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\'ery few of the old time native cattle can now be found — nearly every- 

 thing is either good grades of beef, or fair grades of dairy animals. Yet 

 we are not nearly where we should be. But no other state is having such 

 an awakening of interest in dairying, and as our dairy cattle are im- 

 proved in quality as also in numbers our state will gradually and 

 rapidly rank higher and higher until she stands at the top, where she so 

 justly will belong, and she may then well erect a monument of a mag- 

 nificient dairy bull to commemorate the prosperity and happiness his in- 

 troduction brought to her citizens. We will then gaze upon the dairy 

 bull as he proudly and impatiently walks up and down the fence of Ms 

 paddock, and we will say : "To you, Mr. Dairy Bull, do we owe this 

 great honor, our good homes, our valuable land, our profitable business. 

 You took us when we were poor and made us well-to-do. In our ad- 

 versity you came to our help and in our prosperity you cling to us.'' 



NEEDED LEGISLATION. 



(By Hon. R. M. Washburn, State Dairy Oommissiouer of Missouri.) 



You all know what happened last winter. The dairymen united; 

 they wanted something and they got it, and it is time now for the dairy- 

 men of this State to unite again and make further demands. As I go 

 over the State talking at farmers' institute meetings, and especially at 

 dairy meetings, where the farmers have been educated in daily work 

 until they know how to feed, know the value of concentrated feeds, and 

 are continually buying feeds containing protein ; where the men have 

 already been educated past the point of why they should dairy and are 

 studying the economy side of dairying; in those sections there is quite 

 a strong demand for some control by the State over the quality of the 

 feeds they buy. It is really not an uncommon thing to go into a com- 

 munity and have farmers complain that the purchased foods give them-, 

 very poor results. They do not get from that feed the results they have 

 a right to expect. They buy feed for $25 or $30 a ton and find that it 

 does not do the business that it should. They have had it analyzed. The 

 chemist in the Agricultural College told me that it was not at all uncom- 

 mon for this analysis to show bran testing as low as six per cent pro-- 

 tein instead of 15 or 16, as it should test; and that cotton seed meal, in 

 which there was mixed ground hulls and other refuse of that nature, in- 

 stead of testing 40 per cent to 42 per cent, the protein contents go down, 

 to 37 per cent or even lower. 



It is time that the dairymen of this State, through the Dairymen's. 

 Association, demanded a feed inspection. 



