Only a Farmer! Only a Milk Supplier!

Bruce Herald, Volume LI, Issue 67, 30 August 1915, Page 5

Only a Farmer! Only a Milk Supplier!

At a dairy convention I happened to get into conversation with a pleasant gentleman, and wtieu I asked him if ne was a creamery man ho replied: "JNo I am 'only' a milksupplier to a creauieiy." Having been a mil it producer in days gone by I naturally resented the word "only." Surely the work of tilling the soil ana producing cheap and good milu—the very foundation of successful farming, the very touudtion of a prosperous nation—snould be regarded with more respect especially Dy tnose engaged in it. Winit us,the manufacturer of buttei or cheese to do if you do not provide him with good raw material'; 1 All ins studying, ail ins work goes for naugiit! "unly" a farmer, "only" a milk supplier, yes, 1 grant that it we do nui do our u work properly, if we keep on producing butter fat at 100 or *od per pound when, by a little care—a littie exertion, we might produce it for 6u or Cxi, tuon indeed we ate "only-' farmers; or it we, by carelessness in bundling our mill* tor cue creamery cr the eueesa luct'jry, reduce the value 0.l fci»i»t of or bour who takes good cure of his milli, then we are "oniy ! i'aruiois, "only" poor milk-suppijuis! J.i a iieamerymau wasted butter oat ui p.llled good milk or cream into jkkh ..iiI•.'•). Thou Jih it; "only" a,i -..iun, ai.d t\ wi so il a liiiytviai uKur rushes it.s \vor*, or oj refuse poor then n» is "only" a cheooe-iiiajver. If a dairy writer is raise to himself and his readers, if lie i..s profession by selling his opinions, then lie is "only" a scribbler. Whatever our work is let us take u pride in it, 4 there is more honor in ilie meanest work well done than the finest done in a careless.or dishonest manner! Hid it ever strike the farmers 1 wonder, that by tailing this "only" view of their own worii they go & long way towards driving tneir sons and daughters to the doubtful and risky city life? ft is not olQiir to them tiii.it, even if tlioy miili only a few cows, they ure the necessary cogs m the wheels of that enormous machine which an* tiually grinds out a revenue of millions and millions of pounds sterling, —i'rom "Hansen's Dairy .Bulletin, : '