The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-10-15


States there is no trouble for re-
liable up-to.date dairymen secur-
ing good returns for ali their
efforts put into dairying. Their
farms are KEEP, in a high state of
fertility because of the large
amounts of manure returned
regularly to the fields. The man
who sells grain from his farm is
selling the valuable part thereof
by the bushel; the manwho sells
butter from his farm and feeds
the skim milk to his calves and
pigs parts with so little ertility
thereby that the loss is not worth
discussing. Dairying brings in
money every urday, or month
ly at least. One is impelled to
treat his COWS we'll as to feed and
care because there are direct I'M
portant returns for all such
thoughtful attention. There is
no safer, more honorable vocation
in this whole country than that of
dairy farming. One lives with
his animals and enjoys their COM
partnership, and he can carry with
him at all times the satisfaction
that he is not soil robber, but
will leave his estate to his success
sors as rich or richer than it was
when 1t came into his possession.
1t is nfortunate that so many of
our American farmers have no
conscience in regard to soil rob-
berry. Men who would not steal
a pin will without single qualm
of conscience reduce the fertility
of tract of land and leave it in
Impoverished condition to their
children or to some success
sor, never realizing what a crime
they haye committed against
humanity.
The two objections to dairying
are those of securing mixers and
the never-ending round of duties
which follows dairy farming.
Cows must be MIXED twice each
day, seven days in the week and
every week in the year. Our COR
respondent realizes, as does every
dairyman, this burden, and would
shift it if he could. While these
two disagreeable conditions form
the bane of dairying, our cores
pondent should never forget
they are one of the prime factors
in making it the steady money
getting business that it is. If
cows would milk themselves, or
go without milking occasionally
when it was more conve nient to
have them do so, then dairying
would be such an easy vocation,
returns considered, that less
energetic people would drift into
it and the profits would at once
drop to the lowest level at which
any large number of persons
could exc out an existence. Our
correspondent should never for
get this fact in considering his
business.
Our correspondent keeps his
mind upon the fertility of his
land, and in doing this he has ever
in view the handspring of his in
come and the assured factor in
success. This true, he can with
out doubt turn his attention to
beef production and likewise
make a success of that business.
He is certain to grow large crops
ef excellent forage and grain.
Having learned to take care of
cows successfully, he can easily
become the managerof steers and
fattening animals. He will be
less closely tied down in his daily
rounds of duty and can employ a
grade of help which will be salts.
fed to work for him where others
would not as helpers in the dairy.
The same care and patient at,en-
ton to keeping up the fertility of
the land, to watching the individ.
ual needs of each animal, to pro-
viding feed in abundance and to
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