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2he late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
" ' How can you here win the success which has been arrived at there ? 
I would try to put you on the right way, though a stranger to the 
country, whose knowledge of your soil and climate is but second-hand, can 
only speak in general terms. You have a climate, however, so moist that 
your grass is succulent — even too succulent, it may be, to ensure "a certain 
strength of quality in milk. Because your grass is luxuriant and the feed is 
sufiicient, or more than sufficient, for the stock, it does not follow that the cow 
should be kept on grass alone. You may indeed go on and feed your cows 
5is hitherto on grass alone, even in wet seasons, and make bad butter ; or you 
may buy more cows and get artificial food to make up for the diminished 
green keep per head; or you may get rid of some of your land and concentrate 
your cows on a smaller area, giving them artificial food as mentioned.' " 
He who follows the first-named plan is a muddler, going 
on as formerly ; the second must be a capitalist, and under- 
standing the business well ; the third, without much capital, 
has that comparatively rare quality, moral courage. This is 
the man who becomes an intensive farmer by conviction, the 
other becoming an intensive farmer by opportunity. He then 
discusses the whole question of dairy-farming, quoting France 
as well as Holland ; his points being that pasture land may 
pay ; that foreign dairying is so good because the dairy farmers 
there are anxious to acquire information and to act on skilled 
advice ; and that to enable the dairy farmers of the United 
Kingdom to improve their results, they must adopt a jjystem of 
marketing co-operation. 
The lecture delivered in Dublin, on " The Duties of a Farmer's 
Wife," is even brighter and more clever : — 
" ' To give you an idea of my subject,' he says, ' let us take a shawl and 
spread it on the floor : we see at once that it consists of two jmrts; the chief 
portion is the main body of the shawl, but it is surrounded by a fringe. A 
farm is like a shawl; it has its main body of duties, which are the province of 
the farmer ; but there is a fringe of dutieS' — the province of the farmer's wife.' " 
In France they say that there is no lucrative farm in which 
half at least of the merit is not directly due to the mistress of 
the house ; and in this Mr. Jenkins thoroughly agrees, notwith- 
standing that some people have a different opinion. "Only a 
month ago," he says, " I read the following editorial note in an 
English Agricultural newspaper : — ' Feminine activities are the 
most obstinately illogical of all natural phenomena.'" "Let 
us however try to find out the truth," — and straightway he 
takes the mistress to the dairy. " You have been lectured over 
and over again," he says, " on the necessity of cleanliness. 
Where do you begin to see its necessity? Is it in the condition 
of your own hands, or that of the cows' udder? or does it only 
begin with the milk-pail and other dairy implements ? How 
about bad smells? Do you keep bacon or cheese or strong 
smelling substances in the same room with the milk or cream 
