Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-09
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DAIRY FARMING.
Its Advantages Over Other Kinds of
H~usbandry.

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A Vermont gentleman of large ex-
p~erience and observation. NJ. j. w.
Newton, draws the folio wing COM
parisons between dairy farming and
other farm pursuits:
The first advantage of dairying is
that it takes less fertility from the
soil than other branches of farming,
sugar making alone excepted.
4 ton of wheat takes 81 ont of n
farm and sells for less than $40. A
ton of butter takes 30 cents worth of
plant food from the farm and sells
for from 500 to 5000. Comment is
needless.
Second-Butter is 4 condensed pro-
duet. Nothing can be made or grown
on the farm which brings as much
per pound. Farms remote from the
market. and Communities far from
railroads can send butter from the
farm or creamery with the least pos
sible expense. The dairyman can con-
dense tons of fodder and crops grown
on the farm into dairy products and
send them to market in compact and
portable form.
Third-Butter is a finished product.
1t is made ready for the
either in the private dairy or local
factory or creamery. The only excep-
ton is where cream is sent long dis
tances to n central station from skim
ming stations scattered over a large
section of country. But this exception
only proves the rule.
Fourth-Dairying brings in a con-
slant income. The an who sells
4 ..nprAG IF onp bind ha. . ~. xx-nit ttnkil
he can market his product once n
year. There is little satisfaction in
this. 1t is unbusiness-like to go with
out cash fifty-one weeks and then
have a lot of money come in ut one
time. The dairyuan has an income
nearly or quite fifty-two weeks in the
year.
Fifth-Dairying gives constant. re-
m~uneratlve employment. The grain
or potato grower must spend a large
part of the year in enforced and de-
moraliZing idleness. but the dairyman
finds profitable work through the year,
and his work is most profitable during
the winter time.
SiNth-On h dairy farm the work
is better divided. The grain harvest
comes so close to haying that it often
gets mixed up with 1t to the detriment
of both: but when corn is grown and
put into soil for dairy feed. and not
50 or no grain raised. the har-
vests are several weeks apart.
Seventh-Skill and brain work get
better pay in dairying than i'll any
other branch Of farming. To produce
fine dairy products requires something
besides hard work. The dairy man
must have knowledge and skill and
exercise great care.
Eighth-There is more room at the
top, greater opportunity to improve
than in any other farm work. Cows
produce from 80 to 500 pounds of but-
ter per ysar, and butter sells from 10
cents to 81 per pound No other branch
of agriculture shows anything like
this, or gives such a chance to rise.
N~inth-Take the country through,
there is no kind Of farm work so suit
ed 10 women as dairying.
Tenth-Dairying leads to thought
~fulness for the comfort of animals
and thus tends to morality. TO do
her best. h ..)w must be made as
comfortable as possible in every way.
She will tolerate no neglect or cruelty.
She is a teacher Of gentleness anu
kindness.
Eleventh-Dairying is the most pro-
lgreSSiye branch Of farming.
Notwithstanding pays better than
any other branch of farming. both
actually and prospectively. Look at
the prices of farm products. Take
wheat or sheep and wool. or horses.
ana see how prices have dropped.