6 PEEMANENT AND TEMPOEAEY PASTUEES. 



The taste for fancy cheese has greatly developed in recent 

 years, and there is no reason why English agriculturists should 

 not compete successfully in the production of some of the more 

 perishable kinds, which ill bear transit. The manufacture of 

 marketable commodities, such as butter, cheese, and condensed 

 milk, will prove of especial service in those districts that are too 

 remote from populous centres to enable the milk trade to be 

 carried on at all times with profit. 



Beef and mutton can be more cheaply fatted, and milk more 

 cheaply produced, on a farm of which one-half or two-thirds is in 

 grass than on arable land alone. It may not be possible to fatten 

 so many beasts or sheep per acre as when stall-fed on arable 

 produce ; but the point now under consideration is farming at a 

 profit, and I believe that one of the most potent factors in the 

 increase of pastures during the next decade wiU be tliis facility of 

 producing meat and milk with advantage to the grazier as well as 

 to the consumer. 



