No. I.] DAIRY ECONOMICS. 173 



Cleanliness, Order, Neatness. 



A great many farmers do not possess a civilized idea of 

 cleanliness in the management of cows ; they seem to be 

 slovens by instinct. Every creamery in the land has to con- 

 tend with them, and the bad effects of their management. 

 It seems to be impossible to make them realize that there is 

 a money value in the health and efficiency of their cattle, 

 as well as increased price for their product, if they will but 

 practise cleanly methods. Take this observation with you, 

 and note if I am not right : The neat, clean, tasty farmer 

 is almost invariably a successful one ; he never wastes. 

 Uncleanliness means disorder, and disorder means waste, 

 and waste means loss. 



I have two dairy farmers in mind as I speak. The first 

 was a neighbor. He farmed for twenty years on the same 

 farm with a fine herd of Jersey cattle, most of them regis- 

 tered. He died leaving' his farm covered with a mortgage 

 of $3,000. He was never an orderly, neat farmer. His 

 widow, a very capable woman, took up the task, and in ten 

 years had paid up the mortgage, managed the help and the 

 cows, cleaned up the fields and made tidy every fence cor- 

 ner, educated the children, and now has a handsome deposit 

 in the bank. Woman-like, she did not tire at small details : 

 she was close and orderly in her ideas of farm and cattle 

 management ; she allowed nothing to go to waste ; she em- 

 ployed always sufficient help to do her work well ; she had 

 no expensive habits. The farm is increasing in productive- 

 ness, and she is a pronounced success. 



In the interest of dairy economics, I believe I would like 

 to see the wives of many farmers handle the farm and the 

 cows. 



False Pride. 



Here is another uneconomic factor which aids greatly to 

 keep the dairyman in a fog of self-conceit, and serves to con- 

 firm his ignorance. Mr. F. L. Marion of North Woburn, 

 Mass., in a communication to "Hoard's Dairyman," last 

 February, says : — 



I've visited several large dairies that claimed to be doing ad- 

 vanced dairy work and putting up especially clean milk. The 



