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WSoNs DAIRYxN's AmocunTox. 
SUCCESSFUL DAIRY FARMING IS DEPENDENT ON 
THE THREE R's, R's, R's-RICH THINKING, RICH 
SOIL AND RICH FEEDING. 
Hon. RAR  BxiTH, Sheboygan Falls, Wi. 
COMMON SENSE IN DAIRY FARMING. 
It is difficult in this, inventive age, to construct a sentence 
to which different meaning may not attach. If we speak of 
an incident where a man exercised good judgment, we say 
he used common sense. If we speak of common lumber, it 
is understood to mean a poor quality. The legislature of 
New York enacted a law that it was a crime to sell fraudu- 
lent butter; or a substitute for genuine butter; but the 
court of appeals of New York said that to sell 
fraudulent butter as a substitute was no crime, but to sell 
imitation butter for genuine butter was a crime; although 
they knew, and everybody knows, that the substitute was a 
fraudulent imitation of butter, and could only be sold to the 
consumer by gross deception, which is a crime. Therefore 
I will not attempt to define the meaning of common sense 
in dairy farming; but simplyr describe two systems of dairy 
farming, and you can decide to which system common sense 
ought to apply. About fourteen years ago I was engaged in 
dairy farming with 45 cows on 200 acres of land, keeping 
them as most dairymen did at that time, and many do still, 
mostly on pasture grass in summer, and on hay in winter. 
The cows came in about the first of ApriL The milk was 
made into cheese in the summer and a very little butter in 
the fail, and the cows dried off on the approach of cold 
weather; many of them were dry three or more months of 
the year. 
No adequate provision was made for watering the cows in 
the barn yard during the winter, and frequently the water 
in the shallow wells would fail. The cows then had to be 
driven one mile to the river, where holes in the ice were cut 
and the cows had to get down on their knees to drink ice 
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