WHY DAIRYING PAYS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 September 1907, Page 3

WHY DAIRYING PAYS.

1. It takes less fertility out of the soil than any other form of agriculture, and hence it is useful in following a well-regulated system of rotation. 2. It can be combined readily with other forms of agriculture or horticulture.

3. The dairy provides in winter a quantity of stable manure in which the straw from the barn is profitably utilised. °

4. The by-products from -;he cow, skim milk, whey, and buttermilk, are a source of income ill raising pigs and calves. 5. Dairying gives constant and regular employment of a light character to every member of a farmer's family. 0. Dairying inculcates habits of "punctuality, industry, cleanliness, and thrift on a farm. 7 Cheese and butter are condensed products, and the cost of carriage in comparison with thMr value, V less than that of any farm product 8. The demand for good butter and cheese on the world's markets is ununited, and so long as the quality is maintained, an all-round, even, and profitable price can be secured.

!). The monthly cheque from the factory provides the mainstay in the household, as against the precarious returns from yearly crops. 10 In mixed farming the income from the dairy is the most reliable h' V K , f -f mcr ' s lloul *uold, as the result of daily work, is always supplied with fresh milk and cream, butter, pork, bacon, and veal. '

12. Storekeepers, traders, bankers, financial men, and politicians all fully reaww "I Car f 0f whence; tint* whenever dairy farming is conducted i aimers are more prosperous, mortgages ore rarely found, and the value oflandhauee7 e '' ty beeomcS C011sitol »y en-