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It will be necessary, therefore, for the beef men, on the high- 

 priced land of Missouri, Illinois and Iowa, to either produce this 

 class of beef and feed it out as baby beef, or leave the raising of 

 the cattle to the owner of cheap grazing lands in the west. This 

 will mean, then, that they must become cattle feeders rather than 

 cattle raisers and feeders if they wish to continue in the beef busi- 

 ness. Or, if this be not satisfactory, to choose between the suicidal 

 policy of selling the grain or engaging in the dairy business. 



THE COMING OF THE MILKING MACHINE MARKS AN EPOCH. 



In the past the chief trouble in the dairy business was the 

 difficulty in securing labor of the proper sort the year round, 365 

 days in the year, to do the milking. If the milking machines are 

 the success that they seem to be, so that the work may be done by 

 machinery, and this labor problem thereby eliminated, the Mis- 

 sou rian is going into dairying. 



WHAT WE MAKE OUT OF OUR COWS, AND HOW WE DO IT. 



(S. H. Redmon, Tipton, Mo.) 



Gentlemen of the Missouri Dairy Association: You will no 

 doubt realize my embarassment coming before this learned body, 

 with its Gurlers and Erfs, its Lillys and Whites, its Eckles and 

 Washburns, and many other of state and national reputation, to 

 discuss with you the above subject. And yet believing, as I do, 

 that grand old Missouri, with its natural and varied industries and 

 resources, can be made one of the best dairy states in the Union, I 

 feel that as one of her sons I would be untrue to the State of my 

 birth did I not try to comply with the request of our Secretary to 

 say a word in its behalf. 



Redhurst Dairy — We, at Redhurst dairy farm, have, during 

 the past year, the twelve months ending December 31, 1906, milked 

 on an average of fifty cows, ten of which were cows with first calves, 

 and sold butter fat to the amount of $3,231.95, or an average of 

 $269.33 per month, besides three gallons whole milk per day for 

 home consumption, and the whole milk fed to calves until they are 

 six weeks old. 



We raise all calves except grade Jersey bulls, which are vealed. 



As to how this is done : We have a barn with double wall, the 

 outside wall being lined with building paper inside and thoroughly 



