The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-12-21
MILK BEST FOOD
FOR HUMAN RACE
SCIEN NTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS
SHOW cow is BIG FACTOR
IN HEALTH

Boise-Scientific investigation has
shown that milk is superior to any
single food for promoting growth
and maintaining the health Of the
human race, according to Carl E.
Johnson of Idaho Falls, director of
the Idaho State seed show to be
held at Burley January to 13.
Dairying, he said, has many benefits
and it leads to a better nourished
rural and city population
''Hogs and poultry are almost
necessary adjuncts to dairying,v he
said, land they add two other sour
ces of revenue to the farm income.
By keeping COWS the fertility of the
farm is maintained and a permanent
agriculture established. Fertile soils
pave the way for large and profitable
crops, which in turn makes comfort
able bank balances. Most everyone
who owns livestock tries to improve
upon them Improved livestock calls
for better buildings and homes.
Provides Employment
improvements of this character
start many other industries, such as
mills, factories and the various dis
tributing agencies. The manufacture
and sale of dairy products in and Of
themselves provide employment for
many and call for a great investment
in buildings, machinery and special
transportation.
s'By serving the needs of the dairy
COW and letting her serve ours an
endless chain of activities is turned
loose.
"Granting the foregoing, the next
question concerns the individual dairy
man. If dairying is profitable, to
what extent is it profitable and un-
der what conditions? Merely pur-
chasing a bunch of COWS and pro-
ceeding to milk them will not neces-
sarily make person wealthy Cows
must fit themselves into peculiarities
and special conditions of every farm
before they are profitable. Unless the
individual dairyman can sense the
that should exist between
his cows and his farm operations, he
is quite likely to be disappointed in
them.
Cows Good FOragers
'In rainy sections timber lands,
waste lands of one kind or another,
and lands which are distant from
market, COWS can be used to gather
the forage in the inaccessible and un-
LiIIable parts of the farm and convert
the same into product having
cash value The theoretical limit in
these cases is the number of cows
these waste lands will carry.
I'm highly cultivated areas, such
as irrigated Idaho, conditions for
1airying are quite different Aside
from cleaning up the fields in the
fall and taking the slack out of the
labor in the winter time, the COW
must use products which already have
4 market value and labor which can
De utilized elsewhere. 1t makes her
4 competitor of such crops as grain,
nav. beets and various other crops
which may be grown on the farm;
md unless she can take the feed
rom an acre of ground and make it
-eturn larger dividends than the same
acre devoted to the production OF
some of the crops named above, the
lumber of cows that can be profit
,blv carried on farm will be re-
luced to the few that can be carried
Is moderate chore.
Conserves Waste Feeds
at REQUIRES COW of extraordinary
producing ability to pay for both feed
nd labor, to pay interest on invest
pent and depreciation and leave
profit But as means OF conserv-
ng waste feeds and utilizing labor
O the fullest she is unexcelled Con-
idered in this connection and bear
ng in mind that dairy products are
marketed continuously and In small
mounts, which readily lend them
elves to the upkeep of the family,
here are practically no farms which
would not be benefited by keeping
few cows