DAIRY MEETING. lOQ 



REASONS FOR SUCCESS AND FAILURE. 



According to Mr. Lyon's statement a profit was made from 

 the creamery sales on 40 farms in the New Hampshire census; 

 on 60 a loss ensued. What is the relationship of modern 

 methods to these outcomes? 



There were 11 silos on the 40 farms where profit ensued; 

 there were 7 silos on the 60 farms where no profit ensued ; rich 

 concentrates were used on 23 of the 40 farms where profit 

 ensued; rich concentrates were used on 12 of the 60 farms 

 where no profit ensued ; 27 of the profit makers took agricul- 

 tural papers and 16 of them read special dairy papers; 16 of 

 the 60 farmers whose herds were kept at a loss took agricultural 

 papers and only one of them took a special dairy paper; 6 of 

 the 40 herds where profit ensued were made up of native cattle ; 

 24 of the 60 herds where no profit ensued were made up of 

 native cattle; 33 of the 40 herds where profit ensued were 

 grades of dairy breeds ; 30 of the 60 herds where no profit 

 ensued were grades of dairy breeds. Let us reduce these data 

 to a common and comparable basis. 



On farms where profit was made with the dairy as compared 

 with those where loss ensued : 



Silos were more than three times as frequent; concentrates 

 rich in protein were used nearly thrice as often ; agricultural 

 papers were more than twice as common ; dairy papers were 

 taken on two-fifths of the farms in one case and on but one 

 farm of the other sort ; improved blood was nearly twice as 

 common in the one case as in the other. 



It is interesting to note Mr. Lyon's running commentaries 

 touching the several herds. A typical one on a Vermont farm 

 where "progress" was not the watchword reads "No silo, no 

 dairy papers, no attention to farm management and no profit. 

 The farm is for sale." A typical one where the outcome was 

 satisfactory reads, — "The cost of keeping is reduced by the 

 silage, stable is hardly modem but fairly well lighted and reason- 

 ably clean. There is a manure cellar. Good care is given the 

 cows and they respond quite well. Some of the best farm 

 papers are taken and read." 



Note these two dairies set in the "deadly parallel columns." 



