ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 437 



As I came in this' morning, someone pointed out to me a very superior 

 looking cow and said: "What is the value of that cow?" I said no 

 man knows what the value is of a cow like that. It is impossible to esti- 

 mate the value of a superior animal such as a great many you have here, 

 and it is also impossible to estimate the value of an acre of Iowa land. 

 Whenever we develop a better system of agriculture, a better kind of 

 a dairy type, we are developing a higher grade of intelligence. The dairy 

 cow always comes in to serve the man who is farming high-priced land 

 and who is farming by what we term intensified methods because she is 

 an economical producer and because the increasing population in our 

 cities must be fed from the products of the farm. There has been an 

 enormous increase in the past dozen years in the amount of butter con- 

 sumed in America, and there has been a corresponding increase in the 

 price. The buttermakers are entitled to great credit for the progress 

 they have made in taking the raw material from the farms and manufac- 

 turing it into the finished product. 



I was very greatly pleased at the address of Mr. Hansen in regard 

 to this one side issue because a good many of the creameries pay 

 no attention to the by-products. I know a good many who have been 

 turning their butter milk into the sewers. He has shown you that in 

 five years they have produced $7,000 profit. What he has said applies 

 to perhaps nearly every creamery in the state and it applies to the farm- 

 ers' by-products on the farm. 



I believe we are coming to a new era in dairying in the United 

 States and especially in the middle west. People are taking to dairy- 

 ing as a permanent business. They are taking to it as a means of suc- 

 cessful agriculture. Such a show as this couldn't have been brought to- 

 gether anywhere in this western country 10 years ago. No one can 

 calculate what it is going to mean to the farmers and the creamery pat- 

 rons to have the improved dairy blood introduced into the communities 

 which support the creameries. A man who gets an improved animal 

 and takes it home to his farm becomes interested in it. He becomes in- 

 terested in improving the product and the output of his herd, and when- 

 ever he does that he is contributing not only to the success of the 

 creamery, but to the community as well. As we develop along this line 

 our creameries are going to develop, and their product will command 

 better prices. 



During the past few years at Ames we have had an unprecedented 

 call for men to engage in educational work There is a new system of 

 education coming about in our public schools and agriculture is coming in- 

 to the system. The demand is overwhelming for men. We have not been 

 able to supply the demand for the reason that the farm opportunities 

 appeals to the young man today who has taken a college course. It ap- 

 peals to him more strongly than ever before. You can't blame a young 

 man who has an opportunity to go into practical farm work for taking 

 to that in preference to going into a salaried position. The thing we 

 need today more than anything else for the improvement of Iowa agri- 

 culture is a greater love for the land and for the home in the country. 



