The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-05-04

! ioily years oSo d FARMER naO
to provide for but one another
than himself" 1t is good policy
for commercial enterprises to
assist them to earn two dollars
where they now earn but one
SO they may spend a porporation-
ate part of the extra dollars, for
a better education of their child
rem more comforts for their
homes. to purchase better farm
implemtns and equipment and to
enjoy the beautiful in life.
A Regular Income
The recent report of the de-
partmcnt of Agricultural for 1918
shows an enormous amount of
wealth. over ten billion of dollars
from the farms of this country
and of that wealth. dairy products
are second only to the corn crop.
Dairy products: Milk. butter,
cheese, condensed milk, ice
cream. milk powder, milk sugar
and casein amounting to nearly
a billion dollars gave greater
income to the people of this ma
ton than the combined total of
crops Of Irish potatoes. sweet po-
tatoes, tobacco, barley. sugar beet
sugar cane, rye. rice and wool.
Dairy products are greater in val
ue than the wheat crop, hay crop
or the cotton crop and yet many
farmers and business men consi-
der dairying as wOmans work Men
AS a rule perfer physical labor.
plowing. planting. harvesting and
thrcshing or grain crops, or feed
ing large herds of steers or hogs.
They want to receive their money
in large sums and gct-rich-
quickly. They forget that it is
the small thing that count. THAT
if you take care of the pennies
the dollars will take care of them
selves"
Dairying is a cash business and
as a cash business it tends to re
move the evil of credit. The
man, the feeder Of cattle, and the
fruit man each receives his money
in lump sums once or twice a
year. He may get crop, and
then again he may not. This is
not the cas-" with the intelligent
dairy farmer. He gets his crop
nv rmimg and night, and h.s crop
can be turned into cash daily.
These small daily returns in the
course of Il year amount tO con-
siderable cash. He who receive.
This money i'm small amounts and
at regular intervals becomes lhri-
fly and pays as he goes, and does
not run up unnecessary accounts.
This is one of the first requisites
of prosperity; hence, darying
brings prosperity. Prosperity re-
suits in business building: there
fore, dairying is n business build
err.
For proof that dairyimg is a
business builder, l have but to- re
fer you to the wonderful growth
OF business i'm Wisconsin, caused
by the development of da"ying i'm
that state in tn" past twenty years
The value of ,iairying to that state
is estimated an annual income of
SIC, 900, OOO. 10000. This large
amount of money, which repre-
setns the accumulation of small
daily cash incomes. has been The
means of good business in that
state because it is the cash in
circulation i'm any community that
gives that community Il financial
rating. Even after the outbreak
of the European war in August.
i9li, the daily cash returns from
the dairy COWS enabled the farm
rrs. merchants and bankers of the
daiy sections of Wisconsin, Mill
netSuta, Iowa and Illinois to- "n-
joy IA good prosperous business.
Take a creamery making over
$50. 900 pounds. of butter annually
last year, 1918, Tia" averag" for
lbultrr in Chicago market quota
tinns was over 28.i cents. or in
the above ease over $4,000. With
Surr"SSful cr"an."ri"s or cheese
factories in th" community, you
will also have he developing nf
dairy cattle crmi"r> t"raus" Ito"
farmers will appr"cial" The value
of better dairy COWS. Tax" dis
ltricis lik" WaukaShr or LAX" Mills
Wisconsin,: Northiield, Minnesota.
or E!gin, Illinois: they are known
Throughout lib" United States and
Canada as dairy cattle c"mters and
buyers for good dairy cattle from
all over the United STATES, Can
ada and even from Japan and
Australia come to tI"s" districts
to max" purchases. thereby bring
ing prn>n riiy To these districts.
Dairying Enriches Soil
Dairyiny is constructive agrl-
cultural. IL rmriclI"s the soil.
while grain farming or cattle
branching .I"pI"t"S the fertility of
the soil. These latter types of
farming are often called soil min
ling. When the farmer sells 100
bushels of corn, h" lis" sells Sl5-
90 worth of his fertility. and when
he sells 100 bushels of wheat he
sells $4,000 worth of his fertility.
but when h" sells 1000 pounds of