommended that a
chairman be appointed for each
county in the state whose duty it shall
be to promote local interest in the de.
velopment of dairying. They also
urged that large delegations be sent
to the national dairy show that they
may see some Of the great possibilities
of dairying as an industry. 1t was
suggested that these delegations be
composed of leading farmers, breed.
ers, bankers and business men.
That the important thing to be con.
sidered in taking up this problem is
not merely to see that the farmer gets
blooded stock on his farm, but to see
that he is aided in whatever way is
most practical, Governor McMaster
told the gathering.
IL am not interested in securing
fullblood stock on the farm in ITSELF"
he declared, What l am interested in
is getting the farmer to have stock
OF his farm which will make him an
owner Of the property. We want to
see the young men of the state own
their farms. Perhaps l am a little too
practical in this matter. But | know
of a farmer who stocked his farm with
tullblood stock and today he is un-
able to pay his debts. Other farmers
in that community who did not go in
for the high priced stock are in a DO
sitiOn to meet their obligations. l
should like to see a program to slim
ulate the using of six or eight cows on
each farm.
IL am in favor Of seeing farmers
obtain blooded stock but we want to
determine whether in all cases IL will
be practical for them to go in tor it
extensively"
A number Of bankers at the meet
ing declared that in all instances that
they considered it a safe investment
to loan money to farmers who were
going into dairy farming. Some of
the members believed that the COM
mittee should take steps to aid the
farmer in buying blooded stock. The
members Of the committee represent
ing the banking industry will attempt
to have the governor of the state in
duce the banks to loan money at low
interest rates to farmers for the pur-
pose of buying dairy cattle.
Mr.. Skinner called attention to the
fact that there were SO, 0O0, 900 cattle
in the United States and that only a
small proportion of these were blood
ed stock and for that reason the state
could not expect to secure a large
number OF purebred cattle in a short
time.
A practical way of building up herds
in the state is to obtain community
bulls, he declared. He also recon-
mended the community handling of
milk.
II a proper development ;s made
along this line we car put South Da-
kota in competition with Minnesota
and Wisconsin within six months" he
declared.