674 . HOW TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



of butler, which was sold at fort^'-seven cents per pouhd. Our 

 correspondent adds : " I was not trying to beat any one, but only 

 testing the character of the Devon cows as compared with others 

 I had on hand. I think I could better this by a good many 

 pounds should I make it my study." 



Carrying Milk. — In France, milk is packed in small tin cans, 

 easily moved b}' one man, and by a simple contrivance the stopper 

 screws close down upon the contents of each can, so the motion 

 of the railway cannot chui'n the milk in transitu. The cans are 

 then placed in covered wagons, and in summer are wrapped in 

 cloths, which are watered from time to time so as to piomote cool- 

 ness by evaporation. The result of this care, which costs but 

 little, is that the milk supply of Paris is proverbially excellent. 



Agricultural Fairs were intended to be and are a good thing 

 when properly conducted, but the prominence now given to fast 

 horses and trotting is disgusting, and injurious to the interests 

 of agriculture. Read the following : 



What proportion the trotting horses bear to the number of 

 horses, or what their proportional value may be, I am unin- 

 formed. Their value is considerable, I am aware, but that their 

 raising and training is proportionally pecuniarily advantageous 

 to the farmer I am unprepared to believe, or that the " horse 

 trot" at our agricultural fairs is of greater advantage to the 

 farmer than all other interests combined, I am equally unpre- 

 pared to admit. 



For farm purposes, a somewhat different style of horse is 

 needed, as also for all general purposes, from the t'rotting horse. 

 Yet as there is a taste and demand, which will be supplied, for 

 trotting and fast horses, farmers will endeavor to breed those 

 having that quality to recommend them, and with this enterprise 

 I have no fault to find, neither would I desire to be understood 

 as finding fault with the agricultural society or its managers 

 for olieriug premiums in the aggregate greater for trotting 

 horses than for all other interests, for they have that privilege ; 

 l)ut, as the trotting horse interest is of minor importance to agri- 

 culturists, a corresponding value ought to be attached to it by 

 our agricultural societies. 



If we are to have the inevital)le "horse trot," let us have that 

 as a distinct exhibition, not mix it up with exhibitions of farm; 

 stock pro|)er and products. 



As to the advantage to the farmer of breeding fast horses, with 

 that object only in view, I might bring the expressed opinion of 

 m:iny eminent agriculturists and writers; but it is unnecessary^ 

 and 1 refrain, believing that the intelligence of the farm commu- 

 nity will eventually regulate this matter, by Holding fairs devote* 

 'o the true interests of agriculture. ' W. H. White. 



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