THE EXTENSION OF PASTUEES. 7 



Thus the whole of the milk, minus the fat, is retained for the 

 benefit of the farmer and his labourers, whereas, when sent to a 

 factory, the separated milk is lost. From repeated tests I have 

 been able to assure myself that a separator will produce one- 

 thiid more cream from a given quantity of milk than can be 

 obtained in the ordinary way by skimming, so that the cost of 

 the machine- is quickly saved. And in the cream alone there is 

 a portable and saleable commodity, when it is not required for 

 butter-making. 



Condensed milk may perhaps be profitably manufactured in 

 this country, but it can scarcely be to the interest of the farmer 

 to encourage an industry which will place him in competition 

 with the whole world. He had better devote attention to the 

 more dehcate products of milk, which sufier from long transport. 



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. The manufacture of marketable commodities, 

 such as butter and soft cheese, will prove of especial service in 

 districts that are too remote from populous centres to enable 

 the milk trade to be carried on at aU 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, and especially of temporary pastures, will be 

 this facihty of producing meat and milk with advantage to the 

 grazier as well as to the consumer. 



