SUCCESS IN DAIRYING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 April 1939, Page 7

SUCCESS IN DAIRYING

EIGHT CARDINAL POINTS = •OVERCOMING OBSTACLES What are the qualities that make for success in dairying? There are successful and unsuccessful dairy farmers; where lies the difference? Why do some succeed and so many fail? In a spirit of helpfulness, is it worth while to try and find the reasons? Let us try by setting down the qualities that make for success:— (1) Accurate knowledge; the knowledge that helps a man to select a farm that can be worked profitably; the knowledge that enables him to build up a high-yielding herd and keep it in good health and vigour; the knowledge that enables him to feed his herd so that it may live up to its inherited capacity to produce. Most people are too lazy to acquire accurate information. (2) A definite objective. The determination to have by a certain date a herd of a certain size yielding a certain average of butterfatt. (3) The ability to plan the day's work, and the month's work, and the year's work, so that the objective may be attained by the stated time. (4) The ability to handle men so that he may have the co-operation of employees in carrying out his plans. (5) Courage based on faith in him- , self and on the knowledge that his ; plans are sound; that they have . brought success to others. (6) Will power. The ability to L concentrate on his objective. (7) A sense of order. No sloven- ; ly, careless person can succeed at 1 anything. (8) Persistence. There is no subs stitute for persistence. Every successful man has had his defeats, but has persevered until they were turn--2 ed into success.