The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-10

the care bestow we'd and the skill exer-
cised gets pay in hard cash as they do
in no other branch Of farming.
Eighth There is more room at the
top, greater opportunity to improve
than in any other farm work. Cows
produce from $50 to 500 pounds of but
ter per year, and butter sells from ten
cents to one dollar per pound. No other
branch Of agriculture shows anything
like this, or gives such a chance to
rise.
ninth. Take the country through,
there ia no kind of farm work 80 well
suited to women as dairying.
tenth. DAirying leads to thought
fulness for the comfort of animals and
thus tends to morality. There is some
thing emoralizing about horses. Men
who work in horse stables are rough,
as q rule, but COWS have an opposite
Influence. To do her best, the COW
must be made as comfortable as pos
sible in every way. She will tolerate
no neglect or cruelty. She is a teacher
of g%entleness and kindness.
Eleventh. Dairy ing is the most pro-
gressIve branch of farming. Think of
the changes for the better that five
years have brought, the Babcock test,
the improvement in separators, etc.
Twelfth. Dairying pays better than
any other branch of farming, both
actually and prospectively. Look at
che prices of farm products. Take
wheat o. sheep and wool or horses,
and see how prices have dropped, The
prospect is poor for many other prod
ucts, but butter is as high 10 most mar
kets or but a little lower than It has
been for several years
There is no business which holds
out more Inducements to the young
| people on the farm. It is adapted to
a wi Ter area of country than any other
agricultural pursuit. N6xious insects
and funguos diseases CAUSE less injury
TO grass, clover and corn than any
other farm crops, and these three are
che great dairy foods. The future to
skilltul dairyman is full of promise
and hope"
With such facts as these before him,
we think the farmer who is puzzled to
make both ends meet at present, must
g9t down aud do some hard thinking.
One of the first things that strike
many such is that such q profitable
branch Of business must soon be over,
done. II he was in possession of all
the facts, however, he would not think
80. There is a greater untitled demand
for butter to day than there was ten
years ago, and this, Notwithstanding
the fact that butter is higher now than
at that time and many times as much
of it is made The supply grows fast
but the demand grows faster.
Families who formerly used one
pound, now use three in the same
lepgthot time, but those who formerly
ate almost noae now have discovered
that it is a cheaper and better food for
young and old than meat.
The average Quality of butter has
wonderfully improved and the demand
is for the best, and this demand is IN
limited and largely uusupplied.
The fact is right here in a nut shell,
that any farmer who takes up dairy
i1g for a business. and follows it intel
ligently, using the best tools and inn:
plements for his work, will have a
profitable, prosperous, continuing bust
ness SO long as ne may follow it.
Herein are gold dollars lying arouI d
thick, aud the thing to do is to get
right in and get some. Don't wait unIl
another season or another time, for
you won't live forever, and the q Kicker
Y u get to making money the longer
time you will have in which to be
happy and make your wife and boys
and girls happy.
P. n SHARPLEs
West Chester, Pa.