1.2 DAIRYING. 



treatment will reduce the flow of milk as well as lack of feed; and 

 when the stock shows a tendency to run from rather than towards a 

 farmer, it shows that he does not possess the disposition necessary 

 for a successful dairyman. 



21. He should also possess good judgment, as this is especially 

 needed in the buying of concentrated feeds and in determining 

 whether it is profitable for him to grow certain crops on his farm 

 and sell them, using the money to buy feed particularly adapted for 

 milk -production. He must also consider whether in his particular 

 locality it is more profitable for him to turn his attention to winter 

 or summer dairying. As a rule, winter dairying is more profitable 

 because the prices of dairy products are higher in the winter than 

 in the summer. But in some cases, cows require less care during 

 the summer time than in the winter, and many farmers prefer to 

 have their cows produce the largest quantities of milk during the 

 summer time, even though the prices of dairy products are lower 

 at this season of the year. 



C Winter Dairying. 



22. The season of the year in which the largest quantity of 

 milk is produced varies with different dairymen. Those who wish 

 to supply a trade that calls for approximately the same amount of 

 milk each month, arrange to have some cows in the herd come in 

 fresh every month. In some localities, especially where the winter 

 seasons are not extremely severe, there is a tendency to have the 

 cows freshen in the spring, allowing them to browse in scant pasture, 

 timber lots, or swamp through the summer, giving what milk they 

 will for several months, and then allowing them to dry up and run 

 in the corn fields or around straw stacks during the winter. 



24. Milk produced in this way is usually very expensive, even 

 though it does not cost much to feed the cows, as the amount of 

 milk given per cow does not sell for enough to pay for the new 

 cows that must be bought to keep up the herd. No herd will 

 endure such treatment many years; and the loss of cows as well as 

 the cost of the feed that may be given them is enough to discourage 

 anyone from keeping cows on such a system as this. 



25. A farmer's attitude toward dairying will change entirely 

 when he begins to make preparations for winter dairying. This 



