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at intervals of from two to eight days, to the 

 consequent detriment of the butter produced. 



Worse still is the position to which the farmers 

 have been reduced by the industrial conditions in 

 Colonies which are becoming a dubious Paradise 

 for Workers but an undeniable Purgatory for 

 Employers. The "Rights of Labour" move- 

 ment has, it seems, affected country districts as 

 well as industrial centres, for the farmers say 

 they cannot afford to pay the rates of wages 

 imposed by the " labour boards," and they and 

 their families cannot stand the strain of doing all 

 the work themselves. " So it is," writes one 

 authority on the subject, " that we are drifting 

 more and more into the position of limiting our 

 summer production to the herds we can manage 

 without hired help." 



The path of the Australasian farmer is, there- 

 fore, far from being strewn entirely with roses. 

 But it is a much easier path for him to walk 

 along than it would have been had not Science 

 and Organization each stretched out to him a 

 friendly hand in the way I have here sought to 

 describe. 



