Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-14

I cockerels as broilers. Furthermore. he happens to have we'll developed
 pull" in the countryts biggest egg
 market, ly which ne gets a really fam ley price for the most of his eggs. He hopes to squeeze through without loss,
 even if with little profit Others, lack ing his advantages and shrewdness and capital selling or have already sold off their doQks.
 The some thing happens in dairies.
 Milk is selling for more than ever be- fore, and butter brings good prices.
 But a good many fairy farmers are facing a prospect of loss rather than
 profit, because no matter. what they 1 get for their milk and butter, they | have to pay so much more for grain | that their extra income is all absorbed
 before the milk fairly gets into the pail
 The trouble Is that a good many peo- | pie of late have gone into" dairying or |. into poultry keeping as a separate bus mess, instead of taking up one of the other or both as helpful adjuncts of farming.
 It is just d part of the "plunging"
 which modern habits of life and thought tend to substitute for the
 steady going plugging away which characterizes real farming.
 Some farmer is reported to have
 made a good thing out of his dairy or his hen yards. At once a lot of other chaps decide that what he has
 pfunge Hns in bud as1 parns 'hey ey henneries and buy feeds in the open market for whatever they have to pay.
 Then. when they fail, they begin to yell about prices and buyers and swell
 the bowling chorus against the high cost of living etc.
 Why, one can hardly glance at the real estate advertisements in any pa nc wi fr6 n fa ost of two acres or less advertised as ad-
 mirably adapted for poultry. I won der that some one doesn't advertise a lot big enough to erect a barn on as admirably adapted for da1rying.''
 We've got to hark back to the old idea that butter making and egg-pro- ducing and pork-Tnaking are simply parts of farm work. to be handled, not as separate and independent business es. but as factors of tha- larger and all-inclusive vocation, farming are or may be msioe parts of farming, if they can be trusted to turn farm product 1n into larger profit than oth- CT methods.
 They will usually do this, when the farm produces such quantities of fod- ders and roughages as will largely suf- and the pigs, without necessitating buying their rations at exorbitant or any othe:- prices, not otherwise
 It looks very much as if the never l very sound idea that one could treat a | farm just like a factory-buy all his | raw materials and use the farm sim l ply to turn them into something mar l<etable-would have to be given up, even by cranks. pretty soon.
 Instead of it, we've got to return to the correct view, viz: that the farm that the keeping of cows or hens or hogs is simply a question of which | will most proftably develop into mar ketable shape that which the farm has supplied.
 A good many farmers, here and there over the country, are coming to see this I read the other day of a been interviewed by some newspaper man. He remarked that he wasn't any about the price of corn pr wheat or any other grain He kept 'elied chiefly for his money income Ipon selling butter, yes. But he lid not have to buy his cow .eed: No, thank you He, had this md oats he should need; he had two ;ilos ready to fill with home grown en- 'ilage and a barn full of f1rst-class lay. He might buy a little cottonseed though of even such things tC be worth mentioning. He had made his farm produce not only all that his stock would consume, but also practically 1 II his family would need. Now listen i 'leaSe:-
 T use my cows to utilize the feeds which would go to waste without hem. There would be no money for ( ne in dairying if I had to purchase ny feeds and meal, but no good far 1er does that" 2
 Eh?
 Asked whether he wouldn't get as h ltHch monery iby ael1fn0 of 11i, corn