FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 51 



The spirit of co-operation shown speaks much all along the 

 lines of industry. 



There is no system of farming that has yet been devised 

 whereby we can continue to build up our farms, passing them 

 on from father to son, from one generation to the next, 1)etter 

 farms, more productive, that does not include live stock in the 

 proposition. Further, there is no other type of live stock that 

 will continue to give returns to the farm, that will bring in the 

 money more regularly, that will continue to fit m and build up the 

 farm, equal to the dairy cow. I have not time to go farther into 

 that. I don't think any farmer will question that. ^Ve are 

 farming for what? To feed the people of the I'nited Siates 

 and of the world, that is our job and that's why v^^e farm. If 

 the people did not have to be fed and clothed, you and 1 could 

 get along without doing as much work. The dairy cow pro- 

 duces more food for men, more economically, and more profit- 

 ably than any live stock, consequently you will (ind them all 

 over the country. Lots of us can remember when all bovine 

 live stock was beef cattle. I was born near the Atlantic Coast 

 and I can remember when there was not a thing in that section 

 of the country but beef stock and now there is nothing but dairy 

 cows. Dairying has crowded the beef animal up to the Middle 

 West, to the Rockies, and all the time the dairy cow is taking' 

 Its place. The dairy industry is going to continue to grow, • 

 because our country is increasing in population our people must 

 be fed and milch cows are best suited to do it. 



There are three things in connection with the live stock 

 industry, ''The Three Graces," if you like to call them that, 

 that we must tie to : 



The BREEDING, WEEDING and FEEDING of our 

 cattle. 



If you have to go before I get through ,take that idea with 

 you. I cannot tell which is the greatest of these three, they are all 

 equally great. 



I shall discuss the feeding of the dairy herd and wdiy it is 

 important. In the first place, of the total bill in connection with 

 the dairy herd, just about 50 per cent is represented in the feed. 

 That being the, case, it behooves us day by day to watch the 



