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The United States is a country of far greater Dairy advan- 

 tages and opportunities than either Denmark or Holland. 



And now the question arises, how can the Dane afford to 

 import and feed our corn and sell his butter and cheese in com- 

 petition with us? 



Holland Milk Problems. 



1. One of Holland's greatest exporters of Holstein-Friesian cattle 

 had at one time 30 cows each producing on an average 11,275 pounds of 

 milk and 394 pounds of butterfat per year. If butterfat was worth 25c 

 a pound, what was the gross earnings of this herd of cows annually? 

 What would the milk have 'been worth at $1 per hundred. 



2. In the province of Freisland, Holland, there were 70 co-operative 

 butter and cheese factories each receiving on an average 25,000 pounds 

 of milk per day ; the average price paid at the factory was $1 per hundred 

 pounds of milk; find the total amount paid for milk by these 70 factories. 



3. There are 1,000,000 dairy cows in Denmark; the amount of 

 butter exported is 200,000,000 pounds per year; the Danes receive $44,- 

 000,000 for this export; what is the average price per pound received for 

 the butter exported? 



Holland contains but 8,000,000 acres, or less than one-third the 

 area of Ohio. Only one-third of Holland is said to be good land, but 

 the exports of butter and cheese amount to $108,000,000 annually. 



There are some important lessons to be learned from the two small 

 countries of Holland and Denmark. 



1. Some of the small nations have done some of the really greatest 

 things. 



2. Co-operation has been the chief underlying principle of Hol- 

 land's and Denmark's dairy success. 



3. They have incorporated into their ethics the principle that man 

 should not live for self alone, but for 'his fellowmen, his community and 

 for his nation as a whole. 



4. The Danes and Hollanders owe their rapid rise and marvelous 

 success to the fact that they are alive to the demands of the markets of 

 the world. They understand their art. They have the brains, thought 

 and skill. They understand breeding, feeding and caring for stock. 



PROBLEMS. 



1. There are 22,000,000 cows in the United States. The average pro- 

 duction of butterfat per cow per year is 160 pounds. What would be 

 the value of the total production of butterfat per year in the U. S. at 

 25c a pound. 



2. If the average production of butterfat per cow were 320 pounds 

 annually, how many .cows would we be feeding now to produce the same 

 amount we now get from the total number of cows in the U. S.r 



