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butter-making ; but the effect is to prolong the 

 chances of life of that system of farm-dairies 

 which ought to be allowed to die out in England, 

 as in Denmark and many other countries, in 

 favour of co-operative dairies, where the butter 

 would be made in bulk from the milk collected 

 from a large number of farms. Unless specially 

 organized from the point of view of production 

 in considerable quantities — as is the case with 

 many of those on the Continent — travelling 

 dairies do not necessarily qualify for work in 

 those co-operative dairies which are the great 

 desiderata. It would, therefore, serve a more 

 useful purpose if the County Councils, instead 

 of incurring the expense of travelling dairies, 

 were to make grants for technical instruction in 

 dairy work to be given in co-operative dairies of 

 the Danish type. It might even be practicable, 

 in case of need, for two or three counties to join 

 together in setting up such a dairy for educa- 

 tional purposes, so as to promote the training, 

 not alone of ordinary dairy workers, but also of 

 dairy managers, for whom there will be a demand 

 as soon as the co-operative dairy system is more 

 generally spread throughout the country. Here, 

 again, the expense need not be great, because 

 the dairy set up ought soon to become practi- 

 cally, if not entirely, self-supporting. 



