Show = rROIIl > I7AIRVIXG At an institute held in Michigan a dairyman dai-ryman set forth the following good reason rea-son why farmers should follow the calling 1 That it is the business upon the farm that permits the most absolute control over conditions of production hence the most profitable I 2 It is the highest art of farming because be-cause it combines all other lines and gives I greater opportunity for executing and manufacturing skill I G It is most free from irresponsible and destructive competition by necessity of its character and hy the personal equation equa-tion of the individual producer 4 It is a moral exact line of production permitting gross receipts to be farecast Kith greater exactness hence the greater possibilities of Increasing net receipts either I ei-ther by lowering expenses or increasing I volume of product 5 It permits the employment of labor at a season of the year when farm labor is cheapest 1C winter dairying Is followed 6 Of all products sold from the farm butter takes the least fertility and restores re-stores the greatest amount to the farm and it is well known that the most fertile sections of the country are where butter farming is followed These points could be greatly enlarged upon but some people like facts stated In a nutshell To my mind one of the most fetching features of dairying is omitted here which is the fact that the dairy business busi-ness is a cash business from start to finish fin-ish There is always cash on hand and no such thing as mortgaging thr crop inn in-n 1ance which is only discounting the sum of your returns in the end When ifaimers learn to buy and sell for cash they have put themselves on a business footing and learned to enjoy the liberty of thE brains that they are possessed of and not sold their birthright to a commission merchant a pernicious practice that has held the farmers In bondage and robbed them of a sustained and selfiespectlng libertyL S Hardin |