DAIEY MANAGEMENT AND PEOFITS. 



Dairymaid — Farmer's "Wife— Dairy Building— Churning — Kecipe 

 for Turnip Flavour of Cream — Profit of a Cow— Stubble Butter 

 — Milking — Fattening Calves — Rearing — Age to breed — Quality 

 of Milk — Calving in May — London Milkmen — Kicking Cows — 

 Buy from poorer Land. 



Chiefest of all considerations, your dairy cannot 

 have too even a temperature. The dairy-woman 

 cannot be too careful, or too clean ; or, if possible, 

 too good-tempered. The legend being, that to be 

 cleanly you must needs be cross. The best we ever 

 had, as long as the dairy was beneath our own roof, 

 was a bright, rosy-cheeked girl — fond as a duck of 

 splashing in spring water — to whose cheerful sum- 

 mons the cows seemed glad to yield their milk ; and 

 whose full arm amply testified to the energy with 

 which she would dash out against the marble plate, 

 after many a revising, those tiny, treacherous glo- 

 bules of water which, allowed to remain, give 

 inevitably a rancid flavour to the tub. 



The farmer's wife in Cheshire is the most im- 

 portant personage upon the farm. The dairy ma- 

 nagement is " one of the most ticklish parts of a 

 farmer's business," wrote Young ; " either a very 

 diligent and industrious wife, who sees minutely to 



