FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. 569 



There is some team work, but not more than what a span of draft mares 

 can easily do and raise colts, which usually brings in about the easiesr 

 money a farmer gets. 



Taking everything into consideration, we are compelled to believe 

 that the person who has a fairly good herd of dairy cows, even if he 

 does not understand the business, but is anxious to learn, is in as good 

 or better shape to withstand a siege of hard times and defy the red flag 

 of the sheriff than those engaged in any other branch of agriculture. 



I was somewhat surprised when our secretary asked me to write a 

 paper on dairying, as I fully realized my incompetency, but have writ- 

 ten my paper with the hope that it might provoke discussion and put 

 some to thinking along this line, and also bring out the many details 

 unmentioned. and thus fortify ourselves for the inestimable profit of 

 dairying on the farm. 



THOROUGHBRED CATTLE OF IOWA. 



Carey M. Jones, before Scott County Farmers' Institute. 



So many American farmers think because their grandfathers were 

 •opposed to pure bred cattle and their fathers talked against pure bred 

 cattle that they are compelled to think that they are better off without 

 them. 



To some this is true, so far as the cow is concerned. Some men 

 would be better off without any; and the cow would be better off without 

 that kind of a farmer. But these individuals are far in the minoritj . 

 Our grandfathers got along very nicely with the cradle and the flaii. 

 they got along because their tools were as good as their neighbors, and 

 competitors. 



But when the old McCormick reaper came along, they had to put 

 aside the cradle as being too slow, just as the trusted steed was un- 

 hitched from the rattling stage coach to make much specific steam 

 cars. When grass land was free, and the principal expense was brand- 

 ing and one bell for the family cow, then to have worried over the kind 

 of steer that would have produced the greatest number of pounds oi 

 be^f on the least num-ber of pounds of grass consumed might have been 

 useless. 



But with the many advancements in machinery and science, equally 

 rapid has been the development and settlement of our country, taking 

 not Iowa, our own State, alone, for a basis, but the entire United States. 

 Figures show the population as follows: 1800, 5,308,483; in 1850, 23.- 

 191,876; and in 1903 the population was 80,372,000, or practically sixteen 

 persons to the square mile living in the United States. When ther-3 

 was but only one one hundred years ago, and possibly right here is 

 where Bryan got his 16 to 1 idea. (Loud applause.) You may say that 

 is a good while. Yes, but there are a few people alive today that wer^ 

 then, so that after all it is but a little more than the life of man. Again. 



