Show f Save the Plant Food The farm fann products listed in this i table might be divided divid dInto into four our groups 1 1 meat and anti dairy dainy products 2 Z grain 8 I roots 4 fodders It will wiil be noted at once that meat and dairy products return large values alues per acre acre and take the smallest amount amo nt of plant nt I food from the farm When butter and hop hogs are the th only things sold off o tr the I farm 75 5 cents cants covers the total loss 1058 in plant food tood in hi selling 43 worth of products The farmer who concentrates t his crops first t into milk from which j he manufactures butter butler and then feeds the skim milk together with grain to hogs ho 8 retains practically Jy all aU the fertilia fer ing lag material of his crop his capital on his farm The progressive ive farmer saves Aves this plant food which is returned to him as manure and spreads It on O his farm fann thus maintaining and quick ening the fertility of the he soil soU and en abling it to gather yet yel greater grf ter crops In the future When we compare the loss of fertility f through the sale of gra grain n and stilt still more of hay crops it is l not Snot surprising that the ability of the farm to yield goOd crops is in time seriously serIous impaired This building up of the farm through I j the retention of its fertilizing material is t one of the very important advantages which the dairy industry brings br to the farmers of the state It promises es con ron and in many cases renewed vigor to the farm and an Increase in crop yield to the farmer j I I Dairying Helps But there are other directions in which dairying helps the farmer and especially the small firmer f It enables him to increase e directly the yearly ye re re turns from his farm faim As a n rule the farmers only source of income is through his hrs farm The grain and fod fed der crop have a definite and fairly con constant constant stant slant market value By feeding these crops to good cows and adding a tain tabt amount of labor which probably rob bl could sot t find Hod any other outlet the returns s from the farm may be mate increased To illustrate acre of grain gain pound pounds acre of lucern two and tons and of an acre of pas pea pasture pasture ture tune will support a cow for a year Mr If these the e crops were turned directly into cash not more than 23 to 25 would be realized A good cow on this feed I should produce O 2 pounds of butter a I year worth at 10 cents per pound 40 I I I The skim milk would be worth i 5 to 5 G and the calf caIr 5 more or a total of 50 from 23 3 to 25 worth of ot feed In other I words the dalry dairy business offers to the i i farmer r the opportunity of doubling the i returns from his farm I i Again the farmer who depend depends solely solf ly upon the returns from his grain and J nations In Utah agriculture w would m Finally I ask my readers ders to t Nil f ully the weigh tare rare re advantages es above outlined and not to hastily Wy decide work against 3 a line pf that has so much to offer toward the of the farm J farmer m aud a of the |