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November 4, 1922 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
on exhibition. From milking machine to 
delivery truck—all arranged in a most 
attractive assembly—could be found, and 
if interested, one could trace the milk 
from the cow’s udder to its final niche in 
the icebox of a model home. Clearly the 
machinery show was the most attractive 
feature of the entire meet. 
It was pleasing to note the genuine en¬ 
thusiasm and loyal support that the mer¬ 
chants and business men of the “Twin 
Cities” evidenced toward this notable 
event. Almost every building was espe¬ 
cially dressed for the occasion; the city 
was postered from end to end ; the dairy 
show arrows prevented one from taking 
a single extra step. The papers issued 
special dairy show editions, every one 
seemingly eager to contribute his share of 
time or money toward making (lie event 
successful. Kven before it was decided 
in hold the show at St. Paul a group of 
“Twin City” business men took their pens 
iu hand and guaranteed 100,000 admis¬ 
sions. If anyone doubts the wisdom of 
urging a community to go into the dairy 
business or questions what the cow will 
eventually accomplish for her owner, let 
him wander around through .Minnesota 
and Wisconsin and ask the farmer or the 
merchant what would happen should the 
old cow go on strike, as did the miners or 
railroad operatives, simply because the 
price of milk was of necessity reduced in 
price. This year’s slogan, “Prosperity 
follows the dairy cow." tells the whole 
story, and the farmers and business men 
of the Northwest are duly appreciative of 
what the dairy cow has achieved for 
them. 
It is evident on every hand that both 
Minnesota and Wisconsin have ap¬ 
proached their dairy problems witli far- 
sighted judgment. Less than 12 per cent 
of the milk produced in these two States 
is sold as market milk, the bulk going 
into butter and cheese. Instead of shoot¬ 
ing all of their product into the large 
cities and fightiug with the milk dis¬ 
tributers they have managed to locate 
creameries and cheese factories in the 
producing sections. Now they are ar¬ 
ranging for storage warehouses and ere 
long will have in working order a system 
of marketing that will take most of the 
speculation out of their dairy activities. 
Governor Hoard was in reality .sponsor 
for this business policy. He realized 
that stability and insurance against sud¬ 
den or unnecessary fluctuations in price 
were absolutely essential and sensed the 
solution of many present-day problems 
almost 50 years ago. 
Over 000 tubs of butter were entered 
in competition. Market milk, cheese and 
ice cream each contended for the sec¬ 
tional prizes. The "Healthlaud Clinic” 
was an institution by itself. Naturally 
the important part that milk and genuine 
dairy products play in nutrition and 
health were featured. The unbelievable 
accomplishments that have resulted from 
introducing milk in the public schools 
and from other educational propaganda 
that has been supported in part by the 
National Dairy Council was graphically 
displayed. Children known to be stunted 
both physically and mentally came back 
promptly after the products for the dairy 
cow were supplied in generous quanti¬ 
ties-. Responsible officials and medical 
men subscribe to the testimony asserting 
that not only has the output for milk 
been greatly extended, but that vitality 
and health restoration among both chil¬ 
dren and adults has been achieved far 
beyond their expectations. The results 
of experiments where poultry, pigs and 
puppies were fed identical rations with 
and without milk were given, and milk 
won every time. 
Two new breed champions were on dis¬ 
play, Pearl's Dot being the new Guern¬ 
sey queen and Hawthorne Dairymaid the 
new Drown Swiss world’s record cow. 
The former, one of six full sisters, four 
of which are cla-s leaders, produced 
10,602.5 lbs. of milk and IHJS lbs. of fat. 
She now leads in Class Double A. The 
Swiss cow gave over 22,000 lbs. of milk 
and upwards of 000 lbs. of butter. The 
show of Drown 'Swiss exceeded any ex¬ 
hibition ever given by the breeders, and 
much improvement in type has been 
made iu the last few years. The Jersey 
show was small in numbers, but out¬ 
standing in quality. Twin Oaks Farm, 
Morristown, N. J., won both grand 
championships. The showing of Ayr¬ 
shire^ was not up to the standard estab¬ 
lished three years ago, bur the tops were 
real show specimens. Both Guernseys 
and Holstein- were yet to be judged when 
this report was put iu the mails. 
The dairy science meetings were an in¬ 
spiration to research men. North Da¬ 
kota won tbc high honors in the college 
judging contest, with Oregon second and 
Iowa third. The New Hampshire trio 
were high in Guernseys, the Oregon team 
high in Jerseys, Indiana high with IIol- 
steins. and the North Dakota team high 
with Ayrshires. The high man cm all 
breeds was Oliver K, Deals of the Oregon 
group. The contest was clean and spir¬ 
ited and very efficiently conducted. It 
was a great show, and the attendance 
was far in excess of that recorded during 
other years, F, o, m. 
