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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 19, 30 July 1889, Page 2

Several of our best dairy farmers are likely to sell off their milch cows this year and invest their capital in sheep. It has been found that while the work on a dairy farm is hard and continuous, the profits are not at all commensurate with the capital and labor employed ; while in the case of sheep, the returns are certain with a rising market, owing to the impetus given by the frozen meat export trade; also much of the time which would otherwise be unprofitably expended in butter making can be utilised in useful farm works. Sheepfarming on sections of a couple of hundred acres or upwards, has proved remarkably profitable in this district, especially where the paddocks are well grassed and fenced, and we do not know a single exception to this rule. Of course it must be understood that in nearly every instance other descriptions of stock are raised so as to have small quantities or numbers for sale at stated periods during the year "to keep the pot boiling." We understand the Government purpose importing " dairy experts " from Home to teach our " experts " how to make butter. We can assure the Government that our local dairyman can do without them, e -pecially as the other " experts" were such rank failures.