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The Danes have incorporated in their people the important knowl- 

 edge that money is not the only thing in life, and that each man owes 

 a duty to his fellows — that the interests of the community — yes, the 

 nation — may prosper. This has yet to be instilled in the hearts of many 

 Americans. 



The Danes do not have as good a climate or soil as is enjoyed in 

 the Central West. They have small patches of different crops, and 

 cannot take advantage of four-horse teams' large implements and ma- 

 chinery'', as can the Americans. They cut much grain by hand, and 

 many of their methods are laborious. 



The important question then is : How can the Dane afford to im- 

 port and feed our corn and sell his butter in competition with us? He 

 does this by being a close student of all the principles of dairying. He 

 understands that dairying is an occupation requiring brains, thought 

 and skill ; that he must have efficient cows, economically fed and well 

 cared for. 



"When such a state of dairy intelligence as is found in Denmark 

 exists among even the American farmers who pretend to be dairymen, 

 there wall be less wasting of years of weary unprofitable toil." — Hoard. 



FINAL CONCLUSIONS. 



It is the history of the world that it is not the largest nations 

 that have done the really great things. In the dairy world it has re- 

 mained for the little countries of Denmark and Holland to achieve the 

 most enconomical production of high grade dair^^ products. 



The production of clean milk is what every American dairyman 

 must come to before we can hope to attain for our dairy products the 

 high standard of execellence so conspicuous in the dairy products of 

 Scotland, Holland and Denmark. 



In general, European dairymen have learned most thoroughly that 

 to make money in dairying the first essential is to eliminate every 

 "star boarder" that pulls down the profits, and have a good herd — a 

 herd in which every individual cow is an economical producer of a high 

 order. They have also learned that these good cows must be well and 

 economical!}^ fed and cared for. 



The American dairymen should wake up to a full realization of 

 his natural advantages in the cheap feed and good markets, and go at 

 dairying in earnest, realizing that it requires brains, study and common 

 sense to succeed. He should fit up convenient, substantial and perma- 

 nent buildings and not shift from one phase of agriculture to another, 

 but stay at dairying for a lifetime. 



