FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 157 



DAIRY FARMING, 



T. A. Borman. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : 



It is too bad that courtesy, and nothing else, should result, 

 in cutting short the talk of such a man as this to whom you have 

 just listened. There is a gentlemian with a dairy instinct which 

 must be possessed by any successful dairyman. It is true that 

 many dairymen are born, and many are made, but those that 

 are made must develop in themselves the feeling, the apprecia- 

 tion of natural and real principles as exemplified by the gentle- 

 men to whom you have just listened. There is not a thing in 

 connection with this dairy business in good practice for which 

 there is not a good and sufficient reason and that runs right back 

 to natural causes. If we ask a school boy when the cow gives 

 the most milk and he will answer you: "In the summertime," 

 and when you ask him why he will tell you that it is because 

 the cow has pasture grass which is the natural feed of the cow. 

 A good rule in the winter is to maintain that summer feed as 

 much as possible, and that is one reason for providing your' 

 ensilage. So we might go on and enumerate these various rea- 

 sons showing wherein there is a natural application of some 

 principle of nature in the handling of the dairy cow in every 

 one of her phases. 



This subject ''Dairy Farming" is a very big subject. First 

 — The Dairy farm as a farm, next The Dairy Herd, and lastly 

 The Young Stock. We cannot combine those three talks into 

 one except by hitting the high places in each. 



I was very much interested in listening to the bankers lastj 

 night urge the farmers to buy cows. I have heard the same 

 thing before, but was not impressed like I was last night. How- 

 ever, the purchase of a few cows and placing of those upon the 

 farm does not by any means set a man up in profitable dairy- 



