The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-09-01
pure-Blooded Dairy Herds Bring
Prosperity to Many Farmers.
Potent Factor in Making This
The Greatest Nation in World.

a
oheo Babcock, of the University of
WISCONSIN, discovered the famous
pobcock test for fat content of milk,
p PING was a farm sideline noted
1h;e4v for driving country boys to
,rr It wasn't on a business basis
because every cow was as good as
INV other COW as far as the average
a. amer knew. Milk was just milk. No
nne thought much of its quality nor
Ins1th giving potentialities. Milk test
~ Tor production increase through
b ne up heavy milk and butter fat
oroducers had not been developed. A
p,nIl- cow" was a female of the COW
Ind that was fresh" Pedigrees
l,aant nothing but something for fan
-, farmers to fool with.
Then came the Babcock test that
showed how rich" the cream was and
@oarmitted business buying OF milk and
pream on its fat value, writes Earle
NJ Gage in the Pennsylvania Grit.
Followed quickly the scales on
which the weighing of the milk from
each cow made possible for every
cow to be put on paying basis and
tbe "boarders" and 'loafers" weeded
ont al the herd. Pure-bred sires came
into their own. Each bulls family tree
wa, was examined all along the branches
ior production records of his female
ancestors, his sisters, and later his
daughters. Thus, performance was
made the great acid test of breeding
dairv herds up from little importance
~ greatness. The cash value of the
f9milv cow doubled and tripled al
most over night. In 80 years the
American dairy COW has developed
from wabbly-legged "critter" to a
S5OOOO00,000 blue-blooded heller that
promises prosperity to nation such
as history has never seen.
Diagnosed, it is little wonder that
dairying developed rapidly into a bus
mess outstripping every other line OF
farming in America No other line OF
farming could be figured on such a
certain basis for returns. Dairy farm
er, and dairy centers and dairy states
have prospered. Their prosperity has
been passed along to the retail cloth
Ter and milliner, to the country bank
er to the railroads serving these COM
munities and to the manufacturers and
commercial organizations serving the
retailers from the great centers OF
population. In fact, dairy prosperity
materially affects millions OF people,
and our agriculture is sound indus
trv because it is built upon the diver
sfcation created by the dairy COW.
Onca n Native of Forests
This dairy cow is the most produc-
five animal in the world. Our 10000
900 dairy COWS, on nearly 100000
farms. produce every II months over
S5O00, 100000 of added wealth. From
the day the first COWS were landed on
American soil, at Vera Cruz, Mexico,
in 1525-four centuries ago-there has
been a rapid increase in the dairy IN
dustry, its most efficient stage being
in the past three decades, since 1t has
been an exact science.
Few Of us appreciate the great debt
we owe to the dairy queen. During
the dark ages of savagery and barbar-
ism we find her early ancestors ma
tives of the forests of the Old World.
As the bright days of civilization pen
etrated the darkness of that early pc
rod and man called upon the COW
she came forth from her secluslon to
share in the efforts that gave US
greater nation and a more enlightened
people
For 1000 years the queenly COW has
revealed her allegiance to man, re-
spending nobly to all that was. done
for her. In 1893, when Columbus made
his second voyage to America, the
cow came with him-and from that
time to the present day she has been
most potent factor in making our
country the greatest nation in the
world.
Her sons helped till the soil OF our
ancestors and slowly moved the prod
ucts of the farm to market. They
went with man into the dense forests
Of the New World, helped clear them
for homes, and made cultivation pos
slble for coming generations-andi
when the tide of emigration turned
westward these oxen hauled the be-
longings of the pioneers across sun
scorChed plains; over mountains TO
new lands of promise beyond.
Thus, the cow has become mans
greatest benefactor, here in the Unit
ed States. Hail, wind droughts and
floods may come, destroy our farm
crops and Danish our hopes, but, from
what remains the COW manufactures
the most nourishing and life-sustaln-
ing Of foods.
The good dairy COW will produce
much more human food from the same
amount of feed than will the beet
steer She converts rough forage, un..
ut for human food, into milk, food
absolutely necessary for the growth
OF children and the health OF adults
Experiments have shown that growing
animals can not live without the stun
uating elements found abundantly IN
milk and its by-products.
The dairy COW is the one great con-
server of our soil fertility One ton OF
wheat sold by the farmer represents
loss OF more than So worth OF fertility:
In other words, the farm supply OF
essential fertility has been decreased
that much One ton of butter, on the
other hand, contains less than 81 cents
worth OF plant food, which means that
the land has suffered $3.50 less than
with the production of ton OF wheat.