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Show I Keep Up Dairying. tn times of prosperity it Is well not I to forget the days of adversity that we have seen and may see again. Today To-day there Is money In almost any , kind of farming. More money can I be made In raising beef and pork perhaps per-haps than tn making butter, but this Is a condition that belongs to prosperity. pros-perity. When tho gloomy days come, nnd the pig and tho steer cease to return re-turn a profit, Is tho time when tho cow Is found to be a standby. Tho profit Eho returns In prosperity and in adversity ad-versity Is not a large one, but it Is a profit nevertheless and not to be despised. de-spised. It Is very noticeable at a time when other things nro returning losses. 60 at this time the cow should not be forgotten. Many a man will havo to fall back on her yet. During tho hard times of a few years ago thousands of men went to milking cows that had never done so before. But they discovered then that they had not been preparing their herds for that possibility, and consequently had to milk cows that gave them very little profit. They had been In the ' j past breeding to beef bulls and had calves of mixed blood. They then " wished they had Baved their best calves for milkers. Yet after the clouds had passed away they forgot all about their former experiences and went to selling their good cows and good calves and breeding dairy cows to beef bulls. Thoy aro likely to repeat re-peat their, old mlstako and experience the old regrets. What should be done at this timo Is to keep the best dairy cows and breed them to the best dairy bulls, retaining their calves it they show signs of developing Into good milkers. In thU way a fairly good lot of cows will be ready for work when nneded. It is sad to relato that at this time even good cows aro being be-ing sent to the butcher, the ovner having become fixed in the Idea that prosperity Is henceforth to be perpetual. per-petual. Farmers' Review". |