THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY 



/^NE -woiild need to have a more fertile imagination tlian I 

 have, to be able to put much poetry into a description of 

 the dairy industry. It is, however, not only one of the greatest 

 industries in Canada from a material point of view, but it is 

 one of the great industries of the world. The dairy industry 

 supplies all civilized people with at least two of their most 

 indispensable articles of food. There may not be many people 

 induced to engage in lihe business of dairying from a pure 

 love of it, but it cannot be denied that it does offer attractions 

 to those who are obliged to consider the money-getting possi- 

 bilities of whatever line of effort their energies are employed 

 in. 



There are not many persons in this audience, or in the 

 whole Dominion for that matter, who do not derive, either 

 directly or indirectly, some benefit from this great industry 

 which has contributed so largely to the prosperity of Canadian 

 agriculture. This assertion will be the more readily believed 

 when I state that the total value of the products of Canadian 

 dairies, including milk, butter, cheese and condensed milk, 

 amounts to something like $100,000,000 annually. 



A very important point in this connection is the fact that 

 while we recover, with the aid of the gentle cow, this large 

 amount of wealth from mother earth, by the transmutation 

 of pasturage and fodder crops into milk, the soil is not im- 

 poverished in the process, but on the contrary, is left in better 

 condition every year to produce another $100,000,000. If 



