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tion work and the agricultural colleges. It can be done 

 quickest and surest through — 



1 — Cheaper feed. 



2 — Less man labor per cow. 



3 — Greater per cow production. 



Cheaper feed demands are being answered by the silo, 

 the growing of more protein roughages, like alfalfa, soy 

 beans, sweet clover, etc., and by home grinding and mixing 

 of feeds. 



The first fundamental in American farming is replac- 

 ing man labor by machine labor. The rise of the American 

 farmer from the peonage of past ages, such as prevailed 

 through the centuries until but a few decades ago, is due 

 primarily to the introduction of machine methods to farm- 

 ing. Dairying was the greatest of all farming drudgeries 

 but a few years ago before modern sanitary labor-saving 

 equipment was introduced. Feed and litter carriers instead 

 of the wheelbarrow; gas engines and individual drinking 

 cups instead of pumping water by hand; cream separators 

 instead of crock setting and unsanitary finger skimming; 

 milking machines instead of hand milking; gas engines and 

 tractor running the feed grinders, the ensilage cutters, the 

 milking machines and cream separators, the water pumps, 

 and the regular farm field work. All these are direct man 

 labor-savers that cut the cost of milk production hundreds 

 of millions of dollars annually. They guarantee dairy prof- 

 its to the farmer and his family without a form of slavery 

 that drives the young folks from the farm. 



The increasing of the per-cow production, so that 

 twelve cows will make more money than 40 now do for 

 many farmers, is most quickly arrived at through the great 

 movement called ''Cow Testing Associations," backed by 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the State Colleges of 

 Agriculture, and the local Farm Bureaus. Not only does 

 this system immediately find the cows not paying for their 

 keep, so that they may be sent to the butcher, but the testers 

 teach better feeding, so that cows not getting a square deal 

 are given an opportunity to show what they can produce 

 before being sold oflf as ''boarders." Any farmer not in a 



