Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-08
Make Dairyins a Community
Project

made the greatest profits in dairy
ing, they have gone into the in
dustry by communities. That is,
the industry can be made to yield
quicker and more certain profits
when the whole neighborhood is
working together in the matter than
if only farmer here and there is
engaged in it.
Dairving lends itself easily to CO.
operative effort, and we are coming
to know that the future of farming,
both production and marketing, is
along the line of cooperative organ
ization.
So in getting into dairying, let us
work with each other.
Starting with the dairy herd, it
is not necessary for one farmer to
buy pure bred sire, but let several
farmers club together and buy one.
Community breeding associations
have frequently solved the dairy
sire problem and solved it with small
expense to the farmers.
In taken up dairying, it is econ
my for the whole community to
agree to adopt the same dairy breed.
What particular breed to adopt is
not so important because any of the
standard dairy breds are good, but
the important thing is to agree on
breed and then stick to it.
If the neighborhood is on certain
breed basis and different groups Of
farmers have co-operated in the
purchase of sires, after two or three
years the sires can be exchanged
and passed from one group to
another. This brings about a big
saving and ia a maker So
let us take up dairying by COM
..munities and, if possible, work with
the same breed or with just as, few
breeds as possible.
In previous article, we pointed
out that it did not necessarily require
big investment or lot of money
tomake the dairy start. This system
of community effort shows again
the ease with which we can get
started if there is the will and the
desire to start. We would advise
against the purchase OF pure bred
:, COWS by the new dairyman. Use
the common COWS but start at ONCE
to grade up the herd with pure
bred sire of the dairy type. These
sires can now. be bought at from
$4,000 to $4,000 When pur-
chased by a group of farmers, the
expense is trifling. Then the whole
community co-operates and several
breeding associations are formed,
the sire needs of the territory are
taken care of for years at very small
<:ost per farmer.
II our community could start, the
,matter of getting good dairy cows,
productive enough to be highly
profitable, would be only a matter
Of time and of our intelligent effort.
From time to time the poor cows
could be welded out and sold. Each
generation of calves under this pro-
cess would be better producers than
their mothers. If the sires are
selected carefully and with the milk
production records Of their families
as the determining factors in the
purchase, it will be but few years
until on each farm of this community
there will be herd of dairy COWS,
just as splendid producers and
money. makers as any in the famed
dairy regions Of Minnesota, and the
cost to the community will have
been 30 small as hardly. to be con-
sidered.
Thisis the common-sense, practi-
cal way to get into the dairy bus
mess. It is better to grow into it
than to jump into it. AS we grow,
all the problems Of feed and the
adjustment Of our farms and our
marketing to the new kind Of farm.
ing will work out easily and natural
II. We shall be taking no chances
Aut we shall be steadily working
toward the thing we want, to get
our farms onto q money. making
A,ssis that will be dependable year
after year ~Cnntrihuted