HOW THE DANES DO IT.

Shannon News, 24 April 1925, Page 4

HOW THE DANES DO IT.

The 800 lbs of Butterfat Standard. When imports of Danish butter arrive freely in the United States, a roar is heard from the producers here, says “the Pacific Dairy Review.” It goes 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 Da'nes do it, they would learn something that could be of infinitely more value to them .than a tariff rate so high or a'ay other obstruction against the importation of butter. After explaining, that the Danes import most of the concentrated feeds including a vast amount of cottonseed meal from the United States as well as grow large amounts of roots, etc., at home, the paper makes the following statement: —

How the Da'nes, under such a high feed and labour cost on their butter, get by was recently explained in an address by Dr. C. W. Larson, cheif 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 SOO pounds of butterfat in a year. It is this kind of a cow that jumps over our butler tariff wall, and she certainly plays havoc with a lot of our dairy cows. When we get the kind of cows the Danes have and handle them as well as they do we will be in a postt'pu to forget about the wall.