Business Methods in Dairying.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 August 1914, Page 7

Business Methods in Dairying.

To make a success in the dairy business depends upon knowing the fundamental principles ol" that business and applying that knowledge intelligently and in a businesslike way. Milking cows, to many farmers, is task. Handling dairying animals and providing for their needs is indeed no easy matter, but it is as remunerative an occupation as a farmer possessed with ability and industry can follow. No farmer can expect farming alone, under whatever system, to make him rich in the common sense of the term. It is well known, however, that he may provide for his family a comfortable living and a substantial surplus. So much is said and written in this highly "modernised" age about "high positions," "big salaries," "easy work," etc., that it is only natural for the young men and women of our farms to grow up with the idea that work with the hands in connection with brain work is to be shunned. That's one reason why they leave the farm. In depicting life on a dairy farm, in giving instruction about ,the science of dairy farming, it is perfectly proper to- show the bright and attractive side, but too much of this will not do, because when the students in that work get into it for a business, they are liable to figure that every thing is coming to them as easy as it has been pictured, when the opposite is quite likely to be the case, and discouragements and disappointments follow. To make the course complete a rounded out training is the best in the long run—the practical and scientific sides as well as the picturesque. It is as necessary to teach business methods for the dairy farmer or any other class of fanner as it is to teach them the science of thejr work. and even more so, for science without a method can't help but be a failure. Many will, no doubt, scoff at the idea of operating a. dairy farm on a factory basis. They will say it can't be done. However, many of our most successful farms are be-in:* conducted in this manner, and fr m all indications that method p:\v \ — "Jersey Bulletin."