190 FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



To invite farmers to extend this latter system with a 

 view to increasing milk production is to invite them 

 to enter the bankruptcy court. The system is not 

 sufficiently intensive, and the labour involved is not 

 sufficiently divided throughout the year. Further- 

 more, the crops grown fail to provide a sufficiency of 

 albuminous foods, without which a farmer, no matter 

 how great the area of corn and roots he may have, is 

 bound to buy albuminous cakes and meals in order to 

 balance the home-grown food. 



CAUSE OF HIGH MILK PRICES 



The real cause of the present high price of milk is 

 due to the dependency of the dairy farmer on foreign 

 cakes and meals, and because of the high cost of the 

 latter, on the average dairy farm, no greater profit is 

 being made now than was obtained in pre-war times. 

 As to the matter of markets in connection with a rota- 

 tion, this is not anything like the important factor it 

 used to be. In these quick transit days, we have less 

 trouble shipping produce 200 or 300 miles than our 

 forefathers had in taking it 10 or 20. To-day, so well 

 organised are our transit facilities that the millhand of 

 Rradford or Leeds may drink their early breakfast 

 tea " coloured " with milk shipped over night from 

 the neighbourhood of Relfast, or the fair resident of 

 Mayfair may have cream on her afternoon tea table, 

 which 36 hours before had not been drawn from the 

 udder of a cow grazing in the golden vale of Limerick 

 or on a Kerry hill. 



POSSIBILITIES OF IRISH DAIRYING 



Very fortunately, for the British farmer, his Irish 

 contemporary has not yet realised the possibilities for 



