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My experience thus far convinces me that creamery operators 

 should encourage rather than discourage the use of the hand separate*". 

 It seems from results to mean an increased business for the creamery, 

 and greater returns for the farmer, two very convincing arguments to 

 me in their favor. 



HOW CAN THE MISSOURI FARMER NOT IN REACH OF A 

 CREAMERY RE A SUCCESSFUL DAIRYMAN? 



(By John Patterson, Kirks ville, Mo.) 



If the farmer is not in a locality where the milk will sell, he must 

 learn to make a good edible and salable article out of the milk. It can 

 be made into butter or cheese. Before he undertakes it, he should cal- 

 culate how he can make dairying pay better than the growing of corn 

 or hay, or the raising of cattle or hogs for sale. That will depend upon 

 how much you make, how well you make it and how successful you are 

 in selling it. If you make a good article of butter it must not go to 

 market as common country butter, but must be made and put up in a. 

 marketable shape, so that in the opinion of the merchant and consumer 

 it can compete with creamery butter. You can best learn dairying by 

 taking a course in dairy instruction at our Experiment Station. If you 

 cannot go there yourself, and have sons and daughters, send them there, 

 or hire some one who has taken a course in dairying at that institution, 

 or pick out a good girl or boy and send to the dairy school with the 

 understanding, when he has finished the course he will work for you. 

 If you cannot do this, do not give up, you can learn by talking with 

 some one who knows the business and by reading good dairy papers. 

 The old saying is true "Where there is a will, there is a way." 



If you tell your neighbors of your intention to try that kind of 

 work, you are sure to get discouraging advice. They will tell you how 

 much work there is in it, how many have gone at it and failed. They 

 never know or tell how many have worked at dairying and paid for 

 their farms and built good, comfortable homes and made comfortable 

 livings thereby. You can go into parts of the country where dairying 

 is the principal occupation and find that dairymen have succeeded in 

 their business and their land is not worn out. 



How can one make a success at dairying? Start with good cows, 

 but do not be too quick to condemn the cows you have till they have 

 had a fair chance to show what they can do. A cow on poor pasture, 

 on corn and timothy hay, exposed to all sorts of weather does not have 

 a chance to do her best for you. Give her good pasture and feed her 



