No. 4.] DAIRYING. G9 



will fix tlie price, and will bold the dairy businef5f? wliere it 

 interferes with the profits of the man who understands and 

 has the finest organization possible for the production of milk. 



Perhaps this does not i)icture the dairy business as radiantly 

 as /ou would like to ha\-e it pictured. As Dean Davenport 

 said 3'esterday, the business of the Illinois Dairymen's Asso- 

 ciation has been to get men into the dairy business. That is 

 all right if you want manure, but it is all wrong if you want 

 milk. The result has been that we have cheap cows and 

 cheaper men all over the country producing milk for butter 

 and cheese and for the market ; because, when you put a pound 

 of cotton-seed meal through a $30 cow, the manure is worth 

 just as much as when it is dropped by a cow worth $300. The 

 result has been that the whole milk business, from Maine to 

 the Pacific coast and from north to south, has been a cheap, 

 perverted business. There has been too much manure at- 

 tached to the milk business all the way through, from the 

 economics to the milk pail. In New York men have rebelled 

 almost to the point of the shotgun against taking the manure 

 off the flanks of their cows ; and I presume there are just such 

 men in Massachusetts. 



The next thing is a panacea for this trouble. It is a slow 

 process to work anything out. First, in my opinion, is the 

 study of the individuality of the cow. A good deal of time 

 has been spent in an efi^ort to control the price of milk shipped 

 into the cities. Most of that time has been wasted. If it 

 has shown any sort of fruition anywhere, it is in the business 

 of shipping milk to Boston. In New York it was an absolute 

 failure. It built milk stations and sent trains into every 

 nook and corner of the State to get milk for New York City. 

 I have taken this ground for a dozen years in my State, and 

 have been mangled and pummeled and punished for it. The 

 organization that tried to control the price of milk shipped 

 into New York is gone, — dead and buried. Peace to 

 its ashes! It was organized on the wrong basis; most of 

 the men who composed it had never been able to organize their 

 own business. The man who cannot manage the business 

 within his grasp will never be able to handle a business 300 

 miles away, with sharp, shrewd, keen men to deal with on 



