DAIRY INTERESTS OF WALDO COUNTY. 1(55 



making capacity, and good feed and good care. It is not enongb 

 that a cow be a large milker, if the milk is poor in quality, (^iialit^* 

 is more than quantity every time and every where. It is the cow 

 that combines large quantity with good quality that brings in the 

 profit oi- the price. 



Sriggestice Thxnujhts. — "Waldo count}- farming has no specialty. 

 Hay and potatoes are the leading crops. Corn growing is somewhat 

 on the increase. Grain growing has declined. Considerable ha}- is 

 sold off from the farms, and less potatoes are raised than formerly. 

 More grain and roots are fed from 3ear to year to stock. In many 

 instances hay sold off is compensated or partly compensated for by 

 feed purchased or superphosphates bought. The use of shorts and 

 cotton seed meal is quite rapidly increasing. All our country stores 

 haA'e large trade in corn and feed. The subject of feeding is one of 

 live interest. 



Some changes are seen, looking over the field. A score of 3'ears 

 ago the market called for solid packed June or September butter. 

 This brought the best price. Now the market calls for butter fresh 

 from the churn. Then the butter w^as wanted carrying at least an 

 ounce of salt to the pound ; now it calls for butter just flavored 

 with salt, and in attractive print and neat package. Solid butter in 

 jar or firkin is hard to sell and brings low prices. Old butter is not 

 wanted. Demand has necessitated improvement. It pays to make 

 good butter. It doesn't pay to make poor butter. There have been 

 radical changes in the past ten years. Gxood feed, good care, good 

 cows, clean milk, neatness in handling, and in the manufacture, and 

 in the package for market ; the observance of the best rules of dairy 

 success is required. Dairying, then, in Waldo count}^, in common with 

 other counties of the State, is progressing and is taking its rank and 

 place among the fine arts of the farm. It is becoming one of the 

 exact sciences of our agriculture. Its tendency is onw^ard toward 

 better things. 



Wants. — Better markets and better market facilities. More faith 

 in cheese making. More faith in good feed and good cows. More 

 faith in the profits of dairying, and this faith carried out in works. 



A lively discussion followed the reading of this paper, participated 

 in by a large number of the farmers of the county, in which causes 

 of the decline of associated dairying in the county were carefully 

 considered. The sentiment seemed to be that the chief cause of 



