HOW THE DAIRYMAN LEARNT TO MAKE MONEY.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 35, 25 November 1893, Page 10

HOW THE DAIRYMAN LEARNT TO MAKE MONEY.

(A Hint for N.Z. Dairymen.)

Sib, —As you Lave done me the honour to insert several extracts that I have picked out on my tour round the world, I enclose you another that I think will he read, and not only read, but cut out, and laid to heart by a large section of your readers. I hope you will pardon the little advertising that I have worked in.— Yours, etc., W. H. Mathieson. Now when he had milked the kine and his wife had strained the milk into pots made of clay,

He sat himself down, and putting his hand into his pocket, hunted for a shekel. And behold he findeth none. And he said unto his wife, “ Why is it that we have so few shekels ? I work hard from early morn to dewy eve (in winter till frosted or frozen eve) but the shekels disappear as fast as I take them in and, I cannot get any to lay a!way for'a x’ainy day.” Then his wife answered and said unto him—“ I have been thinking much about these things lately, and I am afraid we are not walking in the

right dairy path, and one that leadeths to a pocketful of Why not take some good farm papers and read up on the subject ?”

And he taketh his wife’s advice and subscribeth for several papers. After a few months he beginneth to see where he had been making mistakes. !

And he sayeth to his wife : “Let us. ■work ourselves and do exactly as the; papers teach.” And they worked.

He selleth all of the kine that were? poor milkers and investeth some of 7 the shekels in a new dairy outfit, and had enough left to purchase several tons of good feed wherewith to feed the rest of the herd.

He resol v.eth to keep a winter and breedeth bis cows with that object in view.

He maketh granular butter and. wrappeth it up in parchment paper. He selleth his butter to persona-, living- afar otf in a large city, and he. getteth twice as much for it as he? used to get for hisbuttermilk-flavoux-ed butter.

He I’aises the heifer calves from his best kine, that he hreedeth to a bull whose name is recorded in the herdbook.

He groweth crops for soiling whens the drought comes, and he talketh about building a silo.

His wife sretteth the kinks out of her back while attending to the poi't—able creamery. His children become acquainted? with store clothes and go to school*, while his big dog churneth the butter-

He worketh not so many hours as heretofore, but the work he now does, tells.

When he now putteth his hand ini pocket he graspeth a lot of shekels. Then goeth . straightaway to Mathieson and gladdeneth his wife’s and. children’s hearts by buying a good buggy. He layeth by some shekels in a bank, so that when he getteth old hewill be provided for. His wife employeth a hired girl*, and findeth time to grow flowers. He improveth the farm and keepetht the house painted. Yea, verily, he becometh a model dairy man and so enlighteneth hist neighbours that they begin to catch on and be in it.—National StockmanU.S.A.

[Pardoned this time, but don’t do it again. —Editor S.C.]