RURAL NOTES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 28, Issue 1431, 3 April 1897, Page 3

RURAL NOTES.

PROGRESSIVE bADITIVG. , The great difficulty is. not jn the "soil, climate, or water, but the lack "of intelligent ideas of what modem dairying demands: First, the kind of cow that is needed; second, the treatment that .should be accorded ber; third, how to feed her,; fourth, how to produce that feed the most perfectly and cheaply : .fifth, a knowledge, of creamery wc-k, and the relation that should exist between the patron and the creamery. All of these ideas are vastly, different from those which prevailed fifty years .ago. ..When a people will not educate themselves into a sound modem dairy judgment they will not "prosper to the best profit in doing anything with the modern dairy. Success depends . almost wholly upon the amount of dairy intelligence prevailing in the communities. In Wisconsin, great as it is in dairying, we have many communities where scarcely any profit is made from the cows. Not 50 miles from there are other communities that ait: rapidly petting rich by the industry. The first will do nothing for their own education or information. The latter are striving constantly, to make a study ot the business. Jt is a very ounnion thing to see a farmer who will not pay a cent, for sound dairv information, but who yearly loses a hundred times more because of bad judgment that sound knowledge would correct. A community mane up of that kind of farmers cannot make money keeping cows. Dairying is essentially a work of intelligence, and ignorance of settled dairy principles is its greatest foe.—An Exchange.