The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-08-07
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DAIRY DRAWBACKS.

An Industry Requiring Perpetual Attsn-
tiOn and Great Intellixoncc.
Dairying is an industry that requires
perpetual attention, and therefore 1t Is
'distasteful to many farmers. A field Of
growing grain or dry stock in the pas
.ture develops into wealth under general
human oversight, while cows must be
,milked at least twice day. One Of
the greatest stock fanciers in the dairy
region in which the writer resides keeps
barely enough milk animals to supply
his table with dairy necessities. He
has dread OF milking and It's combining
exactions. He can see beauty in prize
COW, bu. does not care to become her At
tendant
We have understood that in grain
growing sections OF the West, where
,dairying has lately been introduced,
that there exists on the part Of hired
help an antipathy to regular milking.
We have seen this tendency verified
both East and West, and know Of no
remedy, except the cultivation Of
more broad view Of dairying as pleas
ant and lucrative art. No man can be
truly successful unless he is in love
with his profession, and II you embrace
dairying do justice by it. Even il milk
ing does come twice day, Sundays In
cluded. the chore can be shorn Of disa-
greeable features by the possession Of
golden cows and convenient stable IA
cilities. Aim to get certain amount
of milk from . few cows instead Of from
. great many; or, in other words, aim
high and strive to reach the mark.
When you feel that your business 10
paying you better than any thing else
you could follow, you will cease to con-
slider its exactions and glory in its vir-
tues
One Of the most disheartening th'ngs
to dampen the ardor Of good dairyman
is to have tho price of milk, butter or
cheese creep down towards zero while
his main financial dependence is
wrapped up in a herd Of cows. When
placed in such straits our advice il
Don't give up the ship" The dairy
barge is as reliable q vessel - you could
liable to extreme market fluctuations
The character Of your management
course will controllingly govern the
character of your espoused vocation.
Thus butter and cheese are not generally
reduced in price simultaneously. but
when one goes up the other is down.
This is not always the case, though tbs
often SO.
A shrewd dairyman who Is his
own manufacturer-and there are many
OF them-should be amply prepared to
take advantage Of such possible con tin.
gencies by change Of base. Now. II
you are ma xing cheese. and butter hap.
pens to go up. with possibility Of stay.
ing there, don't 60 to skimming your
milk and keep both products along, for
by SO doing you deal q staggering blow
to good cheese-making. You yourself
may not feel the immediate effects Of
the cheat. for as SKINNED cheese is sold
it is nothing but fraud and cheat to
the consumer, but by adding your mite
to cheese deterioration you lend assist
ance to general dabasement
Make full-stock cheese and full-stoGk
butter, or make none at all. Inferior
dairy goods must go. Tho time Is ap-
preaching when they will not he toler.
ated, and it is far better for producers
and manufacturers to act as volunteers
in the matter than to be forced into line
by the unfiinching tide Of improvement.
Brethren, what think you?-(ieo. E.
Newell in Prairie Farmer.