WELCOME VISITORS

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2274, 5 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

WELCOME VISITORS

Datry factory cheques are the most comfortable things flying about just now, aud are welcome visitors in these bare A vast amount of energy is being displayed in working out the details of the milk supply, and any quantity of work is being negotiated in the cool of the evening as well as in the early morning ; with a start Sunday and Saturday at 4 o'clock or 4.30 no one can deny that the supplying of milk to the factory is couducive to that domestic virtue and agricultural necessity, early rising. It is to be hoped that as the season progresses the cheques will go on increasing in value, so that no one will have cause to regret embarking in the milk trade and its early hours. In addition to the direct advantage of a ready money market for produce there are numerous indirect advantages which the dairy factory system will soon produce. Farms will require to be worked on a more regular system of rotation of cropping; straw better taken care of; stock more comfortably housed ; manure more systematically made and more systematically applied, &c, all of which means, no doubt a more expensive mode of farming, but without which there is no chance of taking the necessary amouut of money out of the soil. The old mode of oats after oats, after oats, game is played out, and its scourging tendency if persisted in is almost always compulsory for people who can't do as they wouldbut must just do as they can, and can only excuse themselves by saying with the old Scotch farmer, ' Hoot, man, the land'll be here when we're awa.'— Mataura Edsign.