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kinds of weather and during every season of the year. While the 

 cows are working in the pasture in the summer, the dairyman is 

 planting, cultivating and harvesting their winter feed. During the 

 winter the laborers who were employed in producing the feed are 

 kept busy in caring for the cows, which convert this summer feed 

 into winter milk. There is no time for idleness on a dairy farm, and 

 hired help can be profitably employed during the entire year. 



g. Profitable Returns for Study. 



18. No branch of farming gives a greater opportunity for 

 profitable thought and study as well as skill and expertness in 

 management, than does dairying, and no line of work gives better 

 returns for intelligent thought than the dairy. Problems in breed- 

 ing and feeding, and in economical production are constantly before 

 the dairyman, and on the proper solution of these depends his pros- 

 perity. The dairyman of all men learns to be kind, gentle, and 

 progressive, as his experience with cows will so'on show the necessity 

 of developing these traits of character to become successful. The 

 favorable statements already made in regard to dairying in general 

 might be still further added to without exaggeration, but those 

 given will apply to any community. It often happens that a certain 

 locality has special advantages for this line of farming, and these 

 should be utilized in every case. There is always room at the top 

 in dairying and success is attained by reading and thinking, and 

 by attending dairy conventions, visiting other dairy farms, and by 

 putting into practice the ideas accumulated in this way. 



B Peculiar Characteristics of a Dairyman. 



19. Certain traits of character seem to be particularly adapted 

 to dairying; and w r hen we consider the reward a man may receive 

 for his labor in this line of w r ork, it seems worth while to cultivate 

 the disposition most needed for success. A dairy farmer must give 

 constant attention to his business. The cows give milk every day 

 in the year, they have no holidays, and since the milk as well as 

 other dairy products are perishable, they must be properly and 

 constantly cared for ; any neglect of either the cows or the products 

 means a loss to the owner. 



20. The dairyman must possess a gentle disposition, as harsh 



