612 BOARD OF AGEICULTURE, 



or poor quality. It was traded at the country store for dry goods, 

 groceries, tobacco, horse pokes and other farm necessaries. Now we 

 have over 3,000 cheese factories, and possibly 500 creameries. We still 

 make a large amount of butter in farm dairies, but the quality is very 

 much improved. Some of the chief factors which have contributed to 

 the groAvth of Canadian dairying are: 



1. Our people are sprung from the stock of the best dairy countries 

 of the Old Land and have inherited a liking for dairying. This is essen- 

 tial for success. No man can succeed in the dairy business if he dislikes 

 It— if he hates cows and the bother of looking after milk. 



2. The development of the co-operative idea has promoted the growth 

 of the industry. We have factories operated on the joint stock company 

 plan and on the private plan. In the former, farmers own and manage 

 the factory. Where this is well done it is the most successful form of 

 operating the factory. In some cases, owing to jealousy, bad manage- 

 ment, or some other cause the factory passes into the hands of private 

 persons. 



3. A third factor is the excellent work done by the dairymen's asso- 

 ciation, of which we have two in my own province, which corresponds to 

 your State. I heard some one say something about a grant of $500 to the 

 Indiana State Dairy Association by the State Legislature. Our state 

 gives $8,000 to the associations, and the money is well expended in giving 

 instruction to butter makers and milk-producers. It brings back manifold 

 returns. 



4. The system of syndicating or grouping factories by which 20 or 30 

 factories are placed in charge of a competent instructor, who visits each 

 factory once a month, addresses meetings of patrons, or visits the farms 

 giving help Avhere needed, has been an excellent step in securing improved 

 quality of product. This method of giving instruction is being rapidly 

 extended— in fact the only limit is the number of suitable men who can 

 be got to act as instructors. 



5. The dairy schools, of Avliich there are three in our proA'ince, with 

 an attendance of about 300 annually, are doing an excellent work in sup- 

 plementing the instruction given at the factory. At the dairy schools a 

 thorough course in the theory and practice of dairying is given at a nom- 

 inal cost, to the students Avho attend. These schools are well equipped 

 with men and machinery. 



6. The Farmers' Institute, dairy meetings, etc., are bringing practical 

 information on dairy topics to the farmer's door. If the mountain will 

 not come to Mahomet, then Mahomet will go to the mountain. 



7. The publication of bulletins, reports, pamphlets, etc., relating to 

 dairying, also tends to spread the good news of dairying among the 

 people. All these agencies are being used for a proper development of 

 the Canadian dairy industry. 



