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growth as well as in the mere learning how better to feed, or churn, or 

 market one's produce. 



There are certain classics which are almost indispensable to the 

 library of the progressive dairyman, at least I have found tTiem to be 

 indispensable in my own experience. Henry's "Feeds & Feeding," Woll's 

 book on "Silage," Peer's "Soiling," Coburn's "Alfalfa," Monrad's "A. 

 B. C. in Cheese Making," and "Pasteurization," and Curler's "American 

 Dairying," are a few of these. There are others equally as good and 

 some also, I regret to say, which belong to the realm of trash. 



It is impossible to speak of official reports and bulletins without re- 

 ferring to the great good being accomplished by the national and state 

 departments of agriculture. I wonder if the dairymen of this state and 

 the members of this association fully realize what a mine of wealth lies 

 at their very doors, or at least can be brought to them merely by request 

 in the published bulletins of the Dairy Division, Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry of the National Department of Agriculture. 



Just a year ago at Palmyra, we had the pleasure of listening to an 

 informal talk, by R. A. Pearson, late Assistant Chief of Dairy Division 

 at Washington, on dairy conditions in our new possessions, Porto Rico, 

 and adjacent islands. Since then Mr. Pearson has embodied in a vol- 

 ume of a hundred pages, a complete report of his investigations, accom- 

 pfanied by numerous photographic illustrations of dairy types, which 

 are chiefly valuable as horrible examples of how not to do it. Of a more 

 practical nature are numerous pamphlets by Mr. Pearson and Major 

 Alvord, the chief of the dairy division and others, on "Market Milk," 

 "Care of Milk on the Farm," "Facts About Milk," "The Dairy Herd," 

 "]Milk as Food," "The Conformation of Beef and Dairy Cattle," "House- 

 hold Test for Detection of Oleomargarine and Renovated Butter," 

 "Breeds of Dairy Cattle," and others. The State Bulletins, issued by 

 the various experiment stations are just as useful, and a list of these 

 would be as long as the moral law. 



Prof. Eckles sent out one last spring on "Raising Calves w^ith 

 Skim Milk," which every dairy farmer ought to read, and the Pennsyl- 

 vania station has recently published a bulletin telling how to raise calves 

 on no milk at all. If some one doesn't tell some of these days how to 

 raise calves without feed, it will be only because the latest data was fur- 

 nished by that too thrifty farmer who managed to keep his cow on a 

 straw a day but before he could quite prove his theory, the cow died. 



One of F. D. Coburn's comprehensive quarterly reports took up the 

 general subject of "Dairying in Kansas," most of which could be read 

 with, profit by ^Missourians. 



