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Show DAIRY FARM IS PROFITABLE Combined With Fruit ard Poultry Farmer Could Add Considerably to His Annual Income. Students of good farming everywhere every-where admit that dairy tarming is the most profitable of all farm work. In connection with the dairy, fruit and poultry could be raised, and they would add a great deal to the income, possibly the two combined, if worked to the best advantage, would produce as much income as the dairy. The fruit and poultry could be raised on the same land, which could also be used for the young calves of the dairy. By such a system of intensive farming, the profits would be increased in-creased to the greatest possible extent, ex-tent, considering the amount of land used. The man that keeps his share of dairy cows and manages them in the right manner will never find his land losing its fertility. As a means of keeping up the fertility of the soil, the dairy business cannot be beaten. Only a small amount of the elements are taken away from the soil without with-out being returned, and that small amount is very profitable. It is all right to pasture the cows in the corn, field after you have re- Promising Applicants for Dairy. moved all the corn, but it is a highty poor sense of business if you expect them to keep up their milk flow on corn fodder. Bring them in these cold nights and give them a good feed to supply what the corn fodder does not. Remember that if a cow once loses her flow of milk or it is decreased in quantity she will rarely regain it. Keep it up. |