The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 15, 1889. A Cheap Handbook.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3256, 15 July 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 15, 1889. A Cheap Handbook.

We have received from the Governmentpublishingdcpartmentapatnphlet entitled " Reports on the Relation of Dairy Produce of New Zealand to the English Market, together with Practical Hints on Cheese making." This voluminous title, however, fails to convey a popular idea of the scope and value of the work, which is a sort of "colonial dairyman's complete guide," inculcating the newest and best mothods of butter making, cream preserving, refrigeration, milk condensing, pig feeding, and cheese manufacture; besides giving chapters on agents and salesmen, education in dairy work, improvement of dairy cattle, soils, roots, and grasses, ensilage, and dry foods. This hand book would be a bargain to any farmer at half a crown, and if sold at. a shilling the whole edition should go off like wildfire. But to our surprise we hud tl)3 following footnote attached to it, "To be obtained FREE at any land office, and at the Government stationery office, Wellington." We thought we had an economical Government in ollice, which gathered in every available sixpence or shilling that was obtainable from the public, but hero 'wo have a novel and unprecedented example of prodigality in tho free distribution of what ought to bo a saleable pamphlet. If the Government, instead of giving the work away, had charged a shilling for each copy and spent part of the proceeds of thesales in advertising it, they might have disposed of their issue of this publication to better advantage. People are opt to believe that a work which is giyen away is of no great value, and nowa-days it is absolutely necessary to advertise a book if it is required to be widely circulated. As the present publication is, in our opinion, of special interest to all engaged directly or indirectly in dairying, and as it is very desirable that our up country friends should obtain copies, we feel it our duty to gratuitously advertise it, and to advise each and all of them to put in an immediate application for a free copy, The Wairarapa must ultimately become one of the leading dairying districts in New Zealand, and any information which will assist settlers in finding a remunerative market, and in preparing their produce so that it will command the highest prices in that market, ought to be thrice welcome. The rich bush lands of the Wairarapa North and Pahialua Counties yield abundant pastures that should be'the life and soul of a dairy export. At present the development of these lands is retarded by a deficiency of capital. Settlers have no spare means in many instances even to purchase stock, and are compelled to allow rich feed to be wasted, Year by year tin's slate of thiugs will improve and large sudjb of money will find a profitable investment in promoting dairying industries in this promising field of operation,