THE MODERN FARM 



elsewhere, that there is no profit in producing market 

 milk at present wholesale prices, and yet the fact re- 

 mains that many farmers are not only providing a good 

 livelihood for their families, but at the same time are 

 educating their children and paying off mortgages that 

 earlier conditions made necessary, or that came as a 

 heritage. There is no question, to-day, but that dairy 

 farming provides a ready market for a large amount 

 of directly non-salable farm products that can be con- 

 verted into readily salable animal products and thus be 

 made to return a good profit. From a business view- 

 point, the conditions that are essential in establishing 

 this profit are a converting machine — the dairy cow — 

 well adapted to the work expected of her, and a well 

 organized system of farm management for making this 

 converting machine do its work efficiently. 



Those farming sections of Litchfield County that lie 

 within easy reach of good markets, generally show the 

 highest prosperity. This is due to the fact that a va- 

 riety of farming projects can be undertaken, so that 

 there will be several sources of revenue, and, further- 

 more, to the fact that near-by markets provide the 

 smallest cost of handling between producer and con- 

 sumer. It is a well established fact that in our large 

 cities about two-thirds of the cost price, to the consumer, 

 of food products used is represented in the cost of 

 transportation and handling, and in the profits of those 



