20 UTILIZATION OF LABOR BY DAIRYING 



maintained for the available land. To ship grain 1000 miles 

 to feed is to increase the cost of the cow's ration, and handicap 

 her by that much. In many parts of New England a smaller 

 number of more productive cows, fed far more largely from 

 the home farm, will be found preferable to the present system of 

 raising roughage and buying western grain. 



The dairy cow salvages grass, fodder, and coarse portions of 

 grains. The dairy man, because of the cow, salvages time, morn- 

 ings, evenings, rainy days, and winter seasons. Commercial 

 dairying is the stabilizer of agriculture. The product, milk, is 

 the greatest growth promoter and corrective of faulty diets for 

 both children and adults yet discovered. (See Chap. XXXIX.) 



QUESTIONS 



1. What prices are paid as rental on land in America? Mention rentals 



paid in your section. 



2. Which farm product is most valuable! per pound, wheat, potatoes, eggs, 



or butter? 



3. Why does dairying furnish a regular income? 



4. What work about the farm is the child best adapted to do? 



5. What is a direct income? An indirect? 



6. What is skim milk worth per 100 pounds? 



7. How does a dairy herd help to regulate farm labor? 



8. Name two dangers involved in too high specialization in production. 



9. What is balanced farming? 



10. Explain how dairying is, in a greater degree than even other forms 



of livestock keeping, an industry of salvage. 



