The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-01-09
0AIRYiNG FOR THE
AVERAGE FARMER
With Conditions as They are Locally
This Line ofFarming Should Pay.


The average farmer raises crops for
his principle source of income. He
depends upon wheat, oats. corn or other
cereals to pay off the mortgage or to
swell the bank account Did you ever
consider how long it takes such farmer
to get any cash returns for his work?
He must fit his land, SOW or plant his
crop. cultivate the ground, harvest and
thresh the gram before he gets any re-
turns at all. The chances are then that
he must wait on the market before he
can get the price he thinks he should
have for his produce.
We will suppose he is feeding stock.
He must allow the animals to mature,
he must then feed and care for them a
greater part of the year and must then
wait, oftentimes on futtuating market
before he can get price that will war
rent selling, before he gets any returns.
Experience shows that even then he is
apt not to realize as much from them as
he would have gotten from the feed
stuff fed them, if he considers his own
work and worry of any account
With dairying it is different. When a
good market is available cash returns
are received every month. The dairy
COW is continually yielding product and
the market for dairy products, while
varying with different seasons of the
year, is very constant and is at all times
sure. Have you realized as vet that the
average price for butter for the present
year is about % cents? Is that not
enough to insure one Of good income
if he goes into dairying as a side line
and in the right way?
The principal reason why many
farmers have gone into dairying and
quit in disgust is because they have not
gone into it in a business way. They
have figured that dairying means get
ting milk from any old cow This is
not true. Dairying means milking cows
that produce enough product to pay for
their maintenance and then enough more
to make good margin of profit This
is merely Hooking at it as a business
proposition. Some, however. get the
idea that to go into dairying they must
have pure bred dairy animals. This is
not true because many grades produce
as much milk and butterfat as do the
majority of pure bred animals. 1t is,
| however, well known fact that if one
can afford it, he will be more sure of a
good profitable herd if he does have pure
bred animals. The average farmer
does not feel that he can afford such a
herd. Many of the best dairymen today
have only grade animals.
Another reason why many have quit
dairying is because they have had NO
good market for their milk or cream, OF
creamery has not been accessible to
them. Many communities have them
selves been at fault because they have
not properly supported the creamery
which was in their vicinity and in conse-
quence it has ceased to operate If
proper support is given a creamery it
will thrive and will afford the farmers a
reliable market for their product and a
much higher price will be paid than
when only half supported.
Oakland is an ideal location for a
creamery because of its nearness to the
large eastern buttermarkets and be-
cause of the ideal farming country sur
rounding it. If the farmers in its vicin-
ity will go into dairying seriously and
will support their creamery, as they
should, there is no doubt but that more
cash returns will be had from their
farms than ever before.