INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



Thus Denmark, whose people occupy small 

 farms close together, has in its dairy busi- 

 ness a bonanza. That little country sells 

 over $40,000,000 worth of butter yearly, 

 maintaining, to keep quality and methods 

 perfect, no less than 16 dairy schools. Could 

 we make such butter as the Danes, the 

 United States would soon possess the Eng- 

 lish market, worth $40,000,000 or $50,000,- 

 ooo a year. 



Another fortune would be ours were the 

 annual product of the American cow ad- 

 vanced a pound. This and more will occur. 

 Good care and management would increase 

 the average cow yield 25 per cent. A cow 

 owned by the University of Nebraska pro- 

 duced in a year 17,000 pounds of milk and 

 650 of butter, six times the Nebraska state 

 average, and one of the best records known.* 

 A daughter of this cow has equaled her 

 dam both in milk and butter. Here is pre- 

 potency, promising, with due care in breed- 

 ing, a progeny, a strain, a family producing 

 unprecedentedly. 



* It has been surpassed considerably by a Guernsey cow. 

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