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the milk to a large city nearly a hundred miles away and the mer- 

 chants had all their ice cream and much of the butter sold shipped 

 from the same city. I have a letter from a well-known man who 

 had to buy 15,000 worih of milk last year right here in Monroe 

 county, I'ennsylvania, and every dollar of that money was sent up 

 to New York for milk. I wonder how many Monroe county farmers 

 are sending milk to New York? 



Organization, must be the watchword of the dairymen in the 

 future. Organization, intelligently applied will solve nine-tenths of 

 the dairymen's troubles. It will eliminate the unprofitable cow. It 

 will bring good pure bred sires into every community. It will im- 

 prove the quality of the product. It will search out the unsupplied 

 market and reach the consumer through the shortest possible route. 

 It will regulate conditions so the market will always be supplied but 

 never over-supplied. It will educate the consuming public to the 

 facts that milk and milk products are among the best foods in our 

 dietary; also very much cheaper and more economical than any 

 other comparable food. The cow testing association is the unit or- 

 ganization, it is absolutely essential first, last and all the time to 

 successfully produce and profitably sell dairy products. 



HOW MUCH MILK PER ACRE AND WHAT GRAINS FOR THE 



DAIRY COW 



By PROF. H. P. DAVIS, State College, Pa. 



1 was very much interested in the card that has just been got- 

 ten up by the East Stroudsburg bank. It simply shows the intere.st 

 that is being taken along the line of helping the farmers by the busi- 

 nessmen of the community. 



There are various systems by which we can keep up the fertility 

 of our soils; but I believe that the easiest one is by keeping livestock 

 and returning the manure to the land. I take it that the farmer is 

 in business for profit as well as pleasure, and I don't think we want 

 to take all the profit out of the farm this year, or in five years, and 

 then let it go. That is a short-sighted policy, and one that is going 

 to break this country up, quicker than anything else, unless we do 

 something to check it. Nov/ so far as livestick is concerned, I have 

 no argument at all with the man who wants to keep beef cattle. 

 They have their place, but I want to take up the question of the 

 dairy cow particularly. 



Now, the dairy cow has claims on all of us, and I think that she 

 can be made a profitable investment both for her milk, and for what 

 she returns to the soil. Look at Denmark and Holland, and some 

 of the other countries of Europe where dairying has been carried 

 on for decades, even centuries and see the fertility of their soil, and 

 the general prosperity of the country. We have heard a great deal 



