The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-15
DON'T TRUST TO LUCK.

DON'T TRUST TO LUCK.
Success in dairyng cannot be OBJ
tanned by "trusting to luck" A ''trust"
is defined by bright Westerner as a
false light thai has shipwrecked more
men than all the corporate trusts since
the foundation of the world" There
is no luck in dairying. Success has
always come, and always will, by
thoughtful, studious attention to the in
dustry, and an attempt to provide the
most and the best at the smallest eX
pense. To this end the dairyman must
take cognizance of the following lead
ing ideas-not wholly new, but all to
be more generally adopted:
l. A dairyman in love with his bust
ness; determined to stay by it and be
ever progressive.
2. A dairy COW fitted for special
purpose.
3. A dividing up of the industry
into three Observation-Disclosures diaries,
factory milk and city supplies.
4. The adoption of the milk and
cream test for each dairy, and pay a
dividend by the per cent of solids in
milk, and not by the weight of the
water in which they float.
5. Abundant and suitable foods for
the cows, home grown as nearly as pos-
sible, and not adapted to feeding of
steers whether male or female).
6. Barn and stables made for diaries
and winter comfort-not modelled after
summer pavilion-and so arranged
that economy can be practiced in every
way.
7. Having a definite knowledge of
what you want, what is required of you,
and above all, market judgment and
tact to cater to and please that market.
These propositions, you will see, are
not new, nor very strange, and are pos
sibly reiterations, but l am Methodist
enough to understand that one class-
meeting does not greatly differ from
another. Love feasts are duplicates;
still, in the repetition of experience,
hopes and fears, and appeals for more
faith-these good, oft-repeated puc-
strength.
COMPETITION.
To obtain successful results in the
future, we must find out whether we
are being injured 80 much by competi-
ton as by our own failure to compre-
bend and push to its limit the pre-
ductive quality of our diaries.
The man with 275 pounds-of- butter
COW or q 5000 pounds-of milk factory
COW, fed on the now demonstrated best
and cheapest foods, is not. finding hard
competition. 1t is the man with the
common cow, varying pasture feed and
we'll ventilated barn, with hay ration
for the winter, that is ground between
the neither milestone of Western prod
uce and that of his more progressive
neighbor To say that the dairy does
not pay is suggestive of practice that
smacks of tradition and prejudice. The
successful dairyman cannot be an OBJ
structionitt and say that the best in
struction of to-day is not as valuable as
common sense. The man who, years
ago, learned all about dairying and
discards all recent Investigations, is not
safe advisor. This man, in his day,
has objected to warm barns because
they made the COWS tender; would not
own we'll bred cows, as they were
easily susceptible to disease; pro-
nounced against succulent winter food,
as it was "agin nature"; that COWS
kept in stable continuously fifteen
weeks would die for want of exercise !;
declared as nonsensical the idea that all
milk was not alike valuable for butter
and cheese making; has issued his proc
lamation against granulated butter,
because it would not keep; that the
market won't buy sweet cream butter;
that the extractor will never work, and
finally, Brother Jasper was right: "The
sun he do move"
MUST BE A DAIRY STUDENT.
I would have this successful dairy
man not only in love with his vocation,
but q student who reads widely and