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Some men aie making remarkable strides, while others are mak- 

 ing miserable failures by wasteful, shiftless and thoughtless 

 methods. The Continental Creamery at Topeka, Kan., gathers in 

 cream from over three states and makes a high grade of butter, 

 which is none to good, for the United States Navy, With the open- 

 ing of the Panama Canal, will probably come the opening of a de- 

 Uiand from 50(),()00,()00 of people across the Pacific for dairy pro- 

 ducts, butter, cheese, condensed milk. With electric interurban 

 lines, is coming an awakening of our own people to the real value 

 of dairy products in the form of sanitary milk and cream, ice-cream, 

 butter and cheese. The thoughtful dairyman will receive his re- 

 ward. 



My field of labor is Ohio. The State has produced many illus- 

 trious men of which the people are justly proud, but it needs many 

 more good dairymen. I dislike to recite the faults of our people 

 away from home, but we are neighbors to Pennsylvania and prob- 

 ably got some of our faults from over the line and the condition 

 with which I am more familiar is probably very like that in Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Ohio has 868,000 milch cows; 100,000 men are engaged in the 

 dairy business; 77,000,000 pounds of butter is made annually in the 

 State. Only 8,000,000 pounds of this is made in creameries under 

 the best methods; 79,000,000 pounds is, therefore, made on farms, 

 some of this is made from centrifugal separator cream and is very 

 good. Probably 60,000,000 pounds is of very inferior quality and the 

 money loss on quality is probably as much as 10 cents per pound, 

 but to not overstate the bad situation, we will call it* 5 cents. This 

 means |3,000,000. Then my observations indicate that one-third of 

 the butter fat in the milk is lost in the skim milk. That means 

 20,000,000 pounds of butter that might have been recovered, and at 

 20 cents per pound it would amount to |4,000,000. Improper care, 

 and feed of cows, waste of manure by fermentation and leaching 

 would swell the loss — or price of ignorance — to $10,000,000 a year. 

 This is |100 per man engaged in the business. 



Every young man may not have the ability of a Hoard or Bab- 

 cock, but there is ability in all. There is a demand for trained 

 dairymen. I have three times as many calls each year for men as I 

 can fill. The demand is for men who are honest, reliable, can be 

 depended upon. Such are at a premium. 



There is often a tendency for young men to take a short-cut to 

 efiQciency, but I want to say that efficiency is not gained by short-cuts. 

 Men take short dairy courses in the Agricultural College because 

 they think it an easy way to get a remunerative job. It is one thing 

 to get a job and another to hold it. The thoroughly trained reliable 

 man will not only hold his job but has good chances tor a better 

 one. The farmer's boy who produces good milk shall have his re- 

 ward. 



I think it was Horace Greeley who said that every man who could 

 makes two blades of grass grow, where formerly there was but one, 

 was a benefactor to the human race. 



The man who can make a cow give two pounds of butter where 

 formerly she gave but one is also a benefactor to the human race, 

 for butter, nice, fragrant, golden butter has value (and, therefore, bad 



