PREFACE. 



It was intended by the Author to publish an exhaus- 

 tive practical work on Dairying. But his time was so 

 occupied by other matters that he was compelled to aban- 

 don the idea. Much of the following pages was written 

 while traveling, the intervals of waiting at hotels and rail- 

 road stations being devoted to this work. But on reperus- 

 ing the chapters as they appeared in the columns of the 

 FARMER AND DAIRYMAN, and making slight additions, he 

 has concluded to give them to the Dairy Public in their 

 present form, believing that they may be of some assist- 

 ance to the tyro, and perhaps afford a hint, here and there, 

 to the dairyman of more experience who wishes to keep 

 abreast of his fellows in the march of progress. This 



