THIRTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 523 



$150,000,000 worth of pork per annum, and, of the two methods of feeding, 

 one saves half the expense. Have I not shown you that the hog can make 

 even better use of pasturethan other animals, also that it is much better 

 to use with corn than is skim milk? Then I ask, why should we ask 

 the cow to first convert the pasture into skim milk and then ask the 

 hog to use it second hand? The shoat from forty pounds to 175 pounds 

 can make most profitable use of this method, and there are multiplied 

 thousands in this state that, after this method, have, since May 1, made 

 their gains even with the high cost of corn at IY2 to 2 cents per pound. 



I, therefore, ask you in your own interest, in the interest of Greater 

 Iowa, and in the interest of the hungry consumer of the country, to get 

 into the method that means so much to you and to us all. 



Some may wonder why I have not said more about Iowa made cheese. 

 It is this, if the farmers can have more correct and honest teaching, 

 cheese making, all other forms of dairying, and pork production will 

 progress as never before. Get your eye on Wisconsin in their production 

 of $90,000,000 worth of dairy products last year. Of this, $24,000,000 was 

 cheese, many millions of which found market in this state. 



I am a lover of harmony and dislike to differ with others, but I am 

 for "Greater Iowa" and no one would be more pleased than I to have 

 those who teach differently take the broader view and really work for 

 the farmer and "Greater Iowa." 



In conclusion, my dear brother dairy farmer, while there are all these 

 different forms of dairying, condensed, cheese, whole milk creameries, city 

 consumption, and farm separating, does it strike you as especially 

 strange that (inasmuch as the latter method is the only way out of which 

 the active ones can get your money) they use all their influence to get 

 you to pursue that method, and, because they have found it the most 

 profitable for them to teach, is that any guarantee that you will find it the 

 most profitable for you to follow? Was it their aim to teach you the 

 best method of butter production, or, on the other hand, was the object 

 to influence you to buy and use the farm separator? 



Then, in hog feeding you will notice this same interest; as far as pos- 

 sible to influence the farmer to place a high value on the warm sweet 

 skim milk, which is also done in the interest of the farm separator. So 

 you see, under the pretense of promoting dairying, they use their influence 

 to sell the separator and under the guise of teaching hog feeding they 

 really are teaching warm sweet skim milk feeding also in the interest of 

 the farm separator. 



So, are you surprised that when one makes a study of this matter 

 from the farmer's standpoint, and wholly in the interest of the farmer, 

 there should be found to exist a system which, if pushed with anything 

 like the vigor with which the system referred to has been pushed, could 

 easily add, with no additional labor, forty to sixty million dollars an- 

 nually to the net profits of the farmers of the state? 



