Enter the Dairy Cow — Exit Want and Poverty 



DAIRYING 



History repeats itself. Enter the dairy eow, exit want and poverty. Into 

 whatever community or state the dairy cow enters, affluence follows in her wake. 

 When the chinch bug had devastated the wheat fields of Iowa and Wisconsin and 

 the fertility of the soils had been depleted to the point where they were unprofi- 

 tably productive, the farmers of those states turned to the dairy cow as their only 

 hope and salvation, and today these two states rank first and third in the output 

 of dairy products. In communities where the dairy industry is highly developed, 

 prosperity is unexcelled. 



The same conditions prevailed in Mississippi, especially in the uplands and 

 the Brown Loam section, where the lands had been cropped for over 40 years in 

 cotton and the soil had been robbed of its fertility. With a soil depleted of fertility 

 and the advent of the boll weevil, the agricultural situation became alarming, and 

 it was evident that something must be done to rehabilitate the farm. It was about 

 1912 that "bossy" entered the warp and woof of the agricultural fabric in the 

 reconstruction of Mississippi farming. With the modest beginning of one creamery 

 in 1912, the entire output of which was 17,000 pounds of butter for that year, the 

 industry has developed to 22 creameries, with an output of 3,062,000 pounds of 

 butter in 1918, and for which the farmers were paid $1,270,339. Adding to this 

 the value of the calves and other by-products, including fertilizer, the increased 

 wealth of the State from the dairy cow will exceed $15,000,000 annually. 



The following table shows the steady growth of this industry: 



Pounds Number of 



Year Butter Creameries 



These creameries have experienced no difficulties in finding a ready market 

 for their entire output, and would welcome a greater production of raw material 

 for their use, so that dairymen need not hesitate to venture in this highly intensi- 

 fied phase of farming. These local creameries furnish a stable market, paying the 



same price for bntter-fat and milk as prevail in the dairy sections of the United 



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