INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



Profits are increased by feeding pastured 

 pigs mixed grain rather than corn alone. 

 The breaking strength of swine bones is in- 

 creased 1 6 to 22 per cent where tankage or 

 ground bone is fed with corn. Alfalfa, too, 

 is a great bone strengthened One great 

 item of the nation's wealth is $665,000,000 

 worth of dairy products. No farm crop 

 brings this sum except corn. The meat in- 

 dustry does not. The dairy product cited 

 combined with the value of dairy cows, 

 $482,000,000, reaches a total of $1,147,000,- 

 ooo, or more than all the meat cattle of the 

 land are worth together with hogs and 

 sheep.* 



New England counties, nearly abandoned 

 for their poor soil, have reached high pros- 

 perity through dairy farming. Nebraska, 

 too, finds dairying a veritable gold mine, 

 where the silo, the milking machine, the 

 centrifugal separator, and the butter ac- 

 cumulator form, so to speak, a triumphant 

 cyanide and smelting process. The silo has 

 on the university farm reduced the pro- 



* Figures in this paragraph as of 1906. 

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