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cows must be milked, the butter made, or the cream delivered, rain 

 or shine, hot or cold. 



Your Secretary wrote me to dwell more particularly on what 

 feeds to grow and what to buy. Each man can best work out 

 this problem according to his soil and seasons. I have tried as 

 best I could to tell how I hope to make money dairying. 



Another essential for successful dairy farming, and to keep 

 it running in the proper manner, is to have a clean woman some- 

 where near the balance wheel, to keep things bright and shiny, or 

 else the accumulation of dirt and cobwebs is sure to over-balance 

 any effort that we men might make. A dairy farm should also 

 have boys and girls growing up along with the business, or else 

 it is apt to go down hill as we grow old. Yet it is not wise to 

 try to grow high priced cows and cheap boys. I am endeavoring 

 to teach my boys to know more and do better and gain by my 

 experience. These boys are only seven and nine years old, but the 

 firm name is ''S. H. Pile & Sons, proprietors of Seven Hills Dairy 

 Farm," and I hope to have it remain thus. I want to educate these 

 boys for the farm, instead of away from it, as so often happens. 



There is more in life than the mere accumulation of dollars. 

 We want to keep ourselves bright and young as long as possible, 

 to be able to enjoy some of the pleasures and luxuries of life, to 

 leave behind us better men and women in our children than we 

 are ourselves. 



Wise spending of money, I believe, will result in greater re- 

 turns than niggardly economy, and even if we do not hoard so 

 many dollars, we will have had the satisfaction of keeping them 

 in circulation. 



One profitable cow will eat but little more than an unprofitable 

 one. It may cost a little to find the right one, but it pays to do so. 

 It may be necessary to spend some money to find the people who 

 are willing to pay extra prices for good butter and cream, but the 

 money comes back many hundred-fold. Clover seed, silos, ma- 

 chinery, all cost money, but not like high priced mill feeds. It 

 costs to care for the manure, but think of the extra crops resulting 

 therefrom. A good barn costs more than the "dome of heaven," 

 but isn't the barn worth while? 



