nimals are in prime
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ranch near Manhattan, Kansas, for the breeding of high grade Holsteins
and Short-horns. He will also keep on this ranch a choice herd of
pure-bred Holsteins for supplying the growing Western demand for this
very popular dairy stock.

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THE DAIRY.

Dairymen, Write for Your Paper.

LESSONS IN FINANCE FOR THE CREAMERY PATRON.[A]

Any business to be permanent must make reasonable returns for the
capital employed and give fair compensation for the labor bestowed upon
it, otherwise it will be abandoned, or if continued at all it will be
done under the protest of economic law. In addition to the ordinary
circumstances attaching to business enterprise, the creamery business is
essentially and peculiarly co-operative. It thrives with the thrift of
all concerned--owner and patrons. It fails only with loss to all. The
conditions of success, therefore, to the patrons are included in the
conditions of success to the creamery, and vice versa.

The object of this paper is to suggest some of these conditions and some
of the instances of violation of them.

It is hardly necessary to discuss the case in which peculiarity of soil
or climate, the greater profitableness of some other kind of industry,
or other reason, would so restrict the size and number of dairy