THE "BOARDERS"

Shannon News, 8 April 1927, Page 4

THE "BOARDERS"

At a meeting of farmers recently a speaker said that too many dairymen were squandering food and labour on bad cows, and therein lay an immense loss. He could not under, stand the mentality of any farmer .who went on milking and feeding cows which gave him 1301 b to 1501 b of butter-fat a year. They subjected V themselves to slavery—to collar work -. from dawn until uark. Farm work ■, .for them was drudgery of the worst ,' '.kind, and .youths grew discontented ' and their ambition was to go to the " cities. Why? Because farmers did ~ not adopt the very simple device of ' finding out the, good cow and the bad "."cow, of properly feeding and breeding irom the good cow and ruthlessly weeding out of the unprofitable ones.