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that quantity of milk, it is readily apparent that the 
manure resulting balances this loss many times over. 
Dairy farms soon become the most productive of all 
lands if the manure is carefully preserved and properly 
distributed over the land. Instead of exhausting the 
ALFALFA THE WONDERFUL 
From early spring until trost thts queen of the crops is available for all kinds 
of feed. 
land of its fertility, as in the case of grain farming, dairy- 
ing restores the fertility, acting in this way as a real 
balance wheel in preserving the productivity of the land. 
15. What a dairyman should be.—It is trite, but true, 
that in all sorts of farming “there is more in the man 
than there is in the land.” This adage applies particu- 
larly to the dairyman. The dairy farmer must not only 
be a good farmer, but a good judge of cattle; a careful 
and cautious man, he must be habitually regular in his 
habits; endowed with the virtues of patience and per- 
severance, he must possess good, sound, common sense. 
He must be studious and experienced, and able to judge 
wisely as to the points of his business which may be in 
dispute. No less in importance he must be a good busi- 
ness man, a neat, refined gentleman. These character- 
istics are indispensable if success would he attained in 
dairy work. 
