78 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



guess, but has often come under my own observation, and it is, in 

 truth, where the pay comes in. 



Dairying, like all other farming, is subject to close competition, 

 and the accepted law of the "survival of the fittest," applies to it as 

 to all other progressive things, and to no branch of it more than to 

 the cow ; therefore we can only afford to keep the best. The market 

 now seems to demand new butter, in lu'nps and cake-», in cold 

 weather and hot. Even dog-days give no respite and no release 

 from the demands of the best paying custome^rs, and from no class 

 of cows can it be furnished to satisfaction except the Jerseys. It 

 ma}' possibly be made with others, by the aid of ice, hnt by the 

 time it gets to market it will hardly be presentable to the fa-tidious 

 city customer. If one has a herd of Jerseys, he need have no fears, 

 and he can keep the trade both summer and winter, and that is one 

 secret of a good price. 



now I MAKE PRIZE BUTTER. 

 By Mrs. Mary L. RoiiBiNS, Wintlirop. 



It may appear that the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, in 

 his interest in this specialty — dairying — has made a mistake in 

 assigning this text to me — "How I Make Prize Butter." It 

 seems quite presumptuous to present my own individual practices 

 and methods to this convention, as I have no special appliances or 

 modern improvements, and ''nothing new under tlie sun" in my 

 dairy operations. Since it has been demonstrated tbat no farming 

 industry makes the returns that dairying does, and since it has been 

 verified in this nineteenth century that "■Man cannot live by bread 

 alone." it is but natural that qut'Slions and discussions should arise 

 as to the best ways and means to be employed to bring about and 

 produce the best results. I do njt aspire to be a teacher in this 

 school. I am just a scholar, and onl}- an A B C dairyman. In 

 learning the Alpha I have found there is no Omega. The primary 

 lessons may be learned. sometim<^s a reputation earned, but tins is 

 but the dawn of the butter era with us. The time never comes 

 when we can vauntingly exclaim as Ciesar did in his triumphs, 

 *'veni, vidi, vici," for there are difficulties to be overcome, other 

 heigliTs to be reached, and something new continually to be learned. 



