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obligatory if necessary, as well as by the stamping of our products, we 

 shall shortly have to dread the over-supply of the markets to which 

 we now consign our goods. 



There is also tb winter fresh butter business, for which we have, in 

 our large towns, a sale that we are far from exploiting as we might 

 do. In this, we should imitate a country as cold as ours, Den- 

 mark, which sends to England yearly $24,000,000 worth of but- 

 ter. There the cows calve in September and October, so their great- 

 est yield of milk is in winter. 



Green Fodder. 



But if dairying is to be carried on ^reen fodder-crops must be grown. 

 That is the real secret of dairyinq ! Let the field be well 

 manured and ploughed in the fall, and see that it be extensive 

 enough to furnish a good supply of food in aid of the pastures during 

 the summer droughts. The cows will then go on milking, and will 

 be kept so throughout the autumn until they go into winter quart- 

 ers ; and here, again, there must be a provision of green meat for the 

 winter months. The field, to fill the silo, or the bay of the barn in 

 layers alternately with straw, besides furnishing the summer's 

 food, must be pretty large. Thus, the cows will be kept in milk for 

 ten months ; they will always be in good condition, whether to go 

 into winter quarters or to go out to grass in spring. 



People ought to bear in mind that when a cow is once checked in her 

 yield of milk it is very difficult, if not impossible, to restore the flow. 



Colonisation. 



Alongside of this word I shall place the word re-peopling ; the re- 

 peopling of our old parishes. In some of these, desertion has passed 

 like a tornado, a fire, leaving everywhere a void. Numbers of houses 

 are locked up, under the care of a neighbor. If he thinks fit, which 

 seldom happens, he will get something out of the farm, to the profit 

 of the absent one. 



" How many vacant farms are there in your parish ?" asked I of a 

 good parish priest, who was doing his best to get up a farmers' club. 

 " From thirty to forty," replied he, with a sigh. " And the parishion- 

 ers ?" " Grone to the large towns!" , 



Must not we fill up these sad voids while we are making such in- 

 roads into the virgin forest ? 



