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Other dairy products to make the total income exceed the loo 

 milHon mark annually. This product comes from our best farms, 

 best homes, and best communities. 



Progress In Other Lines 



The man of the country — whether he is called a dairyman 

 or a farmer — has always been ready to follow new and better 

 methods when he was convinced that by doing so it would re- 

 sult in greater returns, not alone in terms of money but in great- 

 er satisfaction or enjoyment. Every year better farm methods 

 are followed in order that the decreased cost of crop production 

 may reduce the art of maintaining the dairy cow. The horses 

 on your farms are not the same as to quality that they were ten 

 years ago. The so-called dairy cow of twenty years ago would 

 be a stranger in your well-developed herds. The attitude that 

 the people of the country take towards education shows that 

 there is progress in every line of activity. 



Never before have the dairymen made such a close study 

 of their cows as at the present time, not on acocunt of the in- 

 creased cost of feed and the greater returns from the factory, 

 but because they see that it is worth while and that it ''pays." 

 Dairymen realize that every phase of their operation is becoming 

 more and more complex. They do not hesitate to call for assist- 

 ance from every possible source, in order that their problems 

 may be more easily solved. These few illustrations may not re- 

 fer directly to the subject to be considered, but they all have an 

 indirect bearing on what one must expect when dealing with the 

 problems confronting the butter industry of the future. 



The dairyman has kept well in the lead not only in dealing 

 with quantity, but he has ever been on the alert to assist in hand- 

 ling the problems that might bear a relation to quality. This 

 can best be illustrated by what has been accomplished in Wis- 

 consin this year under the licensing law. This law placed the 

 operators of butter and cheese factories as well as the makers 

 under the supervision of the Dairy and Food Commission. Cer- 

 tain rules and regulations were formulated as a guide to the men 

 in charge of co-operative as well as individually owned factories 

 as to what was expected of them by the state and the consumer. 



