DANISH METHODS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4847, 1 July 1925, Page 2

DANISH METHODS.

THE 3001 b BUTTER-FAT STANDARD

LESSON TO BE LEARNED. "When imports of Danish butter arrive freely in the United States a roar is heard from tlie producers here,” says the “Pacific Dairy Review.” It goQs on to say that a demand' is usually made that a few more layers be placed on top of the tariff wall. If our dairymen would stop to think how the Danes do it. they would learn something that could be of infinitely more value to them than a tariff rate ■so high or any other obstruction against the importation of butter.

After explaining that the Danes import most of tlie concentrated feeds, including a vast amount, of cotton seed meal, from the United States, as well as grow large amounts'of roots, etc., at home, the paper makes the following statement: —

"How the Danes, under such a high feed and labour cost on their butter, get by was recently explained in an address by Dr. C. W. Larson, chief of the United States Bureau of Dairying. It is through the elimination of cows of low producing capacity. The Danish dairyman does not —in- fact, he cannot afford to —feed a cow that produces less than 300 pounds of butterfat in a year. It is this kind of cow that jumps over our butter tariff wall, and she certainly plays havbc with a lot of our dairy cows. When we get the kind of cows the’Danee have, and handle them as well as they ■ do, we will be in a position to forget about the wall.”