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This is a reproduction of the center of the magnificent exhibit of the United 
States Department of Agriculture at the National Dairy Show. On the 
left of the stream is the farm country representing the “Supply of Farm 
Products.’’ On the right is the city, representing the “Demand for Farm 
Products.” The bridge, spanning the gap and connecting the two is “Coop¬ 
erative Organization,” over which a train of produce is passing. The piers 
or the foundations of the bridge are “Well Informed Membership” and 
“Sound Business Principles.” The keystone of the arch is “Mutual Con¬ 
fidence.” The other blocks in the arch supporting “Mutual Confidence,” 
represent essential business principles in successful cooperative organiza¬ 
tion. In the background is the dawn coming up, “Cooperative Marketing.” 
This exhibit is by far one of the cleverest and most inspiring at the 
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cans and other 
dairy equipment. 
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Creamery, Dairy and Dairy 
Barn Equipment 
59 Murray St. New York City 
Dairy Show High Lights 
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I HAVE just returned 
from the Dairy Show 
at Syracuse, and while the presses for 
this issue wait, I want to give you a 
few outstanding impressions of what 
was the largest and in many respects, 
the best gathering of the dairy in¬ 
terests ever held. Details such as the 
award of prizes and other information 
will follow in next week’s issue. 
The attendance, while very good, 
was somewhat disappointing to the pro¬ 
moters. Before the Dairy Show could 
be brought to Syracuse, it was neces¬ 
sary to guarantee the leaders an at¬ 
tendance of 100,000 people. I have 
not the final figures at this writing, 
but the indications are that the total 
will be somewhat less than the 100,000 
expected. 
Another thing that impressed me 
about the people who attended the Show 
was the apparent absence of the aver¬ 
age dairyman, the man who does not 
own pure-bred cows, but who does milk 
from ten to twenty first-class grades. 
I think it is a just criticism of the 
Dairy Show that not enough average 
farmers were there, and that there 
was not enough appeal to such farm¬ 
ers when they did come. It was a 
breeders’ show and not a dairymen’s 
show. Of course, one reason for this 
is the fact that the average farmer 
because of pressure of work and short¬ 
age of help had to stay at home and 
milk his own cows instead of going to 
see somebody else’s. 
The machinery exhibit was impres¬ 
sive. It was the largest in both amount 
and variety that I ever saw. No one 
could walk through and make even a 
brief inspection of the complicated and 
costly machinery used iy the produc¬ 
tion and particularly in the manufac¬ 
ture and distribution of dairy products 
without realizing the tremendous costs 
that are involved in handling milk. 
When you see this machinery, know¬ 
ing how costly it is and how much of 
it is needed, even to equip one modern 
milk plant, you get some idea of why 
there is such a difference between what 
the farmer gets for his milk and what 
the consumer pays for it. Certainly 
there are few other lines of business 
where the machinery and equipment 
capitalization is so high. 
The exhibits and demonstrations 
showing the food value of milk and its 
products were both interesting and ed¬ 
ucational. The large number of people 
that stopped before the nutritional ex¬ 
hibits showed the interest that every¬ 
one is now taking in the food value of 
dairy products. 
One of the most interesting things to 
me was the several beautiful designs 
and monuments made entirely out of 
butter. For instance, Ohio had a com¬ 
plete and fairly large 
size statue of the late 
President Harding sculptured entirely 
from butter and preserved in a glass 
enclosure where the temperature was 
low so the butter could not melt. 
There was every kind and variety of 
cheese made in the world and liberal 
quantities were given away. So at¬ 
tractively arranged and of such high 
quality were these cheese exhibits that 
I know nearly everyone who saw and 
tasted them made the same resolve that 
I did; that is, to go home and buy 
more cheese, and especially try out 
some of the fancy varieties. Nor 
should we forget to mention Dairy¬ 
men’s League ice cream which every¬ 
one was eating. 
But, of course, the big thing of the 
Dairy Show was the cows, and I think 
it perfectly safe to say that never be¬ 
fore were there so many of such high 
quality dairy animals ever brought to¬ 
gether. All of the time that the judg¬ 
ing was going on the great majority 
of all the people on the grounds showed 
their interest in the cattle by sitting 
or standing for hours in the new 
Coliseum to watch the beautiful repre¬ 
sentatives of the leading dairy breeds 
as they were led up and down in the 
ring while the judges did their work. 
But I am sorry to say that except 
for the time that the judging was go¬ 
ing on, this exhibition of the best 
dairy cows in the world was of little 
benefit to the average dairyman. The 
animals were kept covered with 
blankets in the barns and except for a 
comparatively small number there were 
no descriptions in any way, shape or 
manner about any particular individ¬ 
ual or herd. I claim and I have said 
for years, that to the average farmer 
a large part of the value of an ex¬ 
hibit of dairy cattle is lost at the 
county and State fairs and the Na¬ 
tional Shows because there are no de¬ 
scriptive signs to tell one cow from 
another. In addition, they are usually 
blanketed. 
And to add insult to injury, if one 
had interest enough to want to learn 
something about these great animals, 
he was forced to go and look up a cat¬ 
alog, and pay for it, of course only a 
very few will do this. Because of this, 
I am inclined to sympathize with the 
man who said: “Where is the dairy in 
the Dairy Show?” meaning that he 
was disappointed in the lack of in¬ 
timate appeal to the man with the small 
herd of grades. 
I believe that one of the best results 
from this Dairy Show and the World’s 
Dairy Congress, held in conjunction 
with it, is the impressions which the 
hundreds of delegates from all over the 
{Continued on -page 274) 
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