The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-16
YOUNG DAlRYMEN.

Our boys are all the time arriving ut
the state Of manhood and taking their
places in the line of active. responsible
workers. The fathers are dropping by
the way-side and the sons are slipping
into their places. Hence there is fresh
blood being constantly Infused into
every industry, and the beginners are
necessarily very large class. OF
course the dairy has its share of begin
ners. and what profitable advice may
we give to tkis large number of PEG
pie? In the first place we woul
earnestly suggest that there is danger
of the Young man thinking that because
he was born and bred on farm. he is
not beginner but an old hand at the
business. In a measure that may be
true, and it NAV be far from being true.
There is many n young man who.
though he has always been accustomed
to cows and to the dairy. is, to use
a common expression. inexpressibly
green i'm the dairy business. In other
words he knows nothing about the i'm
proved methods of dairying. He has
been accustomed to old methods and
is fixed in the path that his father and
mother trod before him. But such
methods and such paths will not answer
in these days of progress. The man
who adopts the improved methods will
make money while the man who does
not will lose money, and the loss may be
either absolute or comparative. In
either case there is loss. The articles
that so frequently appear in the press
urging beginners to select good cows
and make complete preparations in
other directions for the profitable con-
duct of the dairy are. in a sense. useless.
The place to begin to give advice to
the young dairyman is with his eyes
and his ears. Tell him to look and
listen; to read and investigate; to get
out of himself his great admiration for
the ways of father and mother. simply
for the reason that they are their ways.
and to break loose from his prcjudices.
If he can be induced to do these things,
he will soon get the best cows without
being told to get them. and he will
get every thing else he needs for sue
cessful dairying.
But what our young people need
more than any thing else in the way of
advice is to advise them to be perfectly
honest in the management of the dairy.
This advice is necessary. because the
temptations to dishonesty devised by
selfish and unprincipled men. and scat
tered broadcast over this country, are
perfectly devilish. The oleomargarine
and butterine rascals have done and
are doing their best to poison the
morality Of every man and woman who
makes butter in this country. They
do not meet with much success among
those who are old enough to know the
ways of the world and the worth of
moral character. But our young peo-
pie may be more easily influenced. In
the thoughtlessness Of youth it would
not be strange if some of them be al
lured by the brilliant and fascinating
temptation set before them. They
would not intend to be dishonest, for
the bogus butter tempter elOquently
tells how perfectly honest it is to fol-
low him and be dishonest. Now we
wish briefly to say to the young dairy
man that As he values good character,
his own happiness and his ultimate
prosperity, he does not want to NEEDLE
with these authorizations. Make straight
goods. Sell pure milk, or butter, or
cheese. and if every young dairyman
will do that the work of securing pure
dairy products will be assured, for the
young people will soon be those upon
whom the responsibility ofthe present
will entirely rest, and it is only matter
of time when the city bogus butter fac
tories will be closed in compliance with
the demands of decency and honesty and
in the interests Of both the producer
and the Western Rural