80 THE STATE AS FARMER 



as we can in one dairy which treats the 

 milk from the group ? Remember we are 

 intent on a much larger yield from our present 

 farms. Can we for one moment believe 

 that capital will spring up and an army of 

 cheese-makers arise in the separate farmsteads 

 that have been ignoring everything but the 

 summer grass ? If we can get milk from 

 them as well as beef, we shall have to do the 

 dairy work ourselves and gradually coax 

 the farmer into better farming habits, a 

 larger, better paid labourers' list, and higher 

 class stock. 



The value of poultry in our national food 

 supply is so great that it would be a most 

 cheering fact if in each of the areas which 

 we are considering as units a really scientific 

 effort were made to organise the production 

 of poultry as well as eggs. The fattening at 

 some centre would enable this organisation 

 to be undertaken in such a way that turkeys, 

 geese, ducks, and fowls would reach the 

 consumer in a regular stream. But the 

 matter could only be successfully carried 

 through if the valley took up the production 



