126 AGRICULTURE 



" barn " gallon, which consists of seventeen 

 pints. The average price is is. id. per 

 " barn." 



Milk is bought by contract usually for 

 six or twelve months. 



The contracts are made at the end of 

 March, which, from the farmer's point of 

 view, is a very bad arrangement. At that 

 time of year milk is plentiful, and for fear 

 of having large quantities left on his hands 

 he often has to make contracts at a price 

 which does not even pay expenses, when 

 later on in the season milk becomes scarce. 

 To get the best return from his cows, the 

 farmer would do well to utilise the milk for 

 cheese-making during two or three months 

 in the year, say from the middle of April 

 to the end of June. He would then be 

 much better able to dictate his own terms 

 when he came to put his milk on the market, 

 and in the long run the monetary advantage 

 would quite outweigh the extra trouble 

 involved. 



