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at 25 times the price per pound? The Dane is the best farmer in 

 the world and the secret of his success is intensive dairy farming. 

 Thirty years ago, Denmark could not hold her own in competi- 

 tion with other grain growing countries, and soon saw that 

 dairying was her only salvation. Denmark changed from the 

 lowest to the highest agricultural country when she changed 

 from excessive grain farming to dairying. Now, within only a 

 few years she is considered the most prosperous agricultural 

 country in the world and is exporting butter to England, South 

 America, and even to the Philippines. Her receipts from butter 

 have increased seventeen-fold in the last thirty years. If this is 

 the prosperity we cherish for the future agriculture of America, 

 then live stock farming, and especially dairying, should form an 

 important part. 



This is the problem the nation must face. Illinois has a 

 still greater question to settle. Is she going to devote her ener- 

 gies to producing grain and let the other states produce the dairy 

 products? This is just what will happen to a large extent unless 

 something is speedily done to check the present trend of grain 

 farming. Wisconsin is, at present, largely a dairy state, and 

 Iowa, after years of dairy slumber, is at last awakened and com- 

 ing in to her own with a wonderful interest in upbuilding her 

 dairy industry. 



Struggle for Food Is Close at Hand. 



The all important question for any people is, of course, its 

 food supply, which is essentially the energy supply. To show 

 the future possibilities in rightly conducted dairying, it seems 

 well to give a general outlook of our future needs in regard to 

 the food supply. This can best be done by quoting" from Dean 

 Eugene Davenport. 



"The population is beginning to overtake production in this 

 country. We have doubled our population four times a century. 

 By twenty-five years from now, at this rate, there will be as 

 many people living at one time and asking for food as have now 

 lived up to this time since America was discovered. In fifty years 

 from now we shall have the population of China in this country, 



