Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-22
A TALK WITH DAlRYMEN.
Some Salient Points Well worth Consid.
ering,

some salient Points Well worth C0nsld.
ering,
1t is a comparatively easy matter to
preach to the dairymen of the country
the details of dairy reformation, but it
is hard job to bulge some of them in.
to practeihg the truths that their ears
drink In.
Habit is almost part of mans na.
ture, and 1t takes more than an ordi-
nary effort to throw off the bonds Of
usage and custom. TO illustrate, /
have seen men 60 to farmers insti-
tute and listen most carefully to the
practical addresses there delivered, and
then go home and leave cattle out OF
doors on freezing winters night, and
milk the cows without cleaning the
dung from their udders. They doubt-
less appreciated the good advice of the
speaker at the time, but habit was the
horny armor that prevented an impres.
sion deep enough for conviction. Habit,
usage and custom are the most
difficult barriers in the way of dairy
reform that know Of Progress must
needs sit down baked before them.
Patience should be the greatest
trait of dairy educators, for without it
they can accomplish but little. The
man who thinks, and who practically
demonstrates the product of his brain,
to be ultimately successful must not be
impatient if people do not at once take
kindly to his ideas. In one sense the
agricultural problem is similar to the
parable of the sower" where some
seed fell on stony ground, and some on
good.
A good dairyman will not be content
with sitting down to a COW and rising
with less than full quantum of milk
To begin with, it takes too much time
to travel from one animal to- another to
secure twelve quarts of milk. 1t aggra
Yates thrifty dairymau to do 1t, wher
he is confident that the physical ma
chinery above the teats is capable OF
coming down with big yield of the
lacteal stuff. After his aggravation is
over he bestirs himself to increase the
yield, and with dairyman thus
thoroughly aroused we have never
yet known failure. What sim
pie little pivot then success in dairy.
ing turns uponl Just manifesto.
tion of the zeal of business enterprise.
The same character that makes a
successful merchant, physician or law
yer, would make money-getting dairy
man. In average dairying don't be sat.
isfed with the milk you are getting,
but make a strenuous effort to secure
an increased yield. Do it in a legiti.
mate way, and through natural chan.
nels Big spurts in the lacteal yield
from over r-crowding of feed, are not to
be desired, for the reaction is damaging
to the physical status of the cow
1t is now conceded that pork to be
healthy and nutritious, must be derived
from pigs that have developed under a
full amount of exercise, and have been
conservatively fed. SO with milk; every
function of the COW should be kept nor.
NAL, and the digestive organs should
not be ciogged by over-feeding, in an
attempt to force the milk yield ahead
of nature. To produce the best results
in milk production am firm in the be.
lief that milch cows should not be de,
prived of all exercise, as by steady con-
finement in the stable through the win,
ter, but they should have moderate
range, and their digestive function.
should be kept active and normal. The
physical system of any animal, man in,
eluded, is at its best for powerful work
when the organs, the tissues and the
muscles, are perfectly healthy, Lei
this be leading principle in your dairy
labors if you would court success -
! George Z Newell, IN Ohio Farmer