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very much higher in winter. With all-the-year- 

 round dairying, too, the hired help is kept continu- 

 ously employed and there is more time to devote to 

 the care and feeding of the herd, there are no flies 

 to annoy the animals and the food supply can be 

 depended upon. Considering all these points we see 

 that winter dairying has many advantages over 

 summer feeding. Go to the creameries through the 

 country and look up the patrons who supply a uni- 

 form quantity of milk month after month through 

 the year and you will find that it is the all-the-year- 

 round dairyman that has the biggest checks and is 

 the most prosperous. 



The principal reason for failures in winter dairy- 

 ing is lack of business methods. To illustrate : A 

 farmer let his cows run out in the corn field in cold 

 bleak weather and the stable was not much warmer 

 than the open fields. When asked why he did not 

 build a warm stable he said that lumber was too ex- 

 pensive and the price of milk too low. Yet this 

 same farmer drove two miles every day with 20 

 quarts of milk, and could give no reasonable excuse 

 for doing so. This man had enough cows on his 

 farm, and had he taken good care of them and fed 

 them properly he could have delivered 100 to 125 

 quarts of milk daily. He was feeding 12 to 14 cows 

 and they were all dry with the exception of three, 

 and they were strippers. This, too, was in the mid- 

 dle of December, when the milk shippers were bid- 

 ding $1.40 per hundred weight at the railroad sta- 

 tion where the farmers delivered their milk. He had 

 no milk to deliver at the time when milk should 



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