14 THE FARM DAIRY. 



nized as the years pass. The rapid advance in 

 price of lands all over the United States; the 

 unprecedented number of immigrants; the 

 awakening of the public to the value o f milk as 

 a human food are among the causes t hat are _at 

 work to bring more faraaers^jto^think about 

 dairying. 



Dairying Most Profitable. — The dairy farm 

 may be located in the Northeast, it may be lo- 

 cated in the cotton section, it may. be on the 

 Pacific Coast, it may be in the British posses- 

 sions or it may be in the combelt, but wherever 

 it is when properly managed it is paying better 

 than any other line of farming for a term of 

 years. The dairy farmer is not a soil robber as 

 is the farmer who sells his soil fertility by the 

 load in his com, oats, wheat, hay and other 

 bulky products. The majority of farmers are 

 the most senseless lot of robbers on the face of 

 the earth; they are robbing themselves of their 

 soil fertility which is of as much importance as 

 their bank account. They realize that they can- 

 not continue checking out of their bank with- 

 out making deposits, but they act as though they 

 expected to continue checking against their 

 soil fertility for all time without returning a 

 fair equivalent. 



Losing Fertility. — Some Illinois lands have 

 grown com for forty or fifty years in succes- 

 sion and some lands in the cotton belt have 



