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is much less valuable than tliat from store-fed 

 oxen. Where cheese is made, and the whey is 

 fed on the farm, the loss is doubtless less, and it 

 is less still where butter only is sold, and the 

 skim milk is used on the farm. ■■ 



However, even on a small but good dairy farm 

 of, say, 100 acres, vrith 50 acres of arable land, 

 at least onc-sisith more cows could be kept than 

 upon an entirely grass farm. In addition, a 

 variety of foods could bo r-rovidcd which would 

 be productive of a marked increase in the supply 

 of the milk from the herd kept. The pigs, too, 

 ATould be kept cheaper; and some help vrould be 

 given to the poultry, the extra cost of labour, of 

 horseiies]!, and implements being far more than 

 covered bv the increased returns.! Tariff reform, 

 would, by assisting the increase of arable land, 

 benefit the farmer, labourer, and nation. 



* Dr. Frcam, B.^e.,in '* E'en!e7tfs of A;,ricvl/i/re," j'ichIit<Jicd 

 vvder He uv^-jictf vf He Ih'^jal AuricnUvrnl Cocieir. 



+ Professor J. Long, in 'Hit Dairy I'vim, pllb]i^l tu by 

 Collin? tJc (<>., Glasgnv.-. 



