SYSTEMS OF FARMING loi 



horse-breeding, otherwise it is a v€r.y prfeca'rious' 

 calling to follow. The breeding oj cart Jbprses 

 is safer, but it is better treated as a sidc' line4o 

 one's ordinary farming, by the average man, 

 than as a system in itself. 



Dairy-farming is doubtless the best system 

 for the man of limited means, as it is a ready 

 money business as compared with others, and 

 so extra capital to carry on till receipts are 

 coming in is not so necessary. As regards the 

 three kinds of dairy-farming, namely, selling 

 the milk whole, butter-making and cheese- 

 making, the first involves less labour and no 

 heavy outlay in dairy plant, and generally 

 speaking is somewhat more profitable. A 

 dairy farm consists largely of grass, half of 

 which is used for summer grazing and the other 

 half for growing hay for the cows' winter food, 

 which is further supplemented by roots and 

 oats grown on a small portion of arable, which 

 also provides forage for ''soiling" the cows in 

 late summer when the pastures fail. 



A milk-selling farm of, say, 200 acres, 

 would carry a breeding herd of about fifty cows, 

 and ten heifer calves would be set aside each 

 year to replace old ones in the herd. Pigs on 



