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to raise good calves; and Missouri became a wonderful example of the 

 many profits in dairying. 



A'lissouri sunshine, Missouri water, Missouri grass, Missouri feed,, 

 are all being used to produce milk, out of which an immense amount of 

 butter and cheese is being made and the by-products go to raise calves 

 and make pork. The size of Missouri, its climate, its location, the fav- 

 orable conditions, all go to make' it the future "Promised Land" of 

 America, the central butter market of the world. 



Missouri has 750,000 to 800,000 dairy cows, and at the same time 

 has sunshine and water and grass and feed and room enough to support 

 10,000,000. 



Missouri's experiment station, which is in connection with the State 

 University at Columbia, has a dairy building second to none in the 

 United States, and the influence of the work done there is being felt to 

 a marked degree all the time. 



Some remarkable records have been made by Missouri dairymen. 

 Among these might be mentioned Mr. Coleman, of Pettis county, who 

 averaged from seven cows, in 1903, 400 pounds of butter each. He fed 

 the skim milk to hogs, and after paying for all the feed given to his 

 cows and hogs, he had a net profit of $850 from the proceeds. 



A Nodaway county man reports making $6,000 in' six years on 

 forty acres in the dairy business, and started absolutely without any 

 capital. 



Goodrich Bros., of Henry county, have a herd of thirty cows that 

 average 375 pounds of butter a year. 



Mr. Koontz, of Jasper county, has a herd of twenty-five to thirty 

 cows that has averaged for several years nearly 400 pounds of butter a 

 year. 



Hosmer & Son, of Marshfield, has a herd of seventy-five cows 

 that averaged them last year over 350 pounds of butter, one cow making 

 560 pounds. 



Mr. Schelpman, of Greene county, realized last year from his herd 

 of twenty-five cows over $125 a head. 



Besides these there are hundreds of others of the same kind., of 

 records, all of which go to show the adaptability of Missouri for suc- 

 cessful dairying, and is sufificient explanation of why so much interest 

 is being taken in the business all over the State. 



This interest is universal because the entire State is adapted to 

 dairying. There is no section where conditions are unfavorable and 

 there is no section that, to any marked degree possesses advantages over 

 the rest of the State. Missouri, as a whole, is a dairy state, and the 



