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for good dairy cows for many years will be greatly in excess 

 of our supply. The dairy industry is rapidly increasing in the 

 west and in the far west. The dairy business is almost entirely 

 undeveloped in the south. Buyers of cattle from South Amer- 

 ica, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other countries, at- 

 tracted by the high records of our best dairy cows, are coming 

 to this country to buy dairy cows. 



Many of our large cities have already extended their terri- 

 tory from which it is possible to draw milk as far as distances 

 and conditions will permit and the time cannot be very far 

 away when there will be no new territory to explore. The pro- 

 duction of milk for market will then be a settled rather than an 

 everchanging industry. 



The food value of milk will be better known and appreciated. 

 New uses for milk will be found and developed. The price of 

 milk will then have a chance to adjust itself and become more 

 nearly equal to the cost of production. 



For the young man who loves animals, who will study the 

 principles of breeding and feeding, who takes pleasure in seeing 

 the young calf grow and who measures the possibility of the 

 calf in terms of milk and butter-fat of its ancestry, there is 

 .great possibility, both for pleasure and profit, in dairy farming. 



