Show THE DAIRY FARMER The dairyman who depends on his dairy exclusively for everything is not the one who makes the most money writes Austin Aus-tin Goodo in Farm News Every dairyman dairy-man should try to raise enough hay and grain for hia own use and such other products pro-ducts as will be needed by his family A large orchard goes naturally with a dairy because of the value of apples as an occasional oc-casional feed for cows if for no other purpose 1 believe in diversified farming In connection con-nection with dairying If this is followed the fertilizers made on the place can be utilized and put to the best use and more cows can be kept on a given number of acres under an intelligent system of farming farm-ing than can bo supported if the whole placo Is kept for dairying exclusively If a system of cropping > ard soiling Is carried out the product of tho farm will be greatly increased and the dairyman is made somewhat Independent of the course of the markets and if a fall In prices comes ht > is able to tide over the time without feeling that he la losing on every side A good poultry yard can be kept on a dairy farm with profit and whore the work is done promptly and on time there Is always hours to devote to poultry that may profitably be used for this purpose I remember hearing an old dairyman on the Western Reserve of Ohio say that dairying makes men shiftless because by the tim the cows are milked and the milk delivered at the factory there la not time enough to do much Before noon and afternoon after-noon it is not worth while to begin because be-cause tho cows and milk must be looked after before long This was an extreme way of putting the question but from tho looks of a great many dairy farms In that section I have no doubt but that the old man was getting get-ting along toward the truth as far as some dairy farmers are concerned If a regular system of dalrjlng conner ed with growing crops could be followed by all who are in the business the d ilr > I sections of the country would bo more pleasing to the eye and moro prosperous In fact than they now are Thore is no use of trying to deny that a good many dairy farms are not the trimmest and beat kept that may be found I know whereof I speak In this matter for I have seen about as much dairy country as most of men So far as the making of profits goes In the matter of cattle feeding will always remain truo that It Is just as important that the feeder buy right aa that he sell to the best vtage Of late years the tendency has toei to pay prices for feeders feed-ers so high that a profit wag almost out of the question |