The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-11-07
Can DairYing BE Recommended.

do danger from frost.
Can Dairying BE Recommended,
A correspondent asks our candid
opinion on daIrying, and whether
we would advise him to engage in it.
1t is a difficult matter to advise any
course or employment to persons
with whom we nro intimately nc
quainted-although we might know
lust what 1rc would do if similarly
situated but still more difficult to
make "a recommendation when we
know nothing of the person to
whom it is giyen-nothing about his
habits and disposition, experience,
his capacity to learn, capital, the
taste of himself aud family, AID the
circumstances by which he is STR
rounded. Under such u state OF
affairs, it would be absurd tC offer
any advice in the premises, no mat
ter how urgently solicited.
Our opinion Of the dairy business
is IL very high one. When farms
and farmers are adapted to it, we
regard it as one of the most indie
pendent and lucrative departments
Of agriculture ia which any II can
engage. The domestic demand
for dairy products is yet in its
infancy, and is increasing with great
rapidity, while American dairy pro-
ducts nre steadily and surely win
ming their way IN foreign markets.
And for this reason, rs we have often
sAid, we do not a]pprehend the exist
ence of any danger TINT the dairy
business i'll this country AN be over
cons, within the Ii lifetime, at least,
OF any one who reads this paragraph.
WITH embarrassing and the produc-
tion of pork and beef, there is dan
ger that the production will at times
be so great us to vety materially
interfere with their profits. The
dairy interest, however, is on such
an enduring foundation, that where
all the circumstances afe favorable,
it can be adopted with the utmost
confidence. All farms, ho-ever, are
not suited to i. Thor, Shout be
good pastures, aifording IL succession
Of crosses, and there should be
water good in quality as well as in
supply. The Northern States we
are inc ined to think best suited to
this industry, on account of the
hea' ed term being shorter but it
may ,proitably conducted IN many
Of the Southern States, especially in
those portions bordering upon the
mountain ranges.
We would not advise any mt to
engage in the dairy business with
tho expectation of getting rich sud
denly. And any one who does, will
mos assuredly find himself mis-
tlken. It's profits are sure,
but they are neither sudden nor
great They enrich the ~dairyman
slowly and surely, in proportion 10
his INTEL !ence, industry and capital,
but afford but IL meagre reward for
those gentlemen who are continually
shifting from one thing to another
going into one thing this year,
and out Of It into something else
II, xt year. People do not want to
engag, in dairyinG until they can
make up their minds that the time
has come to dAchOr somewhere, aud
that the business is to be maize,
COM ar4iively, at least, a perman.
ency.
Neither should any II engage in
it with the idea tha5 they are going
to have q good easy time; for il is II
business which has very little non-
sense or boy ping aboat it Ii is
not n business Whicn, IN our opin
ion, involves an unusual amount Of
excessive labor, but it certainly is Il
business which requires close atten-
lipu ull lllb Illllt. lIt COWS HlUSL
be MIXED and attended TO ut GER
tain times, and the milk must be
cared for NJ orca, and each nignt
must see each day s work completed.
bee use nothing can be put eff until
tomorrow. 1t is Il business to
which system 10 everything, aud the
want of system p%erfect failure. In
the hands of careful and industrious
people, there IS no branch # agri-
culture which can be made more
pleasant or productive; but in the
hands of lazy and shiftloss persons,
there is no other agricultural pur.
suit likely to prove so unsatislac-
tory.
1t is Il business which broadens
the views and clegat"s the intelli.
gence of Mi who are engaged in it.
Because success depends in n larger
degree upon intelligence than upon
mere muscle, and there is present,
ell the time, the Strongest possible
stimulus FIR Improvement, and the
dalryman insensible but surely, be-
comes q student Country GenAe-
man.