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spoken to you about. We will thereby gain in both quantity and 

 quality of production and by so doing will have demonstrated 

 that our farms are the greatest factories on earth. 



You say to me if we all had good cows there would be no 

 market for the butter. However, I am confident in our lives we 

 will never see the time when there will not be a demand for all 

 the good butter that can be produced. 



Thirty-five years ago there were being milked in the United 

 States 11,000,000 cows. Today there are 22,000,000. During 

 this thirty-five years our population has doubled and in the next 

 thirty-five years we can expect our population to double again. In 

 case it does, one of two things will be necessary if the people of 

 this country are to use dairy products to the same extent per 

 capita as they are now. It will be necessary either to milk twice 

 the number of cows or to double the average production. Milk- 

 ing twice as many cows, or 44,000,000, would add greatly to the 

 drudgery, for it will take more labor and they will consume much 

 more feed. All things considered the best solution is to milk the 

 same number of cows and by the use of better methods in caring 

 for our herds by selecting and retaining one or more profitable 

 individuals and by the use of good sires in building up these 

 herds. 



It will not be a difficult matter to induce your cows to yield 

 double their present amount of butter fat. After that has been 

 done there will still be the possibility of doubling the production 

 again. 



As Mr. Schilling has said, if you could realize the wonderful 

 possibilities on the farm today for those who will solve just this 

 kind of problems, you would be surprised at the wonderful re- 

 sults that can be accomplished. 



I believe that one-third of the 22 million cows being milked 

 in the United States are not any more than paying for their feed, 

 another third are being milked at an absolute loss, which means 

 that all of the profit that is being made from dairying is derived 

 from one-third of the cows while the remaining cows that are 



