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not only to get results, but to get results at a profit The whole 

 thing hinges on the organic matter in the soil. In our clay soils, 

 and in our Volutia soils, there are wonderful amounts of inert mat- 

 ter that the soil cannot make use of. Right here comes in the ad- 

 vantage of growing more plant food, and getting Nature to use the 

 supply on hand — putting the soil to work on it. Terry, in Ohio, ad- 

 vocated this, but he was twenty years ahead of his time. He never 

 saw the results. Why? Because the soil could not make use of it. 

 At the Ohio Experiment Station they find the same thing, and at 

 Urbana we find the same thing. 1 don't know whether you like that 

 or not; but it is a fact that until we used lime, we could not get 

 the soil to use the organic matter that was in it. I might say that 

 since we used lime, we have had the results. If you don't believe it, 

 my books are open for inspection. 



The problem of the farmer is to get the organic matter. One 

 method is to seed with rj^e. I cannot go into details but simply 

 throw out these few remarks as pointers along the line. The hour 

 for adjournment is at hand, so I will stop right here. I thank you. 



PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF DAIRY PRODUCTS 



By L. W. LIGHTY 



Why dairy? It is an easy way to keep the soil fertile. It is the 

 logical way to market many of the farm products that would other- 

 wise be unprofitable. It is a delightful way to make money on the 

 farm. Dairy products are the best and cheapest food for humanity. 

 Milk is tlie only natural complete food except eggs. It is an article 

 of food that will be used more and more as humanity becomes edu- 

 cated along diatetic lines. The babies must have milk. The in- 

 valids must have milk, and the rest of the folks will have milk 

 while the girls demand more and more ice cream. Butter is the most 

 easily digested of any wholesome food in our dietary. Cheese is 

 the poor man's meat and he is rich as compared with the fellow who 

 consumes a 75c tenderloin with the "tender" departed 12 years ago 

 or lamb chop with many interrogation points after lamb also six 

 years added to its life. 



Ice cream is a good part of Cupid's ammunition and goes fine with 

 the bunny hug and tango, indeed it always goes. The statistical 

 authority says two gallons of ice cream for every man, woman and 

 child in this country annually, but observation indicates that the 

 girls get most of it. Seriously, no people ever flourished and grew 

 powerful without the dairy cow as part of their national equipment. 

 As patriotic citizens of this the greatest nation on earth, it be- 

 hooves us to seriously study and industriously develop the dairy in 

 dustry. 



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