DBPEECIATION OP THE DAIEY HERD 111 



from time to time as the necessity arises. The 

 dairyman who is selling liquid milk and who, 

 therefore, has no skim-mUk available will often, 

 perhaps usually, find this the wisest plan. This is 

 especially true if he is located on high-priced land 

 and has no rough outlying areas where heifers and 

 dry stock may be cheaply pastured. It is emphati- 

 cally true, however, that the purchase plan is by 

 no means ideal. The buyer will always be asked to 

 accept animals which are really the rejects and 

 discards of other men. Also, he can never escape 

 the danger of buying tuberculosis and epidemic 

 abortion together with its sequel, barrenness. He 

 stands more than a fair chance of acquiring hard 

 milkers and kickers and fence jumpers. He will 

 abundantly exemplify the ancient maxim of the 

 law, "Let the buyer beware." As an offset to these 

 disadvantages is the fact that to rear a calf on 

 whole milk and purchased foods and pasture it on 

 high-priced lands will almost always cost more 

 than to purchase a fresh cow in the markets. The 

 only reason why the dairyman so situated should 

 raise a calf is the expectation that it will make a 

 better cow than he can buy. 



In the vicinity of cities are numerous examples 

 of what might be called "high pressure" dairying, 

 the cows being bought when new-milch, heavily 

 fed and milked and then as soon as they begin to 

 take on flesh and diminish in milk yield, they are 

 sold for beef and a fresh cow installed in their 



