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Show ADVANTAGES OF DAIRY FARMING I J Tho advantages of dairy farming are bo many, too profits to bo derived deriv-ed nrfi so great, and tho future of this branch of farming Is so full of promise, that tho young peoplo who contemplate farming cannot do better bet-ter than tako up dairying, and tho old peoplo who have had, a struggle to make both ends meet, should turn to tho dairy cow as a means of salvation. sal-vation. Ono of tho first advantages Is tho fact that dairying brings In a constant con-stant lncomo every day In tho year or ovory week In tho year and tho farmer can depend upon It. Second, dalrlng odors a source of constant employment In contrast to other branches of farming wherein a man has certain busy seasons and certain times of enforced Idleness. Tho dairyman has hla cortaln work to do each day. Tho employment Is not only constant but It Is remunerative. remun-erative. Third, dairying offers excellent opportunities op-portunities for tho oxorclso of skill and brain. Tho building up of profitable prof-itable dairy herds, tho scientific feeding feed-ing to obtnln tho greatest quantities of milk or butterfat, tho most profitable profit-able handling of tho product; all of these tax a man's Ingenuity and afford af-ford him amplo opportunity to display dis-play his business ability. Fourth, dairy farming takes loss fertility from tho soil than any other kind of farming. In selling $1000 worth of wheat, thero will go with It S240 worth of fertility; In $f,000 worth of beef, $85; in $1,000 worth of pork, $C0; In $1,000 worth of hors-ce, hors-ce, $35; and In $1,000 worth of but-ter, but-ter, only $1.25 worth of fertility. It will bo seen that butter carries away practically no fertility. Separating milk on tho farm gives the sklmmllk directly bnck to tho live stock, nnd through them back to tho soil, thus increasing tho fertility and multiplying multiply-ing tho salablo products of tho farm. Fifth, tho dairy products nro easily eas-ily marketed, becauso they nro In re-alltf re-alltf condensed products. Tho dairy man actually condenses tho tons of farm crops produced on tho farm Into In-to compact products, cream and butter, but-ter, which aro easily portable. Sixth, no kind Pt farm -work Is bet-ter bet-ter suited to women and chlldron than dairying. The can tako an actlvo part and it Is not tho old time bacl.breaklng, discouraging drudgory which wo havo always associated with farming. Seventh, dairying Is ono of tho most progresslvo branches of farming It Is only within recent years that tho cream separator, tho Babcock test, and other Improvements havo been given the dairyman. Wo might say that dairying Ja still In Us infancy. in-fancy. If this industry gave us last year products to tho value of nearly $00,000,000 when tho cows produced an avcrago of only 3500 pounds of milk annually It Is reasonable to assume as-sume that the futuro will witness a development which should practically practical-ly double tho value of dairy products. Eighth, dairying pay3 as good prof-Its prof-Its and in most instances oven better profits than any other branch of farming. This In Itself should In-duco In-duco farmers to tako It up moro extensively. ex-tensively. Tho Golden Stream. I. H. C. Jft,tf ss sssssi |
