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Show llinta to Dairymen. Build a silo, so that your milk feed shall cost you less. Build it sufficiently sufficient-ly large so you can have ensilage enough to feed in summer and fall when the pasturage dries up. That will keep your cows up to their best flow, so you can havo milk to da business busi-ness with in late fall and winter, when prices of butter are higher. That's good economy. Stop tho expense of bad handling. You must handle a dairy cow not as if sho were a steer, but as a bovine mother. You want to mako money out of her motherhood; then handle her, shelter her, feed her and treat her generally as a mother should bo handlod, sheltered and treated. If you don't know how a mother should bo treated, ask your wife or your mother. Stop this expensive summor dairy- ing keeping cows on expansive pasture pas-ture and getting nothing for the milk just because there are thousands of other men just like you who had rather mills a cow in summnr and tnuko nothing, than to go into wintor dairying and mako a fair profit Give up all these cranky old notions about dairying, and proceed to measure tho business from the dollar standpoint just as any other manufacturer does. Ii costs just as much to support the carcass of a cow that is running you in debt as it does one that is giving you $50 a year profit Not one farmer farm-er in a hundred ever tested his cows to know which wero tho ones that wore beating him ou of house and home." How is he to act if he don't know, and how is ho to know if ho does not put forth Intelligent effort to j know. There is scarcely a dairyman in tho land who is not keeping two cows to do the work of ono. Ask any of tho progressive dairymen you know, and they will tell you that about their first step in cutting down useless expense was to get a better cow. Buy her, breed her, get her nyway you choose, but be sure and get her. |