The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., May 14, 1910, DAIRY SPECIAL, Image 1

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A Farm and Home Weekly for the States of Mississippi,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
^ FOUNDED. 1895, BY DR. TAIT BUTLER. AT STARKVILLE. MISS.
Volume XV. No. 19. SATURDAY. MAY 14.1910. Weekly: $1 a Year.
WHAT THE SOUTH OFFERS THE GOOD DAIRYMAN
m wjiik / mu nas maae uenmark rich in the last twenty years ; it
MJ has tong kept the farmers of Holland and the Channel Islands
prosperous and contented; it has redeemed hundreds of
" worn-out” farms in the North Atlantic States and made them
fertile and profitable; in the Northwest, it has made, in many cases,
those sections that were naturally the poorest, the most productive
°f oil! here and there in the South, where it has been carried on in
an intelligent and up-to-date manner, it has built up poor soils end
brought prosperity to the men engaged in it. What it has done in
these instances, it could do—and would do under wise direction—
on thousands of farms all over the South.
The South, on the one hand, bays dairy products from Illinois
and Wisconsin and Iowa, and on the other hand, ships the cheapest
and best concentrated feed for dairy cattle in the world—cotton
seed meal—to the dairymen of New York and New England and
Europe. And the dairymen of the Northwest and those of New
England and Europe get rich and enrich their lands, while here in
our own fair Southland the increase In the production of the staple
crops per acre fails to ksep pace with the increase in the annual
fertiliser bills. In short, we are feeding other people’s cattle and
[Courtesy Wirconsin E<p- iiiient Station.
HOLSTEIN COW. JEWEL DUCHESS.
The milk this cow gave in one week contained 22.109 pounds butter fat.
baying other people’s cream and cheese and butter, to their great --
advantage and our decided loss. Would it not be well to change all this, and to keep both this money and fertility at home ?
In our Dairy Special last year it was estimated that SO Southern cities could consume the product of 200,000 cows better than
the average of those we now have. The demand for dairy products is all the time increasing faster than is the supply.
What, then, are the reasons that Southern farmers are making such little effort to supply this demand ? There are just three
reasons that really count. These are: (I) Lack of feed, (2) poor cows, and (3) lack of men trained for the work.
The first hindrance is so easily overcome that we are almost ashamed to acknowledge •that it is a hindrance. We grow the
world's supply of cottonseed meat; we can grow a greater variety of leguminous feeds, and more of them per acre, than can any
of the leading dairy States ; we can produce com silage at less cost than can any other section. With these feeds and good pas- ,
U'ou<te*y WWcoualn Experiment Station.
OUEKNSKY COWS^KISTAN'S ROYALETTE.
Tai# row produced 4'Ji».5l pound* but’er fat in one year.
hires, which we can have if we will, we can feed dairy cattle at
less cost than can any Northwestern or Northeastern farmer.
As to better cows, there is just one way to get them. That is,
to get good sires, to test the cows for dairy work, to get rid of the
poor ones and save calves only from those that pay their way.
Doing this, we can soon have as good dairy herds as are to be
found anywhere. We have a few of them now; but all too few.
The third problem is also one that can be solved. There is
no mystery in the dairy business. The man who has a liking for
the work, and who is willing to devote to it the earnest thought
and persistent effort which are the price of success in any occu
pation, can soon be a good dairyman. And the good dairyman
in the South is in practically every instance a man who is making
money and becoming a leader in the upbuilding of his community.
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
Feeding the Oow to Make
Money . 359
Fire Blight of Pears and
Apples . 363
Home Dressmaking—1. Fab
rics . 354
May-Hatched Chickens .... 302
Notes ou Farm Buttermaking 353
Oleo Advocates Lack Infor
mation . 350
Oleomargarine and the South 350
The Skim Milk Calf.360
The Value of a Pure-Bred
Ram . 358
Wanted—Dairymen .356
What it Costs to Build a Silo 352
What Tillage Is aud Does. . . 357
Which Herd Represents
Yours?. 856
Who Needs u Silo? . 353