C)0 AC.kl CULTURE OF ]MAIXE. 



contemplates the keeping of only profitable cows and keeping 

 them and feeding them in conformity with the most advanced 

 scientific practices, practically applied to the conditions of 

 each particular farm. 



There must be economical and systematic feeding and full 

 feedine. There must be attention to the comfort of the cows, 

 and, probably above all else, there must be close regard for the 

 health of the animals. 



Along with dairy performance, the breeder and feeder must 

 work for endurance and constitution in his stock. This ani- 

 mated dairy machine must not only be a good worker but a 

 long wearer as well. 



Good dairying means good farming and the fullest possible 

 profitable farm production of dairy feeds. This is one of the 

 fundamentals of successful animal husbandry, and the fullest 

 dairy success must be based upon it. The farmer dairyman 

 should grow only profitable crops that he may dispose of to 

 himself as a dairy farmer. To illustrate: Obviously the 

 Maine farmer who can produce sugar corn for the canners at 

 $120 per acre cannot afford to use the land producing it for 

 growing say $50 worth of flint corn, simply because the latter 

 is an excellent cow feed. In his particular case, however, I sus- 

 pect there are times when the farmer can supply his market 

 with sugar corn and by plowing up perhaps some unprofitable 

 pasture or meadow grow his cow corn also. This is merely a 

 suggestion, given for what it is worth to the thoughtful dairy- 

 man who is paying heavy feed bills. 



Finally, dairy farming means land fertility, for it means 

 manure making and economical manure saving and using. 

 Manure is the land's by-product, its life, its ability to produce 

 maximum yields of normally grown crops and to keep at it as 

 long as man shall live by the tending of his flocks and herds 

 in providing food and raiment for all the generations of his 

 kind that shall people the earth. 



