American Agriculturist, May 26,1923 
Syracuse Meeting Boosts Dairy Show 
Success Assured By Pledges From All Farm Organizations 
F our hundred and fifty farm leaders, 
including representatives from nearly 
every agricultural county in New 
York State and from the eleven other 
agricultural States, met at a dinner at Syra¬ 
cuse, Monday evening, May 14, to complete 
the organization and lay the plans for the 
National Dairy Show and World’s Dairy 
Congress which are to meet on the State Fair 
Grounds October 5 to 10, 1923. 
The dinner was given in honor of E, Skin¬ 
ner, manager of the National Dairy Associa¬ 
tion, and was held under the auspices of the 
Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. New York 
State Conference Board of Farm Organiza¬ 
tions, and the New York Cooperative Coun¬ 
cil. Much of the credit for the large repre¬ 
sentative attendance and the enthusiasm 
which prevailed was due to the work and or¬ 
ganization ability of Professor M. C. Burritt, 
of the New York State College of Agricul¬ 
ture, and J. D. Barnum, publisher of the 
Syracuse Post-Standard. During the din¬ 
ner, the assemblage was splendidly enter¬ 
tained by an orchestra, a male quartet, and 
community singing. 
Presiding at the honor table was W. W. 
Wiard, vice president of the Syracuse Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce. Messages of welcome to 
the farmers were extended by John Walrath, 
Mayor of Syracuse, George R. Lunn, Lieu¬ 
tenant-Governor of New York State, and 
Charles W. Flint, chancellor of Syracuse Uni¬ 
versity. The toastmaster was Albert R. 
Mann, dean of the New York State College 
of Agriculture. Much credit was due to 
Dean Mann- for handling the long list of 
speakers in such a way that no one in the 
audience became tired. 
The chief speech of the evening was made 
by W. E. Skinner, the honor guest, on the 
subject, “The Service of the National Dairy 
Show for Eastern Agriculture.” Mr, Skin¬ 
ner said that the National Dairy Show is 
operated by the National Dairy Association, 
which was started some 17 years ago, for the 
purpose of improving the dairy breeds of 
America, and increasing the consumption of 
dairy products. The National Dairy Show is 
made up of and supported by producers and 
representatives of all interests that manu¬ 
facture or distribute milk. Each year the 
work of the Dairy Association is culminated 
by a National Dairy Exposition. Up to 1916, 
these shows had been held in Chicago. In 
1916, upon the request of the daily interests 
of New England, the show was staged at 
Springfield, Mass. During 1917 and 1918, 
it was held in Ohio; during the following 
two years, it went back to Chicago, its origi¬ 
nal home. In 1921 and 1922, it was held in 
St. Paul, Minnesota. It now comes back to 
the East to Syracuse in October, 1923, to 
help the eastern dairy industry. 
- Mr. Skinner then gave his audience some 
idea of the tremendous size and extent of 
the exhibits which will be at Syracuse this 
fall. In the big building at the entrance of 
the Fair Grounds, known as Manufacturers’ 
Hall, there will be exhibited all implements 
that the genius of man has perfected for 
handling milk and all of its products. The 
United States Department of Agriculture 
has appropriated $25,000 alone to show in 
this building what is being done for the 
dairy industry. 
Near the Manufacturers’ Building, there 
are the Daip?- Building and the State In¬ 
stitute Building, where there will be exhibits 
especially arranged, showing the scientific 
equipment that is used in research work con¬ 
nected with the dairy business. Many of 
these exhibits will show scientific instru¬ 
ments invented and used in Europe. Just 
one exhibit in the main room of this build¬ 
ing, showing the possibilities of butter and 
cheese production, will contain samples of 
cheese from 45 States and butter from 41 
States. A very interesting exhibit will be 
given by various nutritional agencies from 
all over the world showing the many and 
varied uses of butter and other dairy prod¬ 
ucts in the diet. 
In the Poultry Building there will be every¬ 
thing connected with the barn and farm 
used in the production of milk, including 
milking machines, separators, milk houses 
and equipment, etc. 
The dairy cattle at the National Dairy 
Show will alone be worth the trip of every 
dairyman in the East. The cattle barns will 
be filled with representative cattle of the five 
dairy breeds. “These will come,” said Mr. 
Skinner, “from the four corners of the United 
States.” 
One of the interesting studies being made 
by the National Dairy Association, accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Skinner, is the effect that climate 
and altitude have on the production of milk. 
He said that it had been found that a heifer 
raised in Texas and taken north and wintered 
for two years will weigh 600 pounds more 
than her sister of the same, age left in Texas. 
The speaker emphasized the thought that it 
ought not to be necessary to import cattle 
from other countries for there are larger 
possibilities of improving our own cattle. 
Mr. Skinner congratulated New York State 
on the building of the new coliseum on the 
Fair Grounds where the. cattle will be judged. 
This coliseum has a seating capacity of 500,- 
000 people, with a judging arena of 100 x 200 
feet. 
Lovers of horses will be pleased with the 
night horse show and exhibit in the horse 
barn of 200 to 300 of the nation’s best horses. 
^ Not the least interesting of the cattle ex¬ 
hibits will be 100 to 200 calves from an equal 
number of boys and girls who will be pres¬ 
ent to demonstrate what the calf clubs of 
the country are doing for the young people 
of the farms. 
Manager Skinner proceeded to show why 
an institution like the National Dairy As¬ 
sociation and Show was so necessary. He 
said the Daily Show came with the change 
brought about by the disappearance of the 
great range country; that with the going of 
the cheap lands, dairy and all other farming 
had become much more intensive; that farm¬ 
ing was much more of a business than ever 
before, and that to meet the demands of this 
intensive business, much education was 
necessary. “The dairy cow, the hen and the 
hog,” said Mr. Skinner, “are the only op¬ 
portunities the farmer has for a quick turn¬ 
over. The Dairy Show exists for the pur¬ 
pose of helping the farmer make that turn¬ 
over profitably so far as the dairy cow is 
concerned.” 
To show the rapid increase in the im¬ 
portance of the dairy industry, the speaker 
said that, “in 1920, corn was king, with a 
farm value of $1,300,000,000; in 1921, the 
farm value of dairy products of the country 
was nearly twice as much or $2,409,000,000. 
Bankers are in the habit of thinking in terms 
of gold. Yet in 17 years, the total output of 
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Joint Meeting of Conference Board of Farm Organizations and Cooperative Council 
Standing (left to right)—W. E. Mathers, E. J. Walrath, H. R. Talmadge, E. Y- Underwood, T. E. Milliman, A. L. Brockway, L. R. Simons, L. E. Porter, F. 
E. Robertson, H. E. Aiken, W. P. Harper, R, P. McPherson, W. E. Davis, M. C. Burritt, C. H. Moore, Fred Freestone, C. J. Mitchell, Oscar Soule, N. F. Webb, 
R. E. Duell, M. C. Bond and W. M. Rider. 
Seated (left to ri,ght)—H. E. Babcock, C. G. Porter, T. E. Cross, E. R. Eastman, Albert Manning, C. F. Bigler, Charles Wilson, H. W. Davis, Mrs. A. E. Brigden 
and Mrs. R. G. Smith 
