Fundamentals in Dairying GO 



for a superior article. Milk of this character produced under 

 common sense — not dude — conditions will yield a margin of 

 profit beyond the increased cost of production. 



EFFECT ON THE MAN 



By no means least in importance is the effect on the man of 

 associating with well-bred cattle, properly housed, and of send- 

 ing out a product of which he is not ashamed. If I am able to 

 impress on you the importance of this point, the others will follow 

 as a matter of course. If a dairyman is merely keeping cows, 

 without regard to their character or that of their product,* his 

 work is drudgery, and he is " of all men most miserable." When 

 we can come to appreciate that we are dealing with soil and plant 

 life to feed the animal, and that next to man this animal is one 

 of the highest forms of life, all of which are capable of great 

 development, and that by this development we are working hand 

 in hand with God Almighty, our work will take on a dignity 

 undreamed of before, and it will be impossible for us not to make 

 the best of the soil, plants, and animals, and of ourselves as well. 

 We shall come to the enlarged vision that will cause us to appre- 

 ciate that every dollar of real profit is that which shall give to 

 us and ours a more abundant life. 



A man whose soil, intelligently handled, produces at its best ; 

 a man who has well-bred, healthy stock, comfortably stabled, 

 whose product he is willing tO' acknowledge anywhere, is bound to 

 respect himself and to command the respect of his associates, to 

 a degree impossible to him who is satisfied with a minimum of 

 production in either plants or animals, or whose association is 

 with scrub stock kept in unsanitary stables — stock whose product 

 will scarcely be accepted in the markets — for, of necessity, we all 

 partake and become a part of our environment. 



