DAIRYMEN AND DUFFERS.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 33, 10 November 1894, Page 11

DAIRYMEN AND DUFFERS.

Under this heading an exchange thus discourses :—The duffer is the man who “ trusts to Providence,” and fails to provide food for his cows ; who keeps anything that has horns at one end, tail at the other, and udder beneath ; who never takes note whether his cow gives him 1001 b or 3501 b of butter per year; who thinks it more profitable to make his wife and daughters muddle and muck over the milk at home than to send it to the factory ; who uses three gallons of milk and all the women folks’ time to make a pound of butter, which perhaps brings him a shilling, when the same milk would bring him as much money, with a possible “ div.” or bonus, and save all their labour ; who thinks that the factory is “ not wanted,” and fails to see that without the factory system all the butter made would have to be kept in the country, and that this would certainly reduce dairying to its lowest possible condition. The dairyman is just the antithesis of c the duffer, and tries his level best to support the factory, to improve the standard of his cows, to feed them well, and to keep the factory in full work all the year round.