Pierre Weekly Free Press

Dairy Aphorisms.

"You can never put too much water in milk if you always put it through the cow's mouth." This is one of many analogous aphorisms by Professor Robertson, the Canadian Dairy Commissioner. Among his duties is that of delivering lectures to farmers throughout the country. Of late years the Dominion Government has adopted many wise measures for improving Canadian agriculture. Ex.

Experimental farms have been established in widely separated provinces, and placed under men who are at once practical and scientific farmers. They conduct and report on attempts to acclimatize new varieties of grain and fruit. They experiment on methods of feeding stock, and carefully note the results for government publication.

It is believed that a well planned system for improving the breeds of cattle, horses and hogs throughout all Canada, will be soon taken in hand by the administration. This would add greatly to the value of the permanent living plant of the people, and to practical politics in the best sense.

Meantime the wide circulation by that government of the Dairy Commissioner's admirable lectures will go far to impress farmers with the folly of continuing some old practices.

Here are a few more of his telling aphorisms.

"Some farmers are wont to think what they call sentiment belongs to literary people alone, people who wear long hair and use a good deal of hair-oil. But if you can put right sentiment into a farmer's life and make him feel proud of his business,

he will do that business the better for it, and such sentiment to him will prove a paying acquisition.

"The hog is not such undesirable citizen if he is well fed and well kept. He is one citizen of the American Republic that has helped most to make it wealthy. Of course I mean the kind of hog that is fed in pens. Even little pigs have a right to be well born, but they cannot be if their mother lacks a clean home and clean sweet food."

"A man who knows well enough that unless his dairy cow be a good one he can expect no profit from her, often acts as though he believed that anything which grunts and squeals would make money for him out of its food; but the squealing and grunting are the main part of it with some hogs.

"Many of the troughs I see around the country seem to have been constructed to afford baths to the pigs, so deep and wide are they."

"There is only one way whereby a man can raise, with certainty and equity, the price of his butter. No single farmer and no combination of farmers can force the butter market up or down. But any man can raise himself from being a ten cent-a-pound man to being a twenty-five cent-a-pound man, by making and marketing the quality of butter for which people will pay twenty-five cents."

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