The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-18


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s.ysTliEl cow -"SOME FRIEND".
What would happen to Wisconsin, if all
the cows should be taken out of the state
some dark night? E. The deductions are
anazinzg as outlined by K. L.. Hatch Of
theconege of Agriculture. -. -.
The following editorial appeared in the
Wisconsin State: Journal and which bring
our Farmers and business men to realize
Nhatscondit might be developed to, in
this s,ssthe most adapted and natural dairy
ing section in the United States. ..,
ssc"One dollar-one hundred cents Of
good american money-the best in the
world! ..
/ The next time someone hands you dol
lar don't put it away without a pause. Just
remember for every dollar that changes
hands in Wisconsin, thirty cents comes
from the old dairy cow: Take the dairy
COW out Of Wisconsin and we would have
4eVenty cent dollars. Of course this means
that 80 per cent of all the income Of all
the people of this state is derived from the
dairy business.
). 6. s5s."Dairying is by far the biggest bus
mess in, Wisconsin. If by some unknown
magic the dairy cows of the state should
suddenly disappear there~is not a banker,
nor a manufacturer, nor business man
Of any sort from the humblest cobbler to
the ,Iordhests potentate, who would not I'M
mediately acall for "help." ~
Dane county is the largest dairy county
inthe world. She has more dairy cattle and
haSt d larger dairy output than any otner
county in the United States. Every time
church bells ring in a new Sabbath $780,
hos mr.
ta1esDane county dairy cows. No other
Dane, county factory turns out one hundred
3nHSfifty thousand dollars Of new wealth
s4ery week in the year!- = :: 80,
AE"There are but, four sources of new
wealth, the Mines, the forests, the, fisher
ks, and the farm. Dane county has neither
Soai nor oil; neither; silver nor, gold. her
forests have long since disappe peared.f. Her
single source of new wealth is her product
I've farms. Once mined, iron and Goa" are
gone forever, but the wealth of the soil is
perpetually self-renewing. The dairy COW
with rem arkable economy, takes the crud-
ger products Of the soil and converts them
INTO milk (: The one protective food in the
s} Without changing her land area or in
lcreasing her number of farms, or of farm
YRS or of dairy cattle, Dane county can
easily add another $4,000 week-and
Two and a half million a year to her wealth.
Hew? By better br.eding and better care
1T her dairy cattle. This is NO mere theory,
no wild guess, no idle boast; it can be done
,becauseit it has been done. State department
of agricultural statistics show that the an
nual average production of Dane county
coWssis less by over 1000 pounds than
those Of the best producing county in the
state, The average value of her cows is SIT
per head less than the cows of this same
county Why should this be true? Because
Danal county has, paid less latte tentloii ITO To-
hte: breeding and Improvement Of her dairy
cattle to the farms as has Wisconsin's most
dissertations, yet every adjoining county
hassfrom one to six. She has, until the last
year, had no organizations for the promo
tioh of dairy breds, and as result has less u
than sone-fourth as many purebred dairy .
cattle to- the fars as has Wisconsin's most
highly developed county. ..z,.. *.~Gs.$5 vi -
l. :: Let her bring breeding up. to this
standard and it will add nearly $40 to the
value Of each Of her rs, ,060 cows--a million
and a half in all! And by the same token
it will add another million dollars to the
annual return from the same number of
cows-two and a half million dollars in all!
It is all matter of organization and intel
ligent effort we'll expended. Here's to
Dane County's first ten million dollar in
dustry!" - -.
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