Show SUCCESSFUL FARMING The past fifty years in the life of this country in the development of its scientific and mechanical work has no parallel In mans existence Go to the great centers of commerce behold this immense network of railroads consider all these stupendous mills and machinery ma-chinery and do you wonder that the imagination im-agination of the rising beneration is aroused Do you wonder that these quiet unpretending nonprogressing homes that have stood unmoved these fifty years arc disturbed disquieted finally abandoned 1 No man has the ability to conduct mixed husbandry with a tolerable degree 10t success no ordinary farmer with himself and the help usually kept on our farms has either the physical or the mental ability to succeed by the methods now in practice You are all familiar with the methods by which large manufacturing manu-facturing establishments are conducted Every man has his particular line of work and as he becomes familiar with It the best results are obtained The lines of competition are being drawn tighter and tighter and the farmer who desires to achieve financial success must conduct his business upon a basis approximately somewhat to the principles upon which other industries are conducted The farmer is o a large extent a manufacturer man-ufacturer but ho must not attempt the manufacturing of too many kinds of goods at the came time He has to deal with animal and yegitable life with all the mysteries that enter into the composition compo-sition of the soil the action of light and heat the eveivarying seasonsIn fact he is in natures marvelous laboratory surrounded by forces and mysteries in a measure beyond the comprehension of ordinary moralists Imagine a farmer with 10000 invested in a well regulated farm with Hocks and herds fruits vegetables veget-ables and grasses He is standing in the midst of all these ministering t their various needs and conditions and out of all this wonderful mechanism he iso is-o produce the food to support him Turn now to the 10000 manufacturer perhaps engaged In making doors and sash carriages or some line of goods Which of these two men needs the most brain power to be successful If it is all one man Is capable of to follow one profession or one line of work in the mechanical world what think you of the farmer who attempts to master ail kinds of work involved in mixed arming 1 S S When we contemplate the tendency of he times wr can arrive at no other conclusion con-clusion than that the future farmer must follow out some line of work to its greatest perfection Market gardening asa as-a specialty has become a profitable Industry In-dustry The ordinary farmer cannot compete and shbuld not raise more than enough for home consumption The raising of milk can only be successful suc-cessful as one adapts his crops to this line select animals that are best adapted j j to the production of milk and feeds so i as to obtain the best results at the least j cost I is easy to breed and sp manage j a dairy as to produce from 200 to 257 I pounds of butter annually The difference betwen a cow hat produces less than i 100 pounds of butter and one that produces pro-duces 225 pounds is the difference between be-tween failure and success But the difference dif-ference in value between 100 pounds of Inferior butter and 225 pounds of a superior su-perior article carries the comparison a great way further Such fearful odds exist in no other industry in-dustry and it is a shame and a disgrace to the farmer that when so much knowledge can be obtained concerning a single branch of his labor he will allow such a discrepancy to exlstJ r Connor Con-nor before the Vermont Dairymans association as-sociation |