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Butter is not the only })roduct of the 

 creameries. Eggs are also marketed, and a 

 irood deal of cream is sent even as far afield as 

 London, though the dairy companies take 

 good care not to inform their customers that 

 the cream they are buying has come by steamer 

 as well as by rail. 



Milk too is sent to London in the winter, 

 and if the dairy industry were thoroughly 

 organised, I am informed that the whole of 

 Liverpool and Manchester could be supplied 

 daily with milk from Ireland. 



In spite of the comparative success of the 

 Agricultural Organisation Societies, education 

 has still to do its work, even among the more 

 prosperous of the dairy farmers in the south. 

 It might be more effectively shown how 

 farmers could keep a larger number of cows 

 on their small holdings. 



Many farmers had to be thoroughly con- 

 vinced that it would pay them to plough grass- 

 land before they would put their hand to the 

 modern plough. It was all very well, they 

 said, to talk about ploughing the poor, hungry 

 soil of Connaught, but when it came to the 

 rich pastures of Limerick it was another thing. 

 They were probably right had they kept to 



