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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 25, Issue 39, 22 May 1914, Page 7

In order to put dairying on a business basis every farmer needs to use the milk scales, the tester, and tbs record book. The successful business man has a ledger to guide him in his transactions. Every dairyman needs to enter a separate account with each of his cows, so that h-' may have an indicator to tell him at the end of the year just how much feed each cow has consumed, th amount of milk produced, and the percentage it tests. Too many farmers of the country are keeping the scrub cow, feeding and milking her twice a day, fourteen times each week, sixty times each month, and seven hundred and twenty times each year merely for the pleasure of her company, when a portion of | thh time might well be expended in estimating the feed, weighing and testing the milk, and crediting- the : -nr to each cow. Many good dairjmen squander thirty minutes each day gambling with the scrub cow when three minutes’ ■ time with the scale tester, and record-book would put the herd upon a paying basis and money in their pockets. The keeping of records is a business transaction, and me.ms the essential difference between knowing and guessing, pleasure and drudgery, profit and loss, success and failure.—G. L. Martin, North Dakota Agricultural College.