72 AGRICULTURE 



will be inserted in the problem of " How to 

 ameliorate the conditions of Rural Life." 



The object of this paper is to show how 

 this may be forwarded by means of dairying, 

 which is nowadays one of the most im- 

 portant branches of farm life ; indeed many 

 of our farmers look to it to enable them to 

 realise a profit on their land. There is no 

 one connected with agriculture who is not 

 heartily sick of hearing that " dairy farming 

 does not pay," "we cannot compete with the 

 foreigner," and so forth, until by dint of 

 much telling it is accepted as truth. To 

 make dairy work pay, it is necessary to have 

 an intimate knowledge of the subject, prac- 

 tically and theoretically (above all practically), 

 and also to be prepared to work one's self, 

 thoroughly believing that " the master's foot 

 manures the land," in a way that farmyard 

 and artificial manures will never do. 



In these days of keen competition and low 

 prices there is no margin for waste or 

 extravagance of any kind, the most minute 



