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forty bushels yearly is required to come out even on high- 

 priced land. Truths of this sort are what our farmers 

 need to grasp, for the ten-year average yield of wheat 

 in this country is fourteen bushels per acre, while Ger- 

 many's is twenty-eight bushels, England's thirty-two 

 bushels, and Denmark's more than forty bushels. 



Of course farmers who wish to diversify and get a 

 large percentage of retail prices must consider the matter 

 of location. Transportation facilities and the nearness 

 to large markets are two of the first questions. Nature 

 does 90 per cent of the work in producing from the soil — 

 man does all the work in transporting that which is pro- 

 duced to the market where it can be turned quickly into 

 money. 



The farmers of Jefferson county, Wisconsin, realize 

 from their cows, in milk product, over two million dol- 

 lars annually, while from the sale of cows and heifers 

 they receive about $700,000. This combining dairying 

 with dairy stock breeding and raising, makes of the 

 farmer a much better equipped man all around, while it 

 enhances his profits. Most of the milk is handled in 

 creameries, and the skimmed-milk product, with the 

 abundant corn crops, and alfalfa and clover, enables the 

 farmer to turn a fine pork crop every year. 



This all-around dairy farming pays well, when intelli- 

 gently managed, with the added advantage that the 

 farmer is more his own master, and his calling educates 

 him more broadly and more completely. 



Dairy farmers must become better stock raisers than 

 they have been, whether they operate east or west, if they 

 want larger profits and a larger share in what they earn. 

 A few men can not control the butter market, or pork 

 market, and the market for cows and heifers, as they do 

 the milk market in large cities. 



