The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-11-24
Why Dairying is a Good Business
he Regular Cash Income Which it Affords Makes
it the Most Desirable Of all Branches of Farm Work

The average farmer who keeps
only few cows and many who call
,bemselves dairymen do not always
appreciate fully the dairying itself.
They fail to understand that a cash
income is of much value to them.
They do not have money tied up
long before they get it back again,
and the average farmer hasn't much
money to tie up. Now, of course,
every crop we grow on the farm is
B important. Some of them are sold
for cash; we could say that potato
growing is a cash business. The
! fruit business is cash business.
They are, in sense, cash business
esas compared with the same kind
Of farming years ago. Then many
Of the crops grown on the farm
could not he sold for cash but had
j to be exchanged for other products
which the farmer needed; but since
j then everything has changed and
] now the crops we grow are turned
! into cash and we have to pay cash
! for that which we buy. This is a
decided improvement. Yet in the
potato crop we put our money into
the investment of the labora9dyseed
! at planting time, the preparation Of
! the ground in caring for the crop
during the entire season and we do
not get penny in return till after
the crop is harvested. There are
several months that we have our
money tied up and do not realize it.
In the case of wheat, for instance,
there is the entire year before we
get anything from our investment,
/ and so it is with other crops and
all other branches of farming, ex-
cept dairying, which, so far as |
know, is a single exception in the
farming business. We sell eggs for
cash and get returns from our in
vestment regularly and the same
way with dairying. The feed bought
of the farm is soon turned into cash
again, in one or two weeks at least,
aand in many instances every few
8 days we get cash for the dairy pro-
Y ducts. In this way one can do bust
ness with more limited capital
than where he has to waita period Of
months before he gets something in
return for his investment, and fol
the average farmer who hasn't very
much money to nnakean investment
this is an important thing.
Now, dairying is not ooly a cash
business but it brings in cash in
come the year through, every week
in the year cash returns are due
If dairymen take little pains in
breeding the COWS and have then
fresben at the proper time they car
so arrange it that they will have
regular incomes coming in each
month or each week of the year
This is a very important factor be
cause farmers need cash incomes
Just as much as any"other business
man, and it is much better to have
this uniform cash income coming
throughout the entire year than il
is to be engaged in kind of bust.
which brings in the money once OF
twice a year. One fixes expenses
according to his income and is not
so liable to be extravagant and make
ventures which sometimes prove
disastrous.
Now dairying not only brings.in a
Uniform cash income but the bust
ness of dairying is reliable. Farm
ers can depend upon it. With a
good herd of COWS upon a farm,
properly equipped for handling
them and with an owner who knows
how to do it, one can depend upon
the income. If one raised winter
wheat from which he derives his
income everyone knows that be is
liable to have poor crop and con-
sequently his income will be greatly
cut down. In the fruit business
Which some wears is very profitable