The Glenwood post., 1923-03-22
Bossy Feeds the Family and Keeps
the Farm Free From Mortgage on
the Eastern Slope
why NOT IN GARFIELD COUNTY

For some time past, The Post editor
has been of the opinion that our peo-
pie who are looking for practical
way out of the present financial strin-
gency would do well to pin their faith,
to a very largo extent, to the humble
dairy cow. In adopting this view we
are taking into consideration the fact
that the dairy program is not especial
ly popular with the majority of our
farmers, and in fact that it has been
more or less repulsive to those who
have been seriously and heavily inter-
ested in the range cattle business, or
those who have grown potatoes or
some other crop extensively and sue
cessfully for several years. These peo-
pie have had good revenues from their
annual crops, and they have not taken
kindly to the dairy business, which
looked small and insignificant to them.
They became accustomed to dealing in
dollars by hundreds and thousands at
the end of the year, and therefore the
matter of a few dollars coming in reg
ularly each week did not appeal to
them. They looked upon it as small
business, aside from the drudgery in
volved in taking care of mich cows,
in way that cows must be taken
care of before they can be considered
profitable. But time, that great level
or of all things, has brought about a
great revolution in Colorado, and our
farmer friends are now taking off their
hats to the humble dairy cow, and ad-
rli.tipg her importance in the rural
economy of the state.
Nc better proof of the Importance
which the dairy cow plays in the fl
nancial program of the state can be
found than the fact those communities
in tho state which enjoy the greatest
degree of prosperity today are the
communities in which the dairy COW
is given considerable attention.
If our farmer friends of the Eastern
Slcpc can and do make a real success
of dairying why can't we of the West
ern Slope afford to give more atten.
tion to this industry than we have
done heretofores
Concerning the success of the indus
try in portion Of the Eastern Slope
country, Earl ]. Cooper of Illinois has
the following interesting article in a
recent issue of Hoard IS Dairyman, the
leading dairy publication in the United
States:
There are still few buffalo alive
in the state of Colorado-relics of the
old days, but not the kind we used to
read about when Indians held sway
and "scalped" at will. The buffalo
of today are fed by man and thousands
wire fence and take pictures of the
famous "historic cow'' of the plains.
"Ruffalo Bill" of wild western
fame IS no more-except in memory.
AT .he top of Mt. Lookout, twenty
miles from Denver, rests this far
famed scout and Indian fighter. Be-
low his resting place for miles and
miles, as far as one can see, are fer
tile fields. Alfalfa grows in Lux
urious manner in these fields. Instead
Of the great herds of buffaloes, even
instead of great herds of range cattle,
we see the dairy COW, and chief Of the
dairy COW in Colorado is the Holstein-
Friesian.
How times have changed! The West
crn Live Stock show at Denver now
has an up-andcoming dairy depart
ment. There, the fat classes predom
mate to some extent in the show ring
but the dairy classes are fast gaining
their places.
Dairying has unlimited possibilities
in many sections of Colorado. To bs