The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-06
SOME DAIRY ESSENTIALS.
Individual Members Of Herd Should Be
Studied Carefully.

Studied Carefully.
The first essential for the dairymai
Is the careful study Of the individual
cows, milk weighing, feeding and care
This will reduce the number from i
per cent to 50 per cent Then dom
buy any more. We have altogether to-
many COWS now. Breed better, redue
danger from disease by breeding from
strong animals, then keep them resist
ant By continuing such food and care
says q writer In the American Cults
yator. IN parenthesis, let me say tina
IN my judgment, strong resistance, mad
so by the skilled feeder and breeder
the environment Of the animal, will b
more potent factor IN exterminatini
tuberculosis than legislation, tubercuh
and jealous boards Of health all com
bined. And that situation viii not pre-
vail with the present plan Of conduct
ing the dairy business
Then begin a careful study Of coils
and crop growing with the plan Of eithel
growing az the feeds upon the farm o.
growing high-pFieed crops which viii pay
the feed bills. One Of these two method.
must be pursued These methods viii
eliminate the unworthy dairyman and
pua ms in control Of the business, and
then we shall b able upon this new
foundation to fix a price based upor
actual cost of production. Because milb
il a bypFoduct and because byprodncts
bear little or no relation to cost 81
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tunate situation to-day, namely that the
value of milk as fixed by the market
price viii not pay cost Of production
/ mean to say that a charge Of foods
labor and interest upon the investment
upon one side Of the ledger, and the
milk receipts on the other side VIII leave
nine farmers out Of ten in debt This
Is hard indeed TO understand The dairy
COW has paid mortga ges, built houses
educated children and bought some 81
the Injuries Of life, and tie dairy FARM
ers exhibit as few failures rs can be
found IN any agricultural activity.
The returns from milk come peri0di-
eally, teaching a lesson Of rigid economy
and adjustment To expenses not found
elsewhere. The dairyman works more
hours per day than others. In fact Il
II commonly said that 10 hours 4 day
will not run the dairy business success
fully. The dairyman has not only
worked IA to 10 hours daily, but his
family have been forced into business
often at the expense Of their needed edu.
cation, and more, he has been bis own
boolSkeeper. buyer and superintendent
Here Is the footing barred upon cost
If paid for In open market, III days
himself, and at least one-quarter as sup
perhaps d day in every "a
hours by some member Of the family
Now gy's work il not based upon
Ia hours 81 hustling activity with the
mental processes thrown in without re-
cogition Ii IL rather based upon 10
hours daily OF moderate muscular effort
without q trace Of the nervous energy
Of man struggling with the problems
Of debt and family support.
So when an effort is made to charge
an equivalent for labor based upon MAJ
ket value there follows a loss Tar
iii schedules were formed to give ths'
same opportunity to the manufacturer
that the farmer possessed with his free
raw material in the form Of plant food.
We are now facing a readiustment and
a time when the cost Of milk will as
surely be based upon cost Of production
IS the selling value Of iron Is to-day
When that time arrives more money
must be paid for milk, Then you viii
be able to control the environment, and
not till that time Is 1t any wonder that
milk has been filthy when the stable
was primarily fertilizer factory IN
stead of an establishment for the manu-
faetre Of the most delicate and highly
sensitive food knowni