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Editorial
December 3, 1909
Golden Valley Chronicle
Beach, Golden Valley County, Billings County, North Dakota
What is this article about?
Hugh J. Hughes introduces a winter series of articles on dairying for farmers, emphasizing its advantages, risks, connection to crop rotation, and integration with broader farming practices. He encourages saving the articles and contacting the editor for questions.
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In opening this dairy series of short talks I want to say a word to the farmers of the state.
I am going to write on dairying largely through these winter months. It is one of the coming certain things in farming, and I shall speak directly to the point about its advantages, and of its dangers.
For there are dangers in dairying. The farmer can lose money there as surely as he can in any other line of business, unless he makes a study of its business side.
With dairying goes rotation of crops. Perhaps the reader may prefer to say that with rotation of crops goes a little dairying. They belong the one to the other.
The maintenance of crop yields calls for stock on the farm, and no form of stock will return larger or surer profits than will the right kind of a cow, rightly handled.
So this dairy series will deal with crop rotations, with the effect of manures, with stock, breeding, seed grain, with all the business of farming. Only for a few months we are to look at the farming business from the standpoint of the man who keeps cows as part of his money-earning investment.
I am not writing these alone. The best knowledge and practical experience of the school is being called upon in this work. I hope that we shall be able later on to reprint these talks as an extension bulletin but as there is no certainty about that, I would suggest that you save them as they appear from time to time. They, together with the longer articles that will appear in your paper, will constitute one of the most practical bulletins ever issued by the college.
Another word: Questions will come to your mind about one thing or another. I am confident that your editor will be more than glad to talk them over with you. He has been trying loyally to help you, and his time and money is going into the column you are reading now. He will be glad to write me about anything that you may wish especially to get from us, and I shall be equally glad to give it prompt attention.
And if you are interested in better stock, better yields, better roads, better returns for the crop you have, tell your editor so. I am sure he will appreciate it.
Sincerely yours,
Hugh J. Hughes.
I am going to write on dairying largely through these winter months. It is one of the coming certain things in farming, and I shall speak directly to the point about its advantages, and of its dangers.
For there are dangers in dairying. The farmer can lose money there as surely as he can in any other line of business, unless he makes a study of its business side.
With dairying goes rotation of crops. Perhaps the reader may prefer to say that with rotation of crops goes a little dairying. They belong the one to the other.
The maintenance of crop yields calls for stock on the farm, and no form of stock will return larger or surer profits than will the right kind of a cow, rightly handled.
So this dairy series will deal with crop rotations, with the effect of manures, with stock, breeding, seed grain, with all the business of farming. Only for a few months we are to look at the farming business from the standpoint of the man who keeps cows as part of his money-earning investment.
I am not writing these alone. The best knowledge and practical experience of the school is being called upon in this work. I hope that we shall be able later on to reprint these talks as an extension bulletin but as there is no certainty about that, I would suggest that you save them as they appear from time to time. They, together with the longer articles that will appear in your paper, will constitute one of the most practical bulletins ever issued by the college.
Another word: Questions will come to your mind about one thing or another. I am confident that your editor will be more than glad to talk them over with you. He has been trying loyally to help you, and his time and money is going into the column you are reading now. He will be glad to write me about anything that you may wish especially to get from us, and I shall be equally glad to give it prompt attention.
And if you are interested in better stock, better yields, better roads, better returns for the crop you have, tell your editor so. I am sure he will appreciate it.
Sincerely yours,
Hugh J. Hughes.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
Education
What keywords are associated?
Dairying
Crop Rotation
Farming Profits
Agricultural Education
Stock Breeding
Extension Bulletin
What entities or persons were involved?
Hugh J. Hughes
The School
The Editor
The College
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Introduction To Dairying Series For Farmers
Stance / Tone
Informative And Encouraging
Key Figures
Hugh J. Hughes
The School
The Editor
The College
Key Arguments
Dairying Is A Promising Aspect Of Farming With Advantages And Dangers
Dairying Requires Studying Its Business Side To Avoid Losses
Dairying Integrates With Crop Rotation For Maintaining Yields
Cows Provide Large And Sure Profits When Properly Handled
Series Will Cover Crop Rotations, Manures, Stock Breeding, Seed Grain, And Farming Business
Articles Draw On School's Knowledge And May Be Reprinted As A Bulletin
Readers Should Save Articles And Contact Editor With Questions