A D VA NT A GES OF DA IR Y FA RMING 1 3 



2. Milk is a necessary article of food for which 

 there will always be a demand. For a considerable 

 length of time the young animal, man, lives almost 

 exclusively upon milk. Milk and its products enter 

 into the dietary of all civilized people at all ages, 

 hence the dairy farmer knows that he is producing an 

 article for which there will always be a market. 

 Changes of fashion, or whims of fancy, will not rob 

 him of a market for his produce. 



3. Plenty of labor is required upon the dairy farm, 

 and in all labor, if properly directed, there is profit. 



4. The results are more uniform year after year. 

 The price of dairy products does not vary so much 

 as that of other farm produce. 



5. Rough, waste land may be utilized for profitable 

 dairy farming, where other modes of farming would 

 be unprofitable. 



6. It may be carried on all the year winter as 

 well as summer thus giving profitable employment 

 in winter. 



7. Dairy farming enables the farmer to produce 

 articles of high value according to weight and bulk. 

 This is a material advantage where the chief market 

 is distant. A ton of butter will sell for about $400, 

 a ton of cheese for about $200, and a ton of wheat 

 for less than $25. The cost of transportation to 

 market, per $100 worth of these three products, is 

 very much in favor of trie butter and cheese. 



8. The fertility of Canadian soils will not be robbed 

 by selling dairy products, especially butter. Every 

 load of grain, hay or straw, every live animal sold 



