The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-05
DAIRY TRAIN

The Dairy Special made its thir
tieth stop at Blackfoot Wednesda.
morning, having demonstrated a
four towns in Wisconsin, ten IL
Minnesota, six in Montana, and thi
made the tenth one Of the thirty
seven to be made in Idaho. In tn,
three days since they crossed thu
Idaho line they have booked volun
tary orders for three carloads Of
Wisconsin cows and sires, and the
interest taken everywhere in getting
high bred stock indicates that the
Idaho orders booked by the time
the tour is finished will make 8
trainload. c. C. Gigneau, the agri-
culturist for the Union Pacific syS
tenn predicts that the demonstration
train will be responsible for the ship
nent of a thousand cows and three
sires into Idaho this season, selected
from the best herds in Wisconsin.
When the demonstration train
stops in a town they Immediately
set up a section of portable gang
plank and begin marching the ami
mails off the cars, and the speakers
the different breeds and types.
Young people take special interest
in these talks and explanations, and
follow the speakers closely. At
Blackfoot a boy five years old, little
Dee Fjelsted, selected a Jersey calf
as his special object of attention
and proudly led it into the ring for
exhibition and analysis when called
for. The speaker said it was doubt
full whether the older persons, ac-
customed to using the lariat and the
branding iron would ever become
successful dairymen, but that the
youth and maidens in the crowd will
be the mainstay of the Idaho dairy
industry of tomorrow. He advised
that beginners, whether young or old,
should not go into the dairy bust
ness, but that they should grow into;
start on small scale and learn the
business, and increase in volume as
they proved themselves proficient
1t would be just as grave a mistake
to do dairying on large scale on
farm as to specialize on wheat or
hay or any single line of production.
The Investigation of products, rails
ing one to sustain the other, making
the soil factory for plant life and
the COW factory for dairy products,
the hog factory for meat products
and the hen a factory for poultry
products was the keynote. To push
any one to the exclusion of others
would be dangerous practice. The
dairy COW works just as hard to
convert her daily ration into milk
as team of horses works to deliver
It's load, and she must be given every
facility and every courtesy that will
aid her in this peculiar vocation
that of converting plant life into
milk
While the farmers and their fam
lies listened to talks on dairying,
bankers and others gathered in
to listen to w. A. Won Berg
If the Wisconsin Bankers Farmers
Exchange of Mosinee, Wisconsin,
explaining how federal loans can be
obtained to finance the buying of
larry stock, by the farmers and
bankers joining forces in co-opera-
ion. Arrangements were made for
his to be taken up thru the activi-
les of H. B. Snodgrass of Black
DOT, for this locality. The Black
DOT Commercial Club is holding a
series of meetings in the country
districts of Bingham County looking
o a closer study of the needs of the
armers and the individual ability,
paving the way to placing more
power in the hands of those who
lave proved their ability to use it
This locality is pro-
use in its expressions Of apprecia-
ion of the offer of the state admin
the work of the railroad
officials and the men of Wisconsin
Who have pioneered in the work of
bringing the cowless man of Idaho
INTO touch with the surplus cow of
he Badger state, and for the activi-
les of local organizations looking to
he possible financing of those who
lesire to increase their dairying ac-
ivities 1t is conceded that these
activities have set the dairy industry
head ten years in one.
The Addresses
Each of the FIVE breeds of cattle
vas represented in the talks by an
Expert, and each speaker set forth
he strong traits or characteristics OF
hat breed. The Ayrshire was re-
presented as good sized, hardy
ype, giving milk that is richer than
he Ho1steins but not so great In
Quantity, yet greater in quantity
han the Jerseys and not SO rich as
he Jersey milk. They are natives
# the highlands of Scotland and
lave beef value because of their
ize.
The Guernseys are above medium
ize, have a record for rich milk in
quantity, sufficient
ize to make good values for beef
yhen slaughtered, and their milk
as a rich golden tint.
The milk strain Shorthorns COM
inc beef and milk values, being
muscular and round, but what they
ain in beef values is largely lost
n milking values.
The Holstein is breed two thou
and years old, developed in Holland
y continuous selection that began
nth the Christian era and is still
eng followed. They are large and
OnV give great nuantitV of milk