V
Lecture
by
Prof. McKay, in School Chapel.
I deem it a pleasure and an honor to
speak to you a few minutes' this even
ing. I hardly know what to say as Mr.
Cooper just informed me that 1 was to
talk to the students this evening, on
dairying.
The dairying industry is a very large
industry in the United States. There
are very few who have any conception
of the magnitude of the dairying indus
try. The annual income from this
branch of the industrial economics
amounts to $700,000,000.00 or 9 times
more than all of the gold and silver pro
duced in the world. In other words
dairying products cover little more than
1-10 of the agricultural products, and it
is a big problem to comprehend when it
is understood that the dairying products
are produced in about seven states, on'iy.
Oregon has a reputation in the East
and I might say, practically over the
world. Oregon is noted a- a business
state and is also noted for its fruits.
Hood River apples are found in Euro
pean markets and consequently- your
state has a line reputation in this line.
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Dairying was commenced here about
eight years ago. Dairy irg methods
have changed and now instead of the
old wooden pail with the up-and-down
dasher which is a thing of the past, we
have mechanical contrivances for the
work. Our markets today are the mar
kets of the world. We can send butter
from here to New York for 2 cents per
pound; we can send butter by rail and
steamboat to Liverpool for 2-A cents per
pound.
. This country with its mild climate re
minds very much of England's cli
mate consequently we might say this state
is a stock state but the distance from
the markets does not make it profitable.
Consequently we advocate dairying
transforming the natural fodder into
milk and cream. Now, we can turn
this cream into butter, consequently a
man who dairies intelligently can enter
the market with his finished product.
Yesterday, I visited Mr. Ladd's herd
in Portland. There they have the finest
stock in the United States and possibly
in the world. He has a cow worth $1,
000.00, a little cow, two years old which
holds the world's record for the amount
of butter produced from her. There is
a little cow weighing 200 pounds whose
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