Show keeping records accords on tho aarm Y tho the 1311 bureau reau of animal industry has published a very valuable book g tying giving records of dairy cows in the united states stales this publication contains valuable information and excellent halftone illustrations of record cows of the country it urges dairymen to adopt better business methods on the farm a complete system of bookkeeping whereby definite knowledge knowl edKe of the sources of profit all and d loss may be ascertained in no department connected with the farm Is 13 there more need for absolute data than in the dairy while village merchants and grocers tor for example average about alike in their knowledge know ledga of their businesses their prices and profits being nearly equal the records show that there are progressive gres sive and unprogressive dairymen one making a good profit while his next door neighbor with the same soli soil and malliet may ba losing money the difference in their profits therefore must bo be accounted for largely by the dif difference ferenec in the intelligence put into their business E experts of tho the department ment of agriculture believe that ont one fourth of the cows in the entire country kept for milk do not pay par for the cost of keeping andl and nearly one fourth moro more fall to yield an annual profit th the v object of the book issued by the bureau Is to show dal dairymen the importance of keeping records completo complete enough so eo that it will to bo possible to avoid the handling of unprofitable animals and to bring the dairy industry of the country up ta allying basis |