ON AGRICULTURE TO CANADA 



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every other agricultural reform the Government is the main help 

 and guide. It is not improbable that this rising demand for cattle 

 of a good milking strain will make itself felt in Scotland and will 

 stimulate the milk record movement among the Ayrshire men. 

 The first call, however, will be on Canadian breeders, and they are 

 busy preparing for it. A glance at an extract from the rules of the 

 " Canadian Ayrshire Record of Performance," shows what is being 

 aimed at. All cows must equal or excel the records specified 

 below : — 



There is more needed, however, than a good milking strain. It is 

 the " meat in the mou' mak's a good milk coo," as we say ; and there 

 is as much in the feeding as in the breeding. So far as our necessarily 

 limited observations bore, the Canadian cow is not over fed on the 

 summer pastures, and the winter fare, as it was told to us, is not 

 likely to interfere with her milking capabilities, through making 

 her too fat. Indeed, to speak the truth, a conjecture might be 

 hazarded that if the Canadian dairymen had to pay our rents and 

 work under our restrictions, they would either have to make their 

 cows give 200 gallons more or else quit the business. A 500 gallon 

 record is not beyond any one's reach even in Canada. 



Cheese Factories and Creameries 



A very large proportion of the milk produced in the Dominion 

 goes either to the factories to be made into cheese or to the creameries 

 to be made into butter. These institutions are numerous as the 

 following table shows : — 



Total 



2.596 838 



870 



51 



4,355 



They may be divided into three classes, according as they are worked 

 and owned by private persons, by Co-operative Societies, or by such 



