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to do much better work than farmers who 

 are compelled to look at every pound they 

 spend. There is probably something in the 

 argument, but not much that is worth 

 defending. A man who depends entirely 

 for his livelihood upon the produce of his 

 stock, and who makes a point of selecting 

 them himself, should, and does, stand in 

 a better position than Lord Rothschild, who 

 has also done pioneer work in the same direc- 

 tion, inasmuch as this gentleman, like Dr 

 Watney, is practically compelled to leave the 

 selection of his cows in the hands of an 

 employee, whose power of securing excep- 

 tional stock, apart from the fact that he is 

 better able to pay the price, is no greater 

 than that of the small holder, who is 

 equally able to go from market to market 

 or farm to farm in search of the cattle he 

 needs. 



Reference may now be made to the impor- 

 tance of knowledge of the system of cultiva- 

 tion of those crops which are grown 

 upon the farm to feed the cows. 

 We have suggested that the minimum cost 

 of feeding a full-sized dairy cow is £13 a year; 

 but the reader will not assume that the whole 

 of this sum is spent in purchased foods. A 



