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‘THE RURAL, NEW-YORK EH 
May 17 , 
Live Stock and Dairy 
OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN IN 
DAIRYING. 
You ask if the dairy business in this 
locality appears to offer a good opening 
for young men. The answer to this 
question is difficult, for it involves so 
many different influencing factors. If 
you had said “dairying” instead of 
“dairying in this locality” the answer 
would be simpler, for our disadvantage 
in being some distance from the large 
consuming centers would then not have 
to be balanced against the probable dis¬ 
advantage of higher taxes and land 
values near the centers. Nor would 
other similar comparisons have to be 
made. However, considering simply 
dairying in this locality I should say 
that it does offer a good opening for 
young men, if: 
1. They are naturally fond of ani¬ 
mals and out of doors. 
2. They know the rudiments of arith¬ 
metic and will use them freely, keeping 
accurate account of their affairs and 
realizing that dairying is a real busi¬ 
ness and not a catch-as-catch-can sort of 
a game with Nature. 
3. They realize that dairying (stock 
and land improvement) is a long-term 
business, and consequently that the 
management of both herd and fields must 
be not only with reference to its im¬ 
mediate effect, but with reference to 
its effect several years hence as well.- 
4. They realize at the very beginning 
the supreme importance of very high 
grade cows and a purebred sire. 
5. They have a working capital of at 
least 10 per cent, of their gross In¬ 
vestment. 
These conditions may sound too dras¬ 
tic to some, and I will grant even that 
there are some dairymen who are mak¬ 
ing a success while observing but one 
or two of them. Nevertheless, the fact 
remains that dairying- is a business 
proposition and any young man upon 
going into it should be prepared to 
carry it on upon strict business prin¬ 
ciples only, working it for all it is 
worth and going in to win. And I 
believe that the young man who does 
this in this locality will surely succeed. 
Outlook for Dairying.— The outlook 
for dairying in this vicinity is about as 
usual. Good cows are scarce and prices 
for apparently good cows judged by 
their appearance alone, not tuberculin 
tested, run from $50 to $60. Cows that 
will produce better than 250 pounds fat 
per year and tested for tuberculosis, in 
the rare cases that a buyer can find a 
dairyman who actually knows what his 
cows are doing, bring from $75 to $100. 
These figures are higher than in pre¬ 
vious years, and I believe are to be 
accounted for by the demand for cat¬ 
tle for beef, and by the fact that farm¬ 
ers are slowly but surely coming to real¬ 
ize that one of the greatest essentials 
for profitable dairying is a profitable 
cow. There seems to be a growing ten¬ 
dency among dairymen in this section 
to raise more calves to maturity, al¬ 
though purebred sires are still used to 
a very limited extent. Ton prices for 
feed are as follows: Bran, $25; cotton¬ 
seed meal, $33; cornmeal, $25; gluten, 
$29; Union grains, $33; brown mid¬ 
dlings, $26; linseed meal, $32; hay, $12. 
WALTER s. BROWN. 
Chittenden Co., Vt. 
INVEST MONEY IN STOCK. 
capital into his neighborhood and creat¬ 
ing a market for his further products. 
Too little attention is given to modern 
intensive farming by the man who has 
always tilled the soil and has never given 
books or the pamphlets of the Agricul¬ 
tural Departments time or place in his 
mind. This man with his practical 
knowledge could apply the new princi¬ 
ples to the greatest advantage to him¬ 
self if he would only bring himself to 
see and try experiments. A man with 50 
acres should have 50 head of stock, all 
productive. Many progressionists keep 
a cow to the acre, and money rolls their 
way. They have applied their book 
learning and practical knowledge, and 
get rich at it, whereas the man who puts 
out his earnings at the bank for 3 l / 2 per 
cent, practically stands still. This man 
takes no chances, he plays safe; the 
other takes a business risk in a business 
he thoroughly understands and gets re¬ 
sults. 
A man with his land paid for should 
progress, increase his product and out¬ 
put. Intensive farming means all the 
stock the land will keep, and the better 
the stock the better the financial return. 
Of course there is more risk the greater 
the value, but the interest return is in 
proportion. If a man can obtain only 
one animal let it be of a productive 
nature; a mare, a cow, a sow, etc., and 
on that let him build his future. The 
back-to-the-lander who buys a gelding 
or bull or boar is going still further 
backwards; he is wasting capital and 
valuable time. Careful thought should 
be given to productivity in everything; 
on this one point hangs the future of 
many a man on a farm. 
No man, no matter how old or how 
rich, while he owns an acre of farm 
land should allow it to be idle; he 
should make it produce. If he cannot 
work himself let him use a portion of 
his capital to hire help and then try to 
put his brains and experience into the 
help in order to keep up his creative 
power to the bitter end. Feed the 
ground and the ground will feed the 
stock, and remember stock pays better 
in the long run than truck on which 
the farmer must depend on someone at 
a distance to dispose of. Keep your 
products where you can keep your eye 
on them and make the buyer come to 
you; he brings money into the territory, 
which he must spend for maintenance, 
etc. Then you will get the whole dol¬ 
lar and the sucker can look for his 65 
cents. 
There is an old saying, “Let the shoe¬ 
maker stick to his last.” If more farm¬ 
ers would apply the above principles and 
create their own business, farming, at 
home where they could watch them in 
person, fewer would be asking aid to get 
out of the hands of “get-rich-quick” 
promoters, and if their surplus were re¬ 
invested in their own business the sooner 
they would be stricken from the “sucker 
list of honorary members.” Keep your 
money in your own business; it will go 
further and last longer. 
J. ALEXANDER VAN RENSSELAER. 
Free Folder to Help You Save 
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It is amazing to the trained mind to 
find how few farmers are financiers. 
Most of the class are thrifty and save 
money, but after that end is attained 
they fail to use it to the best advantage. 
They do not realize that money must 
work just as hard for the owner as the 
possessor worked to obtain it. If a 
farmer is at all broad-minded he will 
put his money at interest in a savings 
bank, and receive for its use possibly 
3J4 per cent. This man does not stop 
to think that if he used this money as 
capital to purchase better stock, a pure¬ 
bred animal properly mated would not 
only increase the capital invested but 
the offspring would more than compound 
the interest; that by raising the quality 
he would increase the value. If care 
and careful thought were used there is 
the probability of a superior product 
which if advertised to the outside world 
might interest someone in the purchase 
of this product at a fancy price, which 
in itself would be worth while without 
taking into consideration the fact that 
this progressionist was bringing new 
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