detected. Again, unless a proper place has been built for keeping 

 the milk or cream the probabilities are that taints of many kinds 

 will be absorbed by the cream while waiting for churning ; while 

 at the factory suitable arrangements are made for the care of the 

 cream from the time it comes in to the factory until it is packed 

 ready for the market in the form of butter. 



Much discussion has arisen at times as to the comparative 

 merit of hrst-class home-made butter and first-class factory. All 

 things considered, the home-made butter will probably satisfy the 

 taste of a connoisseur better than the factory, for the reason that 

 more delicate flavors are to be found in it at times. All the cattle 

 supplying milk on the farm are probably grazing on the same 

 pasture, and if it be rich in clover or particular kinds of grasses 

 which give a flavor to butter, it will be much more distinct than 

 where the milk is mixed up with that ot other cattle 

 that are on different pastures. But however the home-made 

 butter may at times surpass the factory, it can never compete 

 with it for regular and uniform quality. Under the old system a 

 considerable amount of skill was required to make passable butter, 

 and as no rules were laid down that people could go by, every one 

 was a law unto him or herself, and this deterred very many from 

 going into dairying, not knowing how to make good butter, and not 

 having the means of learning at their disposal. A considerable 

 amount of expense is required under the home system, as it is not 

 much use trying to make good butter without having a convenient 

 dairy and the requisite dairy utensils. 



But here comes in the great advantage of the modern method. 

 Anyone with ordinary common sense can start dairying with a fair 

 chance of doing well at it. The milking is perhaps the hardest 

 work attached to it, and even that after some practice becomes 

 comparatively easy. With a factory near at hand, all the dairy 

 work can be done with a few milk tins and milking buckets. Many 

 persons who have been brought up in the towns, and who have 

 longed to go out into the country, have been deterred therefrom on 

 account of not knowing anything about farming. If they can only 

 secure a piece of fairly good grass country they need not fear to 

 commence dairying with a few cows, and as they gain experience 

 with the lew they can be improving their land and increasing their 

 herds at the same time, and feel assured of at least a good living ;md 

 a healthy life. It opens up the way for those to go on to the land 

 who could never have done so before, because with a few cows to 

 start with they have an assured income that will keep the house 

 going, while it leaves time for them to improve their land or grow 

 other crops, the returns of which will be so much clear profit. In 

 the other colonies to-day there are hundreds on the land doing well 

 notwithstanding the bad" times the agricultural depression and low 

 prices who, were it not for dairying, would to-day be simply 



