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omy that we must study and act. I learned a valuable lesson 

 on this principle from an old German years ago. I had 

 started a little local paper, the foundation of the present 

 '* Hoard's Dairyman." I was very poor in pocket and poorer 

 yet in judgment and courage. My old German friend came 

 in to see me. 



" Well," he says, "that newspaper is a little thing, hey ? " 



"Yes," I answered, " quite little." 



"Don't you mind that," was his comforting response. 

 " Every man's business is just like a carrot that grows in the 

 ground. Way down in the dark is the little end ; up where 

 the sun shines is the big end. If a man measure his busi- 

 ness in his mind by the little end, then always he stays right 

 there. But if he measures his business by the big end, then 

 in a little while he come up where the big end is, and he 

 own der liddle end too." 



Fastening Devices. 



In selecting a method of fastening cows in the stable, I 

 believe it to be of the highest profit to first consider the 

 physical economy of the cow, and the promotion of her 

 milking function. That is "der big end of the carrot." 

 Too many first consider the economy of room, " how many 

 can I crowd into a given space," or economy of time and 

 labor. It is my business to exchange labor for money and I 

 am all the time looking for a chance to invest time, labor and 

 capital, not to save it, but to invest it. 



I must invest it at the highest economy ; but my wife 

 taught me a lesson once about economy when I was preach- 

 ing to her the necessity of denying ourselves. She said, 

 "That is not economy; that is privation. Economy calls 

 for a wise spending of means," and I said, " Madam, I bow 

 to your interpretation of this question. I guess you are 

 right." She has been very often right, much to my chagrin. 



I know of no place in the economy of dairying where 

 time, labor and capital can be invested with better profit than 

 at the cow end of the question. 



I am solidly convinced that the rigid stanchion should be 

 indicted for being a barbarous and unprofitable device. It 

 was invented solely for the comfort and convenience of the 



