Tlie late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
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or butter? " " In Ireland," he exclaims, " I may be forgiven for 
saying that there is nothing so fatal to the making of good 
butter as the neighbourhood of the cleanest pig in the world, 
unless, indeed, it is that of the dirtiest." 
After milking comes the butter-making and the marketing : — 
" Make it up in such a way that it will captivate the eye ; good 
looks, as every woman knows, count for a great deal with men." 
Here, again, is a happy thought : — 
" You know the Church calendar and its ' golden number ; ' if you refer to 
your prayer-book you will find a more or less recondite means of finding out 
when Easter Sunday comes by means of a golden number. In butter-making 
the golden number does not vary so much as that mystical clerical numeral, 
but it is still liable to variation on account of temperature, ripeness of cream, 
and so forth. The golden number in butter-making, I consider to be 60 ; 
:hat is, 60 degrees of temperature for the cream, and 60 revolutions of the 
iandle of the churn per minute.' " 
Then he describes the manner in which a Danish wife 
has to a great extent made the fortune of her husband by the 
management of her dairy. — Poultry-keeping is referred to after 
dairying, and there is no better chapter on that subject than the 
six pages in which poultry management is described : — 
" There is an old story of a French General who insisted on his 
soldiers changing their shirts ; he was told they had but one apiece ; then 
said he, let them change among themselves. On the same principle, if yon 
cannot afford to buy cockerels of improved strain, make the best exchange you 
can with your neighbours, for new blood is essential." 
Rabbit-keeping — bee-keeping — gardening — all in succession 
are described ; cooking and bread-baking receive attention. 
The education of the children is the last and most important of 
them all ; and the garden and the bee, and the poultry and the 
rabbits, help also that. The sowing of the seed, the gradual 
growth of the plant, have their obvious applications : " As ye 
sow so also shall ye reap " — the necessity of making provision 
for the future — all these subjects have their lessons in the 
garden. 
"And the cultivation of flowers fosters that appreciation of the beautiful 
without which our lives would be dull indeed. — Farmers have had hard times 
of late years, but by a proper development of the Agricultural fringe I feel 
sure that we may sometimes again be able, by slightly changing the familiar 
ditty, to record that — 
' Merrily danced the farmer's wife. 
And merrily danced the farmer.' " 
Dairy Educatiox is another of the subjects on which Mr. 
Jenkins has more than once written and spoken. At the 
Gloucester Dairy Conference in 1882 a paper on " Dairy 
Schools" was read by him, in which, as usual, England is 
