INTRODUCTORY. 



But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew 

 upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps mill- 

 ions, think. BYRON. 



The world is too large to bring all individuals into that contact with 

 their fellow workers whereby each will learn of the other's needs, and each 

 contribute something helpful to the other, except by means of their printed 

 words books. "But words are things," and in the reading diligently, 

 understandingly we may apply the world's best thoughts as we will to 

 our own profit. 



In this book are the best thoughts of well known and prominent in- 

 vestigators and workers in the dairy field. Practical men, every one of 

 them, and who speak from the experience that comes of the doing of things 

 with their own hands, assisted by habits of study the scientific spirit that 

 prompts the observer to seek into the how and the why of things that the 

 world may the better understand, and, understanding, go on to still greater 

 achievement. Words are the things that lead to action and actions are 

 the expressions of knowledge. Those who put off the acquirement of the 

 full knowledge of their industry, will ever be surpassed in their endeavors 

 by those who seek the truth that they may know, for with truth abundant 

 this is not a time for guessing. 



In this book are expounded no theories. Every author deals with 

 facts and takes them first hand. The non-essential things are left out and 

 the essential ones simmered down for easy, every day, practical use. It 

 is a book of the cow, first, last and in the middle. A book of the cow, the 

 calf, the feed, the stable, the pasture, the milking, the care and sale of the 

 milk. Much of it is a record of what has been done with cows, how it was 

 done and who did it. Much more of the book tells what can be done by 

 you, the reader the best way to go about it, and what you may expect 

 in return for the practical application of that better knowledge in your dairy 

 work. 



There is need of better dairying methods. There is need of a general 

 awakening to the demands on the dairy and its wonderful possibilities. 

 The dairy farmer will find a big profit when he dairies right when he ap- 

 plies true dairy principles as they are here demonstrated in superabund- 

 ance of example. 



Applying the right methods doesn't mean more work for the same 

 gain. No one ever lost anything by doing things right by doing the right 

 things at the right time and in the right way. And those things, and that 

 way, is every bit the whole story of what this book endeavors to impress 

 and help you to accomplish. 



CHICAGO, ILL., October 1, 1902. 



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