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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



almost any kind of a cow and make money. I have taken considerable 

 pains to investigate the price of lands in other countries to ascertain what 

 they are doing on those high priced lands. I find in Holland that land 

 is worth from $500 to $1,200 an acre; in the Island of Jersey and Guernsey 

 land is worth from $600 to $1,750 an acre. Now it occurred to me that 

 the men in those places must be doing some extra work in order to make 

 land as valuable as that, so I went a little farther and tried to find out 

 what those men were doing to make land so valuable that they could 

 command from $600 to $1,750 an acre, and I found in all cases that 

 dairying is the principal occupation of those people. Here in Iowa we 

 have land worth from $50 to $150 an acre, and yet those people in Hol- 

 land and the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey are competing with the mar- 

 kets of the world, are buying Iowa grain, paying the freight from here to 



Ayrshire cow "Croftjane Dinah 19th", owned by W. P. Schank, Cruon, N. Y. 



Holland, Guernsey and Jersey and shipping their butter into the London 

 markets in competition with our American butter. How are they doing 

 it? Are they doing it with those dual purpose cows that the agricultural 

 press of Iowa and the agricultural college of Iowa have been advocating 

 so long? Not a bit of it; they would not think of such a thing. They 

 have dairy breeds there that were established before the time of Julius 

 Ceasar and they have been going along in that same line ever since, and 

 here in this country we have been trying to milk cows from a breed or 

 breeds that for one hundred or more years have been made for the beef 

 block. How are we to expect to make money milking cows out of such 

 animals as that? 



I yield in admiration to no man for those grand beef animals I have 

 seen down at the International Stock Shows at Chicago, animals that are 



