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English trade the year round. Co-operative creameries are doing much 

 to aid in this respect. Still, the majority of farmers persist in the 

 "one-third year dairying" method. Tliere are some good dairymen, 

 yet the poor ones do not learn to profit by these examples and each year 

 the pastures are consumed with but comparatively small profit. Many 

 Irish dairymen, like so many American dairymen, do things the easiest 

 way, and in consequence reap the small end of the profit. 



Irish laborer's cottage. 



Notwithstanding the bad practices followed, Ireland has 800 cream- 

 eries and exports about 140,000,000 pounds of butter a year, which is 

 valued at over $30,000,000. If Ireland could be awakened to her natural 

 advantages, breed efficient dairy cows and feed and care for them 

 properly, she could easily be a great dairy country. Denmark — only 

 one-third the size, and lacking the natural advantages of soil and 

 climate, — exports over twice as much butter. 



Irish cow market, Dublin. 



