Profitable Dairying

Excerpt from Profitable Dairying: A Manual for Farmers and Dairymen There is no branch of agriculture which yields so handsome and so satisfactory returns to the farmer as the dairy industry, if properly pur sued. To be sure, there are other branches which give larger returns, but these large profits are more than offset by the loss to the soil and the uncertainty of a crop each year. Tobacco may be grown successfully for a number of years on the same piece of ground, but the soil must be diligently worked and extensively fertilized. In the end the overtaxed soil refuses to respond and finally lies exhausted. So it is with grain farm ing. One cannot draw continually on a bank account without renewing his deposits there. Neither can the farmer draw continually from the storehouse of plant food which he possesses; that is, from the soil of his farm, without put ting back the same amount of fertility that he takes off with his cr0p, unless he wishes to wear out and ruin his farm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Profitable Dairying: A Practical Guide to Successful Dairy About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.