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what the dairy cow means to a community so far as farm credit is con- 

 cerned: We have over 45,000 cows in the county in which I live. The 

 farmers there, most of them, own their automobiles, and have good homes, 

 and are good farmers, and have money in the bank, and they are not. 

 worrying much about farm credit, and they look at it with some amusement 

 because they have the dairy cow. 



DOCTOR WORST: 



There is just one thought that I think worthy of presentation here and 

 it is in full harmony with Mr. Borman, and I want to throw it out. 



I have been making some figures and I take it for granted that a 

 fairly good cow will produce in a year, cream that would sell for $80; that 

 the skim milk to the calf should be worth $20; that the government says 

 the manure is worth $19. That would make $119 income a year from one 

 cow. You should endeavor not only to live comfortably while you are 

 young, but also to have enough property accumulated to maintain yourself 

 and wife during declining age, and when you have done that you have 

 answered the purpose for which you were placed here. 



If you will start your boy out at the age of 21 and teach him some- 

 thing of the principles of dairying and set aside the gross income of just 

 one cow and if he has the business sagacity to keep the gross income of 

 that cow until he is 71 years — at the end of 50 years that one cow will 

 place to his credit $30,000. I ask you whether it is not worth while to 

 engage in the dairy business and to keep this one thing in view and make 

 preparation for the declining years of life? Can you do it better, and 

 is there any business that offers such a splendid opportunity ? One cow will 

 place to a man's credit $30,000, and if she is an extraordinary cow, she will 

 place to his credit $60,000, for the calves will make the difference. 



MR. WEBSTER: 



We will now hear from O. E. Reed, Professor of Dairy Husbandry, 

 the Kansas Agricultural College, and the work he is doing in connection 

 therewith^ Professor Reed. 



Address of Professor Reed 

 SORGHUM CROPS FOR SILAGE 



I think there has been enough said, perhaps, on the advantage of the 

 sorghum crops, etc., but I will begin at once to talk on crops for silage. 



Sorghum crops, both saccharine and nonsaccharine (sweet and non- 

 sweet), can be used for silage with good results. The corn plant has con- 

 siderable prestige as a silage crop, and it has been more generally used for 

 silage than any other crop. In fact, its use has become so general that 

 some of the farmers and stockmen have believed that it was the only crop 

 fit to be used for this purpose. 



Two years ago the Dairy Department of the Kansas Agricultural Col- 

 lege planned an experiment to determine the value of sorghums for silage. 



