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Show J. ... GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR 4- DAIRYING IN THE WEST. It is no doubt a matter of general observation that the creamery inter ests and creamery conditions arc being be-ing noticed much more in the west , today than perhaps ever have been ) before. The questions of test, but- f tor fat, dairy breeds, proper ifccding, proper care, milking machines, and separators, arc all coming in for a vcru great deal of consideration from thefarmer and dairyman. The com-Uarativc com-Uarativc value of crops, soil fertility, and the value of cows on cheap or expensive land; why the dairy interests inter-ests arc most valuable in countries where land is most expensive, the foolishness of usin a beef cow for . butter making, and many other in- U.csting phases of this great dairy question arc .being agitated by the people of thc West to tan extent never before known. Of course these questions have appealed more to the cow owner than perhaps to any one else unless it be the man of small means who has to buy his but- jfc"' . tcr at the price which has prevailed for the last five or six years. , " ' The reason for all this awakened interest is found in the fact that the West is rapidly taking its place among the more populated districts, and the real resources of the country coun-try arc being discovered. It has been thot by many that the arid states could not well sustain many more people, but in the light of the establishment estab-lishment of so many industries in the last few years, it is not at all an exaggerated statement to say that what was once a barren waste is susceptible of such cultivation and development that it may support and make happy more than ten times the people it contains today, and wc are just waking up to the fact that the dairy cow plays an important .part in all - this advancement. The possibilities of intensive farming farm-ing rather than the "skinning of the soil" arc coming to our notice. The question of increasing the fertility of the farm is being recognized as an important factor' in successful farming farm-ing and) a campaign of education, a wave of intellectual development, is sweeping over the people of the West. Wc arc coming to realize that it is just as easy and in a majority of cases easier to do things right than to do them wrong, and the increased benefit and added pleasure in doing them the right way arc being more and more experienced so that scientific scien-tific methods of handling cows and orchards and gardens and farms arc not so much sneered at as they used to be. Hundreds of people arc taking tak-ing advantage of the opportunities that arc presented and arc supplying themselves with good poultry and dairy magazines and bulletins of all kinds, which arc so abundant and ch ap as to be had for the simple asking. There is perhaps no better source of splendid' information to be obtained upon almost any line of agricultural pursuit than the series of "Farmers' Bulletins," issued by the U. S. Government from its Agricultural Agri-cultural Department. If you arc at all interested in improving your condition con-dition and in knowing and obtaining the best in your line, don't wait another an-other day, but send for one or more of these valuable books. Get and keep abreast of the times. Make your farm and your life worth all that they can be. Lift up your eyes to the glory of an existence in this splendid land of ours, and you will findl that life is worth living,, if, you live it. OPTIMIST. |