People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
BAOLUcKINTHED DAIRY MEANS
+. BAD MANAGEMENT. ..
Pinck and Common Sense Needed In
! Every Bu'iness-T hreshing Navy Beans
Horse Tslk-POu.try Pickings aud
Household Helps.



No man can thoroughly succeed at
say business unless he is hopeful of
the future. Particularly is this true
OF farming AMI dairying. A dairy
man falls into little bad luck with
his cows or milk or butter. and he
gets dOwnhearted, and has an attack
Of the .'blues.
When he is in this state OF mind
he is apt to make a worse mistake in
some form of his dairy management
than the one that originally led to
his Encouragement.
Now, it is futile to tell a man not
to get discouraged without Offering
some remedy for a cure of the com.
plant The most potent remedy that
| know of for this bad ailment is
interchangeable work. So, when a
COW dies OF milk fever" or you lose
so on the sale OF a lot of butter, 1t
is the poorest policy in the world to
get disheartened over it. By so do
ing you may ta6e so much less inter
est in your daily routine of duties as
to lose two more cows, or $2J on the
next butter sale.
Bad luck is not always avoidable
in the dairy, but a succession Of bad
luck generally is, and if a dairyman
meets with many reverses he should
inquire of his own mind if he is not
responsible for some of them. When
dairy misfortunes come to you, work
to retrieve them. whether you feel
like it or not. AS a result. ambition
will come to you, and You will
eventually prosper, says the Ameri.
can CultivatOr.
The dairyman who has his barns
and stocks insured when fire sweeps
them away has not his good luck to
thank for the insurance, but his good
management By proper business
method he had been enabled to save
something from the wreck to rebuild
again.
Now, ambition will not come to
you spontaneously; you must cult
vate it, and this will bring you
cheerfulness of mind and brighter
prospects. The worst thing that
ever struck a dairy farm is apathy
in the owner. 1t is a mental dry
rot. 1t means a dilapidated barn,
dilapidated cows and blue milk.
Apathy will not lift a farm mort
gage, or build a new house, but
energy and persistent work will.
knew a dairyman once who had LET
one misfortune flatten out all of his
ambition, and he fell into a state of
apathy. Everything on the farm
needed new life infused INFO it, from
the meadow which did not yield a
ton of hay to the acre to the mongrel
cows that did not pay for thek keep.
ing from year to year
This dairyman's wife, under the
impression that a change was needed,
woman like, thought that she would
do something in small way to i'm.
prove matters. She had $40 of "pin
money" laid b., and this she expend.
ed for newborn Jersey heller calf.
Her husband, when he found what
she had done, was shocked at what
he considered such wanton extrava
gance. "Why, he had never got
more than 81 for any calf that he
had ever sold, and they were much
more likely looking than this new
conner" go ..,.. D...
1t was three years before the lady
could show her husband that she
had not made mistake liz her pur
chase. Then the puny calf hac
grown to be mich cow and wa.
producing more butter alone thar
any other .two,cows in his dairy
What was more, the vile wisely KEEP
the butter made from her COW sepa.
rate from that produced from tn,
common herd, and under the nam,
of Jersey" sold it for a top price.
| Her jerseys first calf was male
but she traded it for a heifer, anC
soon she owned two, three, five cows
all profitable animals. Her husband
caught the spirit of progress . tina
she had stirred up on his farm AM
enlarged the business that she had
created.
1t was better to have emulated tn,
energy of his wife's example thar
not to have been aroused at all. In
dustry will drive dull care away, fol
no one has time to brood over i'll
luck while busily engaged in repair
| inc its effect