THE CALL OF THE LAND 



ducer's cost of butter about 20 per cent. We 

 prove whole milk too expensive for rearing 

 calves, skim-milk with meal, oats or bran, 

 offering a satisfactory substitute far cheaper 

 and leaving us the cream as clear saving. 



A bushel of grain from the farm carries 

 away a large amount of fertility. So do 

 animals' carcasses. Where butter is sold 

 what leaves is mainly carbohydrates, of lit- 

 tle value as fertilizers. By dairying you 

 restore or maintain land fertility and sell 

 instead the products of air and sunshine. 

 As a means of condensing farm raw mate- 

 rial into a commodity of maximum value by 

 the pound or the cubic inch dairying has no 

 equal. Butter from the central United 

 States can be marketed anywhere in the 

 world. Rough fodders and grasses are thus 

 concentrated for export. 



The industry tends to intensify farming. 

 It fosters frugality and industriousness, as 

 it demands painstaking methods and steady 

 employment the year round. It can be car- 

 ried on where high land values render 

 common farm practice unremunerative. 



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