The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-03-26
Dairy Farm Produces
Immediate Returns


II u the rule that the most prosper.
ous agricultural sections IN the middle
and eastern states are the dairy fArm-
Ing sections. No other product Of the
soil pays on the average a. well -
butter and cheese. and no other
product brings id the steady cash In
come every month In the year as milk.
Farming-Dairy farming and cattle
feeding today is almost the only profit
able line OF business left to the farmer
in nearly every part OF the country.
Farms Return Profits.
In the country In which the writer
lived in former years. whole commun-
tiles OF rich dairy farmers can be
pointed to- who. ten or twelve years
ago, not only did not, but could not
| own . herd Of COWS; and the greatest
things that grew on their farms were
mortgages. Prosperity in the com
munities to which refer was brought
about by dairy farming.
Second-Butter and cheese Is con.
densed produc'. Nothing can be made
or grown on the farm which brings
as much per pound. The dairy farm.
er can condense tons of fodder and
crops grown on the farm into dairy and
meat products and send them to
market in compact and portable form.
Third-Butter and cheese are a fin
| ished product. They are made ready
for the consumer either in the private
dairy or local factory. Much that IL
produced upon the farm is raw ma.
te-ial, and must be manufactured or
otherwise prepared for use after leav-
ing the farLl.
Fourth-Dairy farming brings in a
constant income. The man who sells
crops of any kind has to wait until he
can market his product, once year.
There is little satisfaction in this. 1t
Is unbusiness-like to go without cash
fifty-one weeks and then have money
come in once year. The dairy farm.
er has an income nearly fifty.two
weeks in the year.
Bring Immediate Return.
Fifth-Dairy farming gives constant
remunerative employment. The grain
or potato grower must spend large
part of the year In enforced or de.
moralizing idleness, but the dairy
! farmer finds profitable work through.
out the year, and his work is most
profitable in the winter time.
Sixth-On the dairy farm the work
is better divided. The grain harvest
| comes so close to haying time that II
often gets mixed up with it to the
detriment of both; but where corn Is
grown and put into tn silo for dairy
feed and not SO much or no grain
raised, the harvests are several weeks
apart. Then, in the winter dairy farm
Ing there is let-up on the fran. while
the dairy needs the most work when
other farm work is highest.
Seventh-Skill and brain work get
| better pay in dairy farming than any
other branch Of farming. MIX from
tested cows and sanitary cans and
barns IL worth more money to the
producer; then why not clean up and
get in line, before the state inspector
compels you to, as the law Of the state
requires you to be sanitary. It is in
human to sell anything that is not
pure and clean. Purity and cleanli.
ness are the first law Of God. To pro.
duce fine dairy products requires
something besides hard work. The
dairy farmer must have knowledge
and skill and exercise great care.
These are required in breeding and
| feeding dairy COWS, and in handling
dairy products. And the care be.
slowed, and the skill exercised, get
pay in cash as they do in no other
branch of farming.
Lots Of Room at Top.
Eighth-There is more room at the
top, greater opportunity to improve
than in any other work. Cows produce
from 300 to 700 pounds of butter per
year, and butter sells from twenty-five
| to forty-five cents per pound. Nc
other branch of agriculture shows any.
thing like this, or gives such chance
to rise.
Ninth-Take the country through,
there is no kind Of farming work 80
| well suited to women as dairy farm.
| ing
Tenth-Dairy farming leads to
thoughtfulness for the comfort Of ami
mails and thus tends to morality
There is something demoralizins
about horses. Men who work In horse
stables, are rough, as rule. but COWS
| have an opposite influence. To do her
best the COW must be made az com.
Portable as possible in every way. She
will tolerate no neglect or cruelty
She is a teacher of gentleness and
kindness
| Eleventh--Dairy farming is the most
progressive branch of farming. Think
of the changes for the better that the
last five years have brought.
Dairy Pays Well.
Twelfth-Dairy farming pays better
than any other branch of farming,
both actually and prospectively. Dairy
farm products are as high in most
markets, or little higher, than they
have been for several years. There is
no business which holds out more in.