stock, it frees them from ticks and so keeps down 

 the spread of diseases. The cattle are driven into a 

 crush and from that to the tank, where they jump 

 into six feet of medicated water and swim to the far 

 end, whence they walk out and up a concrete floored 

 race where they drip and partially dry. Dipping 

 done we have work of one sort or another to do, 

 either butter or cheese to make, a house to build, a 

 fence to mend or any one of the things that 

 constantly need attention on a farm. 



About mid-day we knock o9f for lunch and 

 the work boys, who started work at 6-30, get an 

 hour off, and then work on till 5-30, when work for 

 the day is over for them. After tea, which we 

 have about 4 o'clock, we go to watch the milking 

 again. The calves of those cows that are milked in 

 the evening were separated and herded by them- 

 selves after the morning's milking was finished. 



MILKING- 



The sun sets about six and it is dark about half 

 an hour later, so we finish up our day with a spell 

 in the office before supper and then after a chat round 

 the log fire we turn in. 



Sunday is the one day of the week when there 

 is no work save for the milking, and as a rule we 

 go off to visit a neighbour or he spends the day 

 with us. We also do a bit of shooting that day if 

 the larder is empty. 



But, you will ask, how is the new comer to how to make 

 start? I should advise him first of all to decide ,\ start. 

 what line of work he means to take up, planting, 

 agriculture or dairying. If he has not decided this 

 let him spend a time visiting the different centres 

 and studying the life, and when he has made up 

 his mind, let him put in a year on the farm of 

 one of those who have spent years in studying the 

 local conditions that govern that particular line. A 

 year spent on a farm as a pupil will not by any 

 means be wasted, as the new comer will be able to 

 learn the language of the country, without which 

 he will be at the mercy of an interpreter, who is 

 not always a disinterested party. He will also see 

 the methods adopted out here, where conditions are 

 so different from those at home. The time and 



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