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Experiment Station and National Department of Agriculture to insist on 

 the development of the dairy knowledge, and so develop the dairy side 

 of our State so as to make it a profitable and also an attractive occupa- 

 tion. If the people up in Denmark in that little region can take up the 

 dairy business under the adverse coDditions which they did, and can make 

 it such a successful business so that little Denmark can control the stand- 

 ards of the markets of Europe— can set the standards for other nations 

 to follow — I say our own State of Indiana, by intelligent cooperation of 

 our farmers and our daiiymen can so promote our dairy interests in this 

 State that it will result in largely increasing the wealth of our people. 



There are very few people that take advice from other people, and 

 there is no danger of any one line of business being overdone, unless it is 

 so easy that people naturally take it up; but I do say that if this State 

 Daily Association can advance ideas that will force the importance of 

 dairying more on the people; if we can rejuvenate some of our creameries; 

 if we can get our patrons to support creameries more liberally and in 

 other waj's study the interests of our business intelligently, 1 am sure 

 that while we may not all realize that it is a message from Denmark, 

 nevertheless, it will be a message from what may be considered the most 

 pi'ogressive dairy nation in the world. And so I think it is a thing that 

 it will pay our Indiana dairymen well to ponder over. 



Mr. Drischel: I would like to ask what grade of dairy cows they have 

 in Denmark? 



President: The type of dairy cow they have in Denmark, that is, the 

 most popular and most common, is a red cow, a trifle smaller than a Short- 

 horn, and of quite a dairy type, not beefy in character. I should say a 

 type that would not weigh, on an average, more than 1,000 pounds. 



You might take an old-fashion Shorthorn cow as an example. 1 

 would like to tell you of a very interesting sight. I visited a dairy 

 school on one of the Danish islands, and we went through some of 

 the buildings and out through the cow stable and into the barnyard, and 

 into a lane and lot. As we went into the lane there was coming up 

 from the field a bunch of sixteen cows and a bull. These sixteen cows 

 were all fastened together by rope halters, and a man was riding astride 

 of the bull and leading. He had a halter in his liand, and this was con- 

 nected with the cow right behind him— just behind the bull— and then there 

 were four cows abreast, and the haltei-s were linked together, so that 

 these four cows all came along together, and then the halter of the next 

 cow behind was connected with the cows in front, and these four were 

 fastened together, and so there were four sets of fours all fastened to- 

 gether. They all came up the lane, with the man straddle of the bull, to 

 the barn, and all waited while he got off, and each set of fours were sepa- 

 rated by themselves, and were tied up outside the barn. This will give 

 you an illustration of how gentle they were and how easy they were 



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