198 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the comparison is conclusive. We would never know "which side of our 

 bread is buttered" if it were not for the dairy cow. She has been the 

 mortgage lifter, the wealth producer, the constant friend of the Iowa 

 farmer for many years. Nobody will deny the truth of my statement, but 

 there are so many, especially among stockmen, who will not milk. In 

 fact stock breeders have retarded dairying" and their own business of 

 breeding and selling fine stock because they have directly and especially 

 indirectly discouraged dairying. 



You have persistently refused to milk the cows of your herd because 

 you say you want fine, fat calves for the show ring and auction block 

 and they cannot be produced without tbey run with the dam. To save 

 time let this be admitted as to show cattle and the highest blood for pri- 

 vate sale, yet it is a serious question if such handling of cows as this is 

 not breeding out or turning dormant the milking power of the animal, to 

 say nothing of the fact that fine, fat calves are raised by hand from the 

 warm separator milk supplemented by oat meal, oats, corn, bran and 

 good pasture at various stages of growth. But stockmen indirectly have 

 crippled the dairy (and their own business as well) because their exam- 

 ple is contagious. Other men who are not breeding thoroughbred cattle 

 copy the example and contend that it does not pay to rob the calf of the 

 fresh full milk of the dam, and so thousands of Iowa cows that cost from 

 $18 to $25 each to keep them are carried through the year to raise $15 

 calves. Farmers see this finally and get discouraged with the business 



Courtesy Wallaces' Farmer. 



One of the prize Short-Horns at the Iowa State 

 Fair 1902. 



and decide to give up cattle. That hurts the fine stock industry and you 

 are yourselves in part to blame. You pay little or no attention to that 

 phase of the trade. You do not breed for milk because you have blinded 

 your eyes to the necessity of a double purpose, or all purpose cow. The 

 average farmer must have that kind or none. 



The man who keeps sheep gets both of clip of wool and a lamb per 

 ewe, and a fine carcass from the weathers. The man who raises colts 



