People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — COMMENTS ON DAIRY TOPICS [ARTICLE]

COMMENTS ON DAIRY TOPICS

It is very natural to look upon dairying as a means of bettering our conditions. That is all right. There is not much danger of the dairy business being over done. Now then bow shall we proceed? Usually we think that if five cows will pay, ten will pay the same percent, and so on. This is a mistake. We all have certain capacity for business, and while one man might handle 50 cows successfully, another might fail, but could handle 25 all right. The man that can make Live cows average 300 pounds of butter in one year is by no means sure to make ten cows average the same. We must begin with h few cows and learn bow to feed and c.uc for them, and then we can tell whether we can handle more. In fact each man has a limit as to the number of cows he can handle successfully.