DAIRY SUGGESTIONS FROM EUROPEAN CONDITIONS AS SEEN 

 IN THE BRITISH ISLES, HOLLAND AND DENMARK.* 



(By Wilber J. Fraser, Chief in Dairy Husbandry, and Royden E. Brand, Assistant in 



Dairy Husbandry, University of Illinois. Reprinted from Bulletin No. 140, 



University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station.) 



A study of the dairj^ conditions of Illinois shows conclusively that 

 the dairymen are not getting the profits they should from the money 

 and labor invested in the business of producing milk. Since there are 

 dairy sections in Europe where they are feeding American grown grain 

 to their cows and producing dairy products which are sold on European 

 markets in competition with ours, it is important for the American dairy- 

 men to know what is wrong with our methods, and the details of the 

 system that permits profitable dairying on land worth from five to ten 

 times as much as that in the Central West. 



This bulletin is the result of a summer spent in making a detailed 

 study of the methods employed in the production of milk on the farms 

 of the intensive dairy countries of Great Britain, Holland and Den- 

 mark. The main purpose in the study was to look for points in which 

 European dairymen excel. This was a second visit for the Chief in 

 Dairy Husbandry, who eight years before noted the important features 

 at that time, and the observations of the first visit, coupled with the 

 more mature and deliberate opinions of the second, are herewith com- 

 piled. While many of the foreign conditions are, of course, vastly 

 different from ours, and we cannot copy all of their methods directly, 

 the underlying principles of dairying are the same the world over, and 

 the high points of their success are uniformly good cows, economical 

 feeding and care, and sanitary methods, resulting in dairy products of 

 high quality. The observance or nonobservance of these points make 

 the difference between success and failure, and are of vital importance 

 to all American dairymen. 



*The cuts for this bulletin were made from photos taken by the authors. 



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