The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-01-29

ventilation, wash room, cement floor
ing, sealed ceilings and walls to elimi-
nate dust, extra windows for light,
tiles to drain the barnyard, lime to
disinfect. | should say that his house
easily cost $4,000; not that his house
has anything to do with the milk, but
| want to make it clear that he was
not a sub-average failure with
crouch. Also that house was built by
predecessor farmer who made his
money out of dairy products after the
Civil War. At the rate this mans
profits are shrinking from him he
could not build such house in life
time.
The Farmers Side of the Argument
why" he asked, "don't you writ
ers give the farmers side of the ar
gument? We are not all fools. If we
make money at farming, we stay at it.
If we don't, We quit; and any man
with brains demands something more
than mere living out of the capital
investment of $4,000 to $4,000,
which any first-class k-plant must
have lou can talk your head off
about back to- the-land' movements.
or write your head off about aban-
doned farms. 1t isn't a matter of
theory and science at all. Any edu-
Gated practiced farmer can give aces
and SPACES to theorists on this sub
ject The whole question is one of
economics and not hot-air. When we
make money We stick, when we don't
We quit. That's the whole question of
keeping the people on the land. You
go round and get the big farmers, not
the scrubs and DRINKS, to show you
their books on the difference this new
system of buying milk bv butter fats
instead of by quantity means. 1t takes
an average farmer with small capital
at least Is years to work up a pc.lsc
out the deadheads, to breed up the
big yielders, and year after year, by
perfecting the sires and getting bet
ter and better sires. TO develop bet
ter herd. We We're told the Holstein
was the whole show. We were told to
work for 10000 pounds of milk year
from each COW. Most of US do better
than that. We worked and bred for
quantity. Then the different fads and
frills came-ice to keep the percent
age of bacteria low. We put in ice
houses, running water, windows, seal
ed walls, cement floors, appliances to
make the barn clean as a hospital
clinic. We We're offered premiums.
bonuses, prizes, for this sort of thing.
We accepted the odds and worked up
to the highest requirements of the
score card. And now comes the switch.
After We have taken 20 years to build
up Holstein herds that are record
breakers, the buyers get together and
by a gentleman's understanding they
agree to pay for milk according to
butter fat. You go round and find
what that means to farmers. Get the
farmers side of the argument. Tho
Jersey and the Guernsey are the good
yie!ders of butter fat. Is our work in
building up Holstein herds to go for
nothing? Are We to contaminate our
thorobred herds by mixing in Jerseys
and Guernseys to increase the cream?
Not much! Well go out of business
first and milk will be lacked up an
other cent to the consumers; and that
consumer will squeal; and lot more
of kid-glove advice will be given to the
fool farmer"
Types of kid-GlOve Advice.
And, sure enough, that day when I
picked up leading paper, the COVER
nor of one of the leading dairy states
had uttered these words: "The situa-
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