TWO CLASSES OF DAIRYMAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1883, 28 September 1918, Page 4

TWO CLASSES OF DAIRYMAN.

With the dairy cows throughout the country working al full blast, and with lots of other farm work to he doin', the help problem is one that again has sonic dairymen on the verge of detraction. But every once in a while wc run across a dairyman who -ccrns (o us to he so supremely contented with hi.- lot that iu our mind wc have come to consider his kind in a class by lliemselve.-. ll is the dairyman who, in all probability, has a small, wellkept farm, a herd of ten to twenty cows —ns likely as not registered pnrebreds' —who milks and cares for them himself, who loves them and loves to work with them, and who is making money out of them.

Contrast this Mass with the dairyman —of whom we have many —whose business is 100 big for him, who is trying to spread out over a big weed-covered, half cultivated and half-cared-i'or-farm, and who hopes to gratify hi- ambition hy a large number of ■ indifferent cows, none of which he or his help know anything individually ahoul, and care less. It'- number-, -how, splurge, confusion, ami, in general, a rush to make a clean-up and get away from the dairy business al Ihe Ill's I opporlunily. There is no sali--laction in such a -tale of affairs, not oven with the hired help, and in the average ease this class of dairyman is not gelling ahead as suh--tanlially a- is the oilier elas-, and instead of getting satisfaction out of the business he is leading a life of misery. Study the dairy business in California (say- the Pacilic Dairy Review), and you will find just this situation —on (he one hand successful, prosperous, small dairymen with good cow- and who have their business well iu hand: the other, the so-called “big" dairyman, too often making little or no progress and operating under a burden of debt and an unsystematic and unprofitable enterprise.