DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



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The cow must yield more than her offspring. The wise farmer will find 

 that the income derived from her milk will be more than that from the 

 calf. He will find that type that will at least bring in a double income from 

 calf and milk. Under dry farming conditions only those who have had 

 exceptional training as dairymen and are prepared to furnish the necessa- 

 ry food for high class special purpose cows can succeed with that class 

 of animals. I do not pose as an advocate of dual purpose stock, but under 

 conditions as they exist in the regions under consideration it is morally 

 certain that the dual purpose type is the one that will give the greatest 

 returns to the farmer, and that for those who become specially interested 

 in the milk yield there is a great field for developing a breed of dairy 

 cattle adapted to those conditions. 



While the dry land farmer is experimenting in and investigating the 

 multitudes of problems that are still unsolved in the production of crops 

 he can with a herd of good cows insure a steady daily income that will 

 enable him to keep himself and his family in comfort and provide those 

 things which to us are necessities and to our fathers were luxuries. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



CHAIRMAN M'CABE: The next number will be "Relation of Dry 

 Farming to the Livestock Industrj^" by Prof. W. C. Barnes, Inspector of 

 Grazing, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. Ladies and gentlemen, I take pleasure in introducing- Prof. 

 Barnes. (Applause.) 



RELATION OF DRY FARMING TO THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY. 



(Prof. Will C. Barnes, Washington, D. C.) 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Some are born great, others 

 achieve greatness, still others have it thrust upon them. I have been a 

 cattle man in New Mexico and Arizona for the last twenty-seven years, 

 and this is the first time I was ever called "professor." I don't know who 

 loaded that word onto me, but I am afraid it is the hat I am wearing — one 

 I picked up in Washington, because when I was down in Colorado the 

 other day to address some stock men on the questions of the forestry 

 service work I was passing a bunch of them, going to the meeting, and 

 they sized me up and they said, "Just look at that hat! Isn't that a fine 

 thing to come out here to tell us how to raise cattle?" I couldn't afford 

 another one, but I liave made up my mind that when I come out west 

 again I am going to stick to the soft hat. I don't know whether that is 

 responsible for it or not, but I am afraid if I go out to New Mexico and 

 my friends there find that I am classed as a professor it will cost me my 

 standing. (Laughter.) 



I have been given a subject which is very close to me in many of its 

 features — "Relation of Dry Farming to the Stock Man." There is no one 

 cause that has put the stock business in the hole so many times as has 

 the impossibility of taking care of the cattle and sheep after we got them 

 raised. We may have a good summer and the cattle and sheep and horses 



