The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 179 



Some Suggestions for Dairy- 

 ing on Cut-Over Lands 



By N. P. Hull 



President of the National Dairy Union 



As your chairman says, I have come a long way — came, 

 down from Lansing, Michigan. I have been interested in dairy- 

 ing all my life ; started in to milk cows when I was knee high to 

 a June bug and have followed it all my life. I have come South 

 to tell you about the dairy business and how it ought to be ap- 

 plied in the South. I will tell you that story in ten minutes. I 

 can talk pretty quickly, too. Perhaps you want to know why : 

 Up in Michigan we manufacture 72 per cent of all the automo- 

 biles made in the United States. We don't use them all there but 

 we test them all there. These automobiles run up and down and 

 all around, and the people there are divided into two classes — the 

 quick and the dead. (Laughter.) 



I am not going to say all I had in mind to say to you. I 

 have heard a great deal about the wonderful fertility of the soil 

 and the wonderful opportunities in the Southland. I have 

 traveled over this Southland considerably, as well as over the 

 other lands — practically all the other states. In my work con- 

 nected with the National Dairy Union, and as President of the 

 American Dairy Farmers' Association, and connected with sev- 

 eral other associations, I have lectured on dairying from one 

 ocean to the other, and for two years to the Canadian Govern- 

 ment. So I feel I have .at least had an opportunity to know 

 something about dairying. I have also had an opportunity to 

 know something about conditions in the different sections of the 

 United States. 



I might repeat again — I have heard a great deal about the 

 opportunities of the Southland. I am running a dairy in Michi- 

 gan, and a great many other people are. We are buying' carload 

 after carload of cottonseed meal grown upon the land of the 

 South. We pay $1.00 for your cottonseed meal for feeding to our 

 dairy cows, and from those dairy cows we send the butter back 

 to New Orleans and sell it, and we sell you two dollars' worth 



