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The. Dawn, of a New Constructive Era 



Milking a Dol- 

 lar Bring Two 

 in Return 



Dairying 

 Makes High- 

 Priced Rich 

 Lands 



Three Kinds 

 of Cows 



of butter for every dollar's worth of cottonseed meal we buy 

 from you. Your land grows that cottonseed meal ; it takes the 

 fertility from your lands; you send it to us, and we feed it to 

 our dairy cows, and sell it back to you for $2.00. That may be 

 good business for you in the South, but I don't see how it can 

 be. We are satisfied if you are. But you ought not to be satis- 

 fied, gentlemen. It means that the man who tills the land here 

 in the South should not blight the land he tills, and too many of 

 you fellows here in the South have been blighting your land until 

 it is not as good and attractive land as it was a few years ago. 

 You ask me how I know? I don't know just about this par- 

 ticular vicinity, but I do know about several other vicinities, and 

 I dare say it is true in this part of the country. 



Now the solution. In my judgment — and I know it is true 

 in every other section — you go to the richest and highest price 

 land in Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, and you will find that the 

 industry that made that high price and made the farmers that 

 handle that land so prosperous, was dairying. You go into the 

 cut-over land of Michigan and find a man who is improving the 

 fertility of those farms, to make them productive, and you will 

 find he is improving them by the industry of dairying. It is true 

 on high priced and on low priced land. Why ? Because the cow 

 will take the product of your farm and convert it into more dollars, 

 carrying a larger percentage of profit than any other animal that 

 walks on four legs. She has done it in the past and will do it in 

 the future. 



As one of the speakers said, there are certain essentials that 

 must be observed on the farm. First, you must have a good 

 cow. There are in the State of Louisiana, as well as in every 

 state, three kinds of cows. One kind of cow takes her feed and 

 digests it, and under the law of her nature she converts that into 

 beef. That is a beef cow. It doesn't make any difference whether 

 she is Hereford, or Shorthorn or Angus. If she converts that 

 into flesh she is a beef cow. Another kind takes her feed and 

 assimilates it, and because of the law of her nature she converts 

 that into milk. That is a dairy cow ; and it doesn't make any 

 difference what breed or color she is ; if by the law of her na- 

 ture she converts that into milk, she is a dairy cow. Another 

 kind of cow takes her feed, and God only knows what she does 

 with it — she neither makes meat nor milk with it. (Applause.) 



