FIFTY YEARS OF A SHOWMAN'S LIFE 



little opportunities for kindly courtesies and for 

 an interchange of experiences. There is a levelling 

 tendency in hard work when the workers stand 

 side by side on a footing of equality and are 

 actuated by the same desire to master an art. 

 A sympathy may thus be created between sections 

 of the community which do not ordinarily come 

 into such contact, ending probably in a better 

 understanding of the nature of each. A mistress 

 may leave the work of her dairy to others to carry 

 out, but she can exercise a much better control 

 over it, and be a much more efficient and, at 

 the same time, considerate critic when she has 

 learnt the " how " and the " why " in a practical 

 school, where she has been brought face to face 

 with some of the incidental difficulties. So, 

 although the primary object of the school was to 

 impart instruction to those who were actually 

 engaged, or were about to engage, in the business 

 of dairying and none of these were elbowed out 

 to make room for any others the society welcomed 

 all comers actuated by a thirst for knowledge, 

 and has seen no reason to regret a cosmopolitan 

 policy in this respect The greater interest those 

 outside the actual sphere of farming can be 

 induced to take in agricultural pursuits, and the 

 fuller knowledge they have of them, the more will 

 they appreciate the farmer's trials, and the less 

 likely are they to misunderstand his motives. 



Until the establishment of the experimental 

 and research section of the Society's Cheese 

 School little had been done in this country 

 towards investigating the manufacture of cheese 

 from a scientific point of view. While good 



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