The Progress., 1894-01-13

No man can thoroughly succeed at
any business unless he is hopeful of
the future. Particularly is this true
OF farming and 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
l know of for this bad ailment is
work-energetic work So, when a
COW dies OF milk fever" or you lose
so on the sale of lot of butter, 1t
is the poorest policy in the world to
get disheartened over it. BY so do
ing you may take so much less inter
est in your daily routine Of duties as
to lose two more cows, or $50 on the
next butter sale.
Bad luck is rot always avOidable
in the dairy, but succession of bad
luck generally is, and if a dairyman
meets with many rcverses he should
inquire of his own mind if he is not
despOnsible for some of them. When
dairy misfortunes come to you, work
20 retrieve them. whether you feel
like it or not. As q 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 culti-
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 mental dry
rot. 1t means a dilapidated barn.
dilapidated COWS and blue milk.
Apathy will not lift farm mort
gage. or build a new house, but
energy and persistent work will. /
knew a dairyman once who had let
one misfortune hatten out all of his
ambition, and he fell into state of
apathy. Everything on the farm
needed new life infused into it, from
ton of hay to the acre to the mongrel
COWS that did not pay for their 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 SO of "pin
money" laid by, and this she expend-
ed for a newborn Jersey heifer 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 u"ch
more likely looking than this new
conner"
1t was three years before the lady
could show her husband that she
had not made a mistake in her pur-
chase. Then the puny calf had
grown to be a milch COW and was
producing more butter alone than
any other two cows in his dairy.
What was more, the wife wisely kept
the butter made from her COW sepa-
rate from that produced from the
common herd, and under the name
OF Jersey" sold it for top price.
Her jerseys first calf was male,
but she traded it for a heifer, and
soon she owned two, three, five COWS,
all profitable animals. Her husband
caught the spirit of progress that
she had stirred up on his farm and
enlarged the business that she had
created.
1t was better to have emulated the
energy of his wife's example than
not to have been aroused at all. In
dustry will drive dull care away. for
no one has time to brood over i'll
luck while busily engaged in repair
ing its effect
Threshing Navy Beans.