The Great National Dairy Show 
The dairy cow. supported by the insti¬ 
tutions, equipment and following that her 
own products virtually have created, cap¬ 
tivated the great Northwest at. St. Paul 
last week. The Twin Cities swarmed 
with people whose major interests cen¬ 
tered around some phase of the dairy in¬ 
dustry. Forgetting, for the time being, 
the grain, flour and diversified milling ac¬ 
tivities that flourish in this old-time 
prairie district, the whole community 
seemingly halted routine long enough to 
visualize the inventory of the dairy in¬ 
dustry as portrayed by the educational 
features of the National Dairy Show. 
The event was enthusiastically wel¬ 
comed. The boys' and girls' calf clubs 
from many States participated in demon¬ 
strations. and the youngsters from Mary¬ 
land were heralded winners, iu the junior 
judging contest. Elizabeth Willcrton, 
from Ohio, won the individual high score 
in judging the several classes of dairy 
animals. Eight colleges entered teams in 
the dairy products judging competition, 
20 teams competed in the judging of 
dairy animals. Ohio, for the third time 
in succession, won the former, and North 
Dakota the latter. Oliver K. Beale of 
Oregon was declared the winner of the 
coveted honors in judging dairy animals. 
From first to last the educational fea¬ 
tures were dominant. The dairy division 
of the Federal Government displayed a 
most illuminating array of facts about 
the dairy cow, the dairy industry and the 
complicated economics involved in pro¬ 
ducing and marketing dairy products. 
The research involved in compiling this 
data is simply stupendous. It was staged 
and illustrated in an attractive, under¬ 
standable form, and released information 
that every dairyman could use and adopt 
in his every day farm practices. The re¬ 
sults of the campaign for introducing 
more purebred sires were tabulated; the 
finding of the several cow test associa¬ 
tions were displayed and the advantages 
of both undertakings werecleverly illus¬ 
trated. Even the casual observer found 
himself studying this exhibit and noting 
down some of its most striking lessons. 
All of the dairy breed registry associa¬ 
tions made creditable educational display. 
The Jersey Cattle Club featured the 
achievements of Elizabeth Farley of Am¬ 
herst. Three years ago she borrowed 
$125 to buy a purebred Jersey cow; now 
she has assembled a herd of 20 animals, 
has paid for them by personally operating 
a milk route and b’v caring for the cows 
and milk business herself. At the East¬ 
ern States Exposition, held at Spring- 
field, one of her cows, Rachel, was ad¬ 
judged the “best Jersey cow hied and ex¬ 
hibited from the State of Massachusetts.” 
The Holstein-Friesian Association 
launched its new extension campaign 
and proposes to ask the various colleges 
and extension divisions to guide them and 
to unite with the association in further¬ 
ing the interests of the black and white 
cow. Its exhibit of enlarged photos fea¬ 
tured the results of the Iowa experiment, 
where marked improvement in type and 
increased production of milk resulted 
from mating common grades of Western 
origin to native purebred Holstein bulls. 
It tended to appreciate the importance of 
the grade dairy cow and emphasized the 
necessity of culling, grading and intelli¬ 
gent feeding. Observers were impressed 
with the necessity for constructive breed¬ 
ing, and were given to understand that 
the real measure of a good bull could 
only be taken by comparing the type anil 
production of his heifer calves with the 
record of their dams. If perchance the 
bull failed to improve either factor, lie 
would exemplify the slogan “A good hull 
Is half the herd, a poor one is the whole 
thing.” 
The Guernsey Cattle Club exhibited a 
five-generation group of cattle that told a 
very convincing story. It convinced the 
onlookers that both type and milk pro¬ 
duction can be steadily improved and in¬ 
creased through the use of prepotent. 
Guernsey sires. On viewing the display 
one was attracted by enlarged portraits 
of class leaders and by the interesting 
facts and figures that were compiled from 
Guernsey achievements. It was pointed 
out that not only have the prices of pure¬ 
bred Guernsey cows held steadily, bill 
that the prices obtained for grades has 
materially increased during the' period 
when other types had slumped. Evi¬ 
dently the public is "sold" on the idea 
of coior and quality of milk ns produced 
by representatives of this breed. 
The Ayrshire association featured tlie 
Western trend of dairying and pointed 
out in convincing display that the Ayr¬ 
shire cow is especialy adapted to serve 
the dairyman who appreciates rugged- 
ness, rare grazing qualities and highly- de 
veloped milking characteristics. If if is 
desired to manufacture quality cheese or 
to produce a 4 per cent milk, especially 
suited for infant feeding, the supporters 
of this breed arc confident that the Ayr¬ 
shire cannot he excelled. 
There was no visible end to the dairy 
equipment and machinery show. Every 
type of device or invention that has to 
do with the handling of milk or cows or 
dairy products was either in operation or 
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