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TShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 20, 1917 
MERIDALE 
JERSEYS 
T he prestige of the Island 
Family has added largely 
to the wide reputation of the 
Meridale Herd. More than a 
^ few show cows of outstanding 
merit may be seen in our harn 
of imported Jerseys, while the 
A. J. C. C. Register of Merit 
gives conclusive proof of their 
producing ability. 
The Imported Jap 75265 is 
the ranking bull in the Island 
Family, while his son, The 
Jap’s Owl 138146, and Karnak’s 
Meridale Owl 121862, son of 
his full sister, Raleigh’s Pretty 
Karnak 252135, lare perpetuat¬ 
ing the rich qualities character¬ 
istic of his blood. 
Daughters of Oxford You’ll 
Do, The Cid, Oxford Majesty, 
General Cowslip,The Plymouth 
Lad, Gamboge’s Knight, Fern’s 
Oxford Noble, Cowslip’s Golden 
Noble, and other popular Island 
prize winners are also numbered 
among Meridale Jerseys. 
20 Heifers of 
Island Blood 
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We have pardonable pride in 20 heifers 
from the Island Family offered from the 
Meridale Herd this fall. They have been 
carefully selected as truly representative of 
the best qualities of the Island strains. They 
show all the style and finish of the Island, 
and possess the added advantage to the 
American breeder that they have been devel¬ 
oped under typically American conditions. 
They range in age from small calf to the 
two-year-old, and include more than a few 
imported from the Island. 
They will be sold as a car-load lot if de¬ 
sired. Come and see them at Meridale 
Farms or write for particulars. 
AYER & McKinney 
300 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. 
The Future of Dairying 
Pai:t I. 
Past Progress. —Let any dairyman 
of middle years stop for a moment and 
think what has happened to the industry 
during the past quarter of a century. 
After this exhibit of most astonishing 
dairy progress, it would appear that 
neither an active nor imaginative mind 
could predict any such important and far 
reaching discoveries or lines of progress 
in the 25 years to come; that at best 
they must be of minor importance, 
as it would seem that the real basic facts 
have been brought to notice. We can 
hardly expect two more allied discoveries 
that will have the far-reaching purport of 
Dr. P.abcock's invention of the milk fat 
test, and his other, that of the inherent 
presence of “enzymes” in the milk, and 
not the added rennet, which is the real 
agent that turns curd into cured cheese. 
To do this perfectly the green cheese 
should very soon be coated with parafiin 
ceeded its sales of milk products. In 
this no one breed Avill have mastery. 
What is to be the .special demand from a 
locality, will govern what breed and type 
of cow. .will best fill the want. 
The Hpect.m. Purpose Cow. —In the 
very near future the common and mixed- 
breed cow will be largely retired and the 
cow to take her place will be a special 
type, bred .along intense lines. A pedi¬ 
gree will be essential to trace lines of 
descent, but the value will be determined 
by her lines of high producing ancestry, 
and what she can do herself. Breeding cows 
then will be from the standpoint of con¬ 
centration of milking qualities of past 
ancestry, instead of so much outcrossing 
to get “fresh blood,” and m this the sire 
will be recognized, as never before, to be 
the great dominating force in the pro¬ 
gressive breeding of a dairy. In him we 
shall find the great collecting energy and 
transmitter of desired dairy qualities. 
We shall recognize also that the best suc¬ 
Residence on John Gould’s Farm, Portage Co. Ohio 
and consigiH'd to cold storage, instead of 
furnace room, .so cold th.at no germs or 
ferments can colonize, and there allowed 
time to “digest itself,” a fact that has 
added millions of dollars benefit to the 
cheese industry, and correspondingly to 
the butter indu.stry, all the results of in¬ 
vestigating science and not to luck or 
accident. 
Future Pos.sibieities. —In the next 
25 years I believe that the greatest ad¬ 
vance in dairying will be more in the 
nature of reorganization of the business 
from farm to the uttermost limits of the 
trade; readjustment between the producer, 
the commercial promoter and the final 
consumer, and then the reconstruction 
of the farmer’s own producing plant, 
more efficient labor, a better cow, yet 
cheaper feeding, and a fijial repropor- 
tio’ned share of the “divided” dollar. It 
looks as if the conspicuous advances in 
the dairy industry of the future will be 
along the lines of co-operative effort 
among dairymen not only in the produc¬ 
tion, but in the disposing of the products, 
with as near touch as possible with the 
consumer. 
Community Dairying. —Of course all 
this implies community dairying, wherein 
the cows of a designated locality will be 
of the one breed best adapted to .sui)ply a 
large demanded want. With a uniform 
system of caring for ijhose herds, it 
would bring a greatly enhanced reputa¬ 
tion and reward for the uniform produc¬ 
ing of an .article. Maintaining its purity 
and excellence brings its reward in en¬ 
hanced prices, which always follow the 
ple.asiug of discriminating consumers. In 
a limited way, this community dairying 
has made a promising start in Geauga Co., 
O., where a large number of dairymen 
are associated as community dairymen. 
Fach one breeds purebred cows of one 
breed. These men breed, feed, care for 
and house their stock as nearly alike as 
possible, and in 'addition to the advant¬ 
ages gained, have caught the eyes of the 
dairy breeders of the Western world, and 
from these herds were sold as surplus 
dairy stock in 1014 nearly $700,000 in 
cash, all because of the uniformity of 
breeding care. They attained herds of 
excellent types and notably large yields, 
for in many a herd, its sales of surplus 
stock quite equaled and- often far ex¬ 
cess in breeding will always come by 
line-breeding among the members of one 
family of a breed, and the results of try¬ 
ing to “nick” the members of unlike in¬ 
fluences to promote quality, health, and 
vigor, will be found so rarely attained, 
that the bettennent sought will in reality 
be a lottery with loaded dice. When one 
has a sire of great prepotency in dairy 
quality, he will be retained for years at 
the head of .a herd and we will learn that 
it is by close line and intense breeding 
tlnit the sought-for bettering qualities 
are to be established and maintained, 
and anything like insurance in high pro¬ 
duction must enme from this concentrated 
inheritance, temperament, and controlling 
prepotenc}’. This means the dairyman 
Avill become a breeder with a fund of 
guiding facts before him, and will raise 
his own recruits to keep up the dairy, 
and supply the demand for surplus stock. 
If this were done, 10,000,000 cows would 
produce even more than do our present 
22,000,000 and at half the cost of feed 
and labor. This great amount of unused 
feed would go into the market to aug¬ 
ment the net profits of the farm. 
Feeding. —Indications are that the 
dairies of the future will be more econom¬ 
ically fed from, the fact that the farmer will 
better understand plant gniwth, and can 
more nearly produce a balanced ration 
upon his own farm. Crops with large 
percentages of protein will become gen¬ 
eral, and the cost of keep correspondingly 
reduced, and fed to a better producing 
cow, will make for a profit that is not 
general today. 
Dairy Appliances. —^The mechanism 
of the dairy is now so varied and 
satisfactory that it is hard to venture 
much in the way of betterments for the 
future. We shall always make butter 
and cheese, much milk will be creamed, 
and the separator will always do it, unless 
some form of chemical separation should 
be worked out. Filectricity may play a 
part in some future process of manu¬ 
facture. Cheese will always be made up 
of milk fat and casein. The milking 
machine will come into .general use, the 
milk for the cities will be handled more 
efficiently, and the producer will become 
an active partner in some form. 
Ohio. .lOTIN GOULD. 
