THE DAIRYMAN'S MANUAL 



CHAPTER I. 

 DAIRY FARMING, 



Daiey farming has always been, and will always be, 

 the most profitable branch of agriculture. It is a manu- 

 facturing industry, and a skilled manufacture; and man- 

 ufacturing finished products from raw materials gives 

 the greatest profits to the labor and skill which the enter- 

 prising man devotes to the industry. It is so with all 

 manufactures. The cotton planter, who grows the cotton 

 for the spinner and weaver, is hard worked, lives poorly, 

 and never has been known to accumulate a sufficient 

 fortune to relieve him from work ; but the cotton manu- 

 facturers, who work up the planter's product, are pro- 

 verbially wealthy, and build up rapid and large fortunes 

 from their skill and enterprise. It is so in all agricul- 

 tural labor. The grain farmer is not only the slave and 

 the victim of all the adversities of season and weather 

 and markets, but he sees the richest portion of his land 

 carried off in his exhaustive crops, while these leave him 

 nothing where with to restore his fields to fertility; and he 

 is in the unhappy condition — if he is a thoughtful man 

 — of one who is living upon his capital, and is daily eating 

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