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good opportunities for fair remuneration in all lines, dairying is 

 neglected, because men can make more money comfortably in 

 some other way. 



DAIRYING ADAPTED TO GOOD LAND. 



It is a popular notion that land too poor or too rough to yield 

 prolitable returns in other lines of agriculture is well adapted to 

 dairying. While it is true that dairying will thrive on land on 

 which most other forms of agriculture will fail, for the very rea- 

 sons already pointed out, it is a fundamental mistake, however, 

 to assume that because of this fact dairying is adapted only to 

 regions of that sort. The truth is, dairying is just as well adapted 

 to the best land of the country as it is to the poorest, and the dairy- 

 man ought to insist upon taking possession of the best of this land, 

 where are already developed the best schools and churches, where 

 he has the best roads, the best markets, and all the modern con- 

 veniences. 



The beef men cling tenaciously to these best regions, and will 

 not surrender their business or their places easily. They are not 

 built along that line. When they have not the dairyman to fight, 

 they fight among themselves. But one thing is certain; that the 

 average beef man must mend his ways or yield to the inevitable. 



THE BEEF MAN MUST IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF HIS STOCK. 



We are interested in extending as much as possible the con- 

 sumption of animal products, particularly of beef, because the race 

 that will dominate the world with its ideas, its form of government, 

 its religions, its point of view, its language, its culture and its 

 general point of view will be the race of people that eats meat. 

 The role of beefsteak in the world's civilization has been of tre- 

 mendous importance. 



Last winter one of the graduate students in animal husbandry 

 in the University collected statistics from a large number of cattle 

 men in the corn belt, principally in Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. 

 It was shown by the returns from these men that the average calf 

 was worth at weaning time $15.00. For the production and nour- 

 ishment of this calf a cow was kept the entire twelve months. It 

 has already been shown that the gross return from good dairy 

 cows, without counting anything for the calf, varied from $75.00 

 to $120.00. It is perfectly feasible, without materially increasing 

 the expense, to produce calves that are worth at weaning time for 

 beef purposes from $25.00 to $35.00 per head. 



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