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proportion of the men who keep cows, supposedly for profit, show but little 

 real dairy intelligence in their work. There is a lack of intelligence in 

 the breeding of the cow; the same lack of understanding in her care and 

 feeding; a decided lack of knowledge and judgment in farm management. 

 Everywhere are we confronted with men trying to win profit out of this 

 business with too low a grade of intelligence. 



It is not enough that a farmer wants to make money in dairying. That 

 will not make him an intelligent man capable of seeing where good profit 

 lies. The touchstone to it all lies in the fact whether he takes a mental 

 interest in dairying or only a sordid one. If it be a mental interest you 

 will see him calling to his aid the books and papers that constitute the 

 literature of his business for it does have a literature. Science has con- 

 tributed so much to this industry in the way of cattle breeding; the analysis 

 of feeds ; the bacteriology of milk and the relation of bacteria to the diseases 

 of cattle; the sanitary construction of stables and care of the cow; and 

 finally the question of maintaining the feed-producing power of the farm, 

 that the truly successful dairyman must be a broadly intelligent man. He 

 cannot be that kind of a man unless he is a reader and student. He must 

 devote some time and money to his own dairy education. He cannot 

 exercise good discerning judgment upon all the problems of dairy farming 

 unless he has a w^ell-stored mind. The home of the true dairy farmer 

 should be a place of culture and mental grasp as much so as the home of 

 the lawyer or physician. They will find that the dairy farm will challenge 

 all the brain power they can bring to bear upon it. It is the seat of deep 

 problems in vegetable and animal life. There has come a great intel- 

 lectual awakening on this thing we call dairy farming. Our crowded 

 Agricultural Colleges and dairy schools ; the greatly increased demand for 

 thoroughly practical dairy papers and books; the massing of the best 

 scientific minds of the day in research and study concerning the discovery 

 of dairy truth ; all these show conclusively that the dairy farm is no place 

 for the ignorant, unthinking and non-reading farmer. The young men 

 of today see this. True financial success awaits him only who will wel- 

 come knowledge with an open hospitable mind. 



