The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-12-22
DAIRYLNC MAKES
THRIFTY FARMS
IMPROVED LIVESTOCK CALL FOR
MODERN EQUIPMENT AND d.
VERSIFIED FARMING.

The benefits of dairying are many
| and far reaching. Dairying leads to a
better nourished rural and city popula-
lation. Scientific investigation has
shown milk to be superior to any sin
gle food for promoting growth and
maintaining the health of the human
race. Dairying calls for thrifty farm
practices. The days work is start
ed early and closes late. Hogs and
poultry are almost necessary ad-
junSts of the dairy and add two 9TH
er sources of revenue to the farm in
come. By keeping cows the fertility
of the farm is maintained and per
manent agriculture established. Fer
tile soils pave the way for large and
profitable crops, which in .urn make
comfortable bank balances. Most
everyone who owns livestock tries to
improve upon them. Improved live
stock calls for better buildings and
and homes in keeping with them.
Improvements of this character
start many other industries, ,suchas
mills, factories and the various dis
tributing agencies. The manufacture
and sale of of dairy products in and of
themselves provide employment. for
many and call for great investment
in buildings, machinery and special
transportation.
By serving the needs of the dairy
COW and letting her serve ours, an
endless chain of activities is turned
loose.
Granting the above, the mex. ques-
ton concerns the individual dairVman,
If dairying is profitable, to what ex-
tent is it profitable and under what
conditions Merely purchasing a
bunch Of cows proceeding to milk
them will not necessarily make a per-
son wealthy. Cows must fit them
selves into the peculiarities and spec
ial conditions of every farm before
they are profitable. Unless the in
divldual dairyman can sense the re-
lationship that should exist between
his cows and his other farm oper-
ations, he is quite likely to be disap-
pointed in time.
In rainy sections, timber lands,
waste lands Of one kind or another,
and lands which are distant from mar
llet, cows can be used to gather the
forage in the inaccessible parts OF
the farm and convert the same into a
product having cash value. The
theoretical limit in these cases is the
number Of cows these waste lands
will carry.
In highly cultivated areas, such as
irrigated idaho, conditions for dairy
ing are quite different. Aside from
cleaning up the fenlds in the fall and
AL = H. Il, = H. l,l
the winter time the cow must use pro-
ducts which already have marke.
value and labor which can be utili
lied elsewhere. 1t makes her a com
petltor of-such crops as grain, hay,
beets and various other crops which
may be grown on the farm and un-
less she can take the feed from an
acre of ground and make it return
larger dividends than the same acre
devoted to the production of some of
the crops named above, the number
of cows that can be profitably car 1
ried on a farm will be reduced to the
few that can be carried as a mod |
crate chore.
1t requires cow of extraordinary
producing ability to pay for both feed /
and labor, to pay interest on invest
ment and depreciation and leave a
profit. But as a measn of conserv-
ing waste feeds and utilizing labor |
to the fullest she is unexcelled.
Considered in this connection and I
bearing in mind that dairy products /
are marketed continuously and in I
themselves to the upkeep Of the fam I
lily, there are practically no farm
which would not be benefited by keep /
in few cows.
(Carl F. Johnson, Idaho Falls, Direc-
tor Idaho State Seed Show