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do without his carefully bred animals, without his Shorthorns, 

 or grade Shorthorns, his Ayrshires, Devons or Jerseys, or 

 crosses effected between these breeds ? Without them, how- 

 ever hard he might labor, we fear his efforts as a dairyman, 

 would be attended with little success. 



In relation to the management of dairy stock, that indeed 

 has undergone a decided change. The farmer of to-day, who 

 is feeding his herds as his fathers did, is either an unmitigated 

 conservative, ignoring modern discoveries, or else is an inactive, 

 shiftless man, with hardly sufficient life and enterprise to care 

 for his faithful herds, and much less to make improvement in 

 his treatment of them, and so not only doing a valuable service 

 to them, but materially benefiting himself. The management 

 of dairy stock has been so much improved within the last 

 twenty-five years, that it holds an important place in its effect 

 on the development of dairy industry in this country ; in fact, 

 we doubt if there has been another influence more potent in its 

 growth than that of the improved management of the dairy 

 cow. 



2d. The manufacture and marketing of dairy products as 

 influencing the growth of the dairy. The improved methods 

 of manufacturing butter and cheese, and the facts and discov- 

 eries wrought out in relation to the same, have all played their 

 special parts. The introduction of the cheese factory, one of 

 the greatest blessings to the farmer and his family, has no 

 doubt greatly influenced the development of this branch of 

 dairy farming, while the improved methods of gathering cream 

 and churning the same, in a measure lightening the labor of 

 the dairyman and increasing his profits, have done much to 

 advance the growth of this department of the dairy. As to 

 the facilities of marketing dairy products, only a word need be 

 said. They, of course, have held the same relation to the 

 development of this interest as to every other interest in the 

 country. The great facilities of travel, coming as they do to 

 almost every farmer's door, have affected this calling as much 

 as any other in the land. 



8d. The last and most important cause to which we credit 

 the rapid development of the dairying interest in this State, is 

 the increase of population, which has created a greater demand 

 for dairy products. If the demand for these increase two- 



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