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n causes the sun to shine and the rain to 



iut Man sends the 



1 gives himself no further trouble about them, 

 which woi: 1 four times the profit 



fodder crops 

 The following v. of farming may be 



: : 

 i.l .>i. The principal product sold, 



sale of milk, is butter. Dairying 



d on in th< re counties of 



Mu in Cork, Limerick and Tip- 



per it also in Ulster. Butter-making 



ried on to a large extent in steam 



the number of which is 609 and the 



production 479,000 cwt. Amongst them there 



n 1900 236 co-operative dairies, with 



mbers. T reduced 13! million 



Ib. of butter to the value of 703,826 



^.' The dair tem has prospered 



greatly through the co-operative movement. As, 



however, stall-feeding, and the growing of fodder 



requisite thereto, are only carried on to a slight 



extent, the winter production of butter, when 



the prices are highest, is not nearly as large 



should be possible. 



The farms which devote themselves to meat- 

 production may be divided into three classes: 



eland, Agric. and Ind.," pp. 220 ft sty. [In 1904, 

 according to the Report of the I. A. O. Soc. (or that year, 

 , ,'S co-operative creameries, producing over 20 

 million Ib. of butter. Trans/.] 



