Show should dairymen read dairy papers of course that depends ion in whether the papers in question ale aie instructive whether they are edited and contributed to by men who know the ins his and outs cuts of the dairy business thoroughly in writing us recently mr J D sprague manager of ons one of the finest dairy farms farms in rhode island says it is astonishing to me ri e S to 0 o hear farmers sneer at farm pa pers aera and at book boob farming e etc tc ind and ther then go on in the old ruts following allowing 0 the practice long ago ag 0 forsaken by their more progressive neighbors they seem to think that business mn men do not take papers nor study their own business but I 1 know better my father was a business man in new york city and I 1 was intended for a business life but bat I 1 think I 1 was cut over for a farmer I 1 aled to work in a large dry goods commission house and every morning the commee cial bulletin and the journal of commerce were delivered and studied by members of the firm doctors have papers and mag ma gaines aines innumerable and are obliged to study to keep abreast of the times or they will soon lose loe their practice so d do dentists machinists machinist electricians ians true the farmers farry or very many of them think they know well how to farm and will not pay two cents a week for a pappy that would pay them dollars for every cent expended 1 hoard foard s dairyman |