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Bruce Herald, Volume LV, Issue 66, 28 August 1919, Page 3

Hoard's Dairyman says:—The general 'feeling of optimism' concerning the dairy industry fiudb support in a pamphlet from: the United States Department of 'Agriculture. Not only are its remarks encouraging as to the present ibut thei outlook is stifficiontly 'bright to warrant farmers in. "maintaining or'increaSin'g their herds.'' The department report re'cOrds asatisfactory increase in the number of. ■dairy , cattle -during the past year, estimating the "tot ail number on farms on January 21,' 1010, as 25_^i67,000.! Tliis i 3 an in-. . crease 'of .7 per cent, over the number a year ago, and even though it ia not a larger percentage it controvert® the voicinga of ithose who have claime d dairy farmers, were, slaughtering dairy cattle in such -numbers as to markedly , lesjen. the <;ow, population. The. use of dairy; "prp-ducta isso necessary .in nor-, mul healthy living that increases in population are closely associated with a larger : supply of milk, butter and. cheese. Thus, the annual- increase in population, sdnce 1910 of 1.8 pet cent;' has 'been aceompaniedJby a yearly,increase' in cows of 1.0 per cent. The. department predicts: ,'! As a; population continues to grew, the demand for d'airy, products, will increase." Of the industry'a , Telatioa to thedemand 1 from 'Europe the department says: /'Moreover, the abnormal demand for diaiiy products in Europe, due to the war, islikely to continue! for' a year or mpre, andi as European peoples have'become accustomed to dairy products there appears to be an opportunity and. ; a tendency to expand; over: pre-war requirements in this '-direction.' A normal increase', in dairying, therefore, seems -to'be fully justified, providing there is ifehe necessary increase-in feed crops and ' the, prices -for dairy' products are. sufmain-