The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-20
Dairy Industry
Shows Big Gains
COMMUNICATIONS FROM 1900
BANKERS SHOW FAITH IN
BALANCED FARMING.

Half the territory in the Ninth Fed
eral Reserve district has increased
the number of dairy cattle acquired
by farmers in the last year.
Communications to the Northwest
Dairy Exposition committee from
1900 bankers throughout the north
west showed faith in balanced farm
ing, according to a compilation of the
figures.
The northwest is destined to become
the greatest dairy region in the world,
these officials of the. Northwest Dairy
Exposition said. Today many Sec
tions which usually are recognized as
one-crop districts, list themselves as
dairying regions.
These figures and facts obtained
from bankers are to be used to adj
vantage in the Northwest Dairy Ex-
position, which is to be conducted
simultaneously with the Minnesota
State Fair, which begins August 80.
Judgment of 1,460 bankers was that
there is no danger of a reaction
against diversified farming and dairy
ing in their communities. A COM
paratively small number, PIT, said
that there is a slight possibility of a
reaction. Most of the latter replies
come from sections which have had
little experience with dairy animals.
The exposition officials said the
trend of the movement to replace
scrub dairy animals with purebreds
or grades is favorable. Seventy-three
per cent of the sections in which the
information was complied had con-
Quoted purebreed sire campaigns to
increase the milk production of the
progeny of scrub cows. Twenty-seven
per cent of the communities had not
conducted such a campaign, but most
of them were making plans for one.
The demand for grade cows, that
is the offspring of a scrub cow and a
purebred sire, is much greater than
the demand for purebred animals in
most sections.
sections from which the statistics
were gathered are as follows: 1349
bankers said that dairying predomi-
mated in their section; 1850 said gen.
eral farming; $50, corn and hogs;
484, beef cattle; 464, wheat; and 1856,
grazing. Many of the replies listed
two or even three Of these types.
Correct feeding of dairy animals
with homegrown feeds, and parti-
cular emphasis placed on balanced
ration" was the problem most of the
bankers <told the committee, which
confronts the average farmer who is
keeping fairly good cows.
In accordance with these sugges-
tions, the Northwest Dairy Exposi-
tion committee is planning an exhibit
of five. grade cows which show from
so to rs per cent increase in net pro-
fit when fed on feeds such as could
be grown on any average farm in the
northwest, over a previous period of
two years when they were fed on the
farm with prepared feeds.
These five cows have been on test
at the University farm, ST. Paul, for
more than year.
Along with these cows will be an
exhibit of the various kinds of feeds
which can be grown successfully in
the northwest.
More than 1000 bankers said the
consumption of dairy products with
in their own counties could be doubled,
and in some cases trebled, if the milk
supply was sufficient to care for Il.
Five hundred ninety six said that the
farmers in their community were
shipping milk from the county, but
undoubtedly the consumption within
the county could be increased if the
economic factor of higher prices paid
in the cities did not draw the mix
and cream from the section.