DAIRY FARMERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 132, 3 December 1897, Page 2

DAIRY FARMERS.

lover of animals, a keen observer of their habits and pecnliarities, and bis invariable rule should be to treat them with kindness. The business of conducting a dairy hai as many peculiarities of its own as has orchard management, and no one will make a success of it who carries out the work in a perfunctory manner.

O There is a firmly-rooted idea in the minds or a large number of people tbat any man who lacks the ability to succeed as a merchant or member of a learned profession can become a farmer and make a success of tbe callicig. As a matter of fact, however, there is no profession or business in which a wider range of knowledge can be applied, or tbat requires better business methods than fttrmiug. Take, for example, dairying, to which so much attention is now being given. It would be jast &■ absurd to expect every man to. make a successful lawyer or merchant as it would be to think tbat all wbo embrace the calling at« qualified to saoceed as dairymen Dairying (says the Aaatcalasia'n; is a business that requires constant and regular attention, and it means doing a particular thiny twice every day for 365 daya a year. The cows hare to b~ milked on Sundays and holidays as well aa oa aay other day, consequently the man who bas charge of a dairy uerd should be one wbo likes employment of tue most regular kjud. lie should be a