DAIRY FARMINC PAYS.
A GOOD INDUSTRY FOR BEGINNERS. We are all prepared to admit that it is a bad season (writes our Wairarapa correspondent), out generally it is not. so black as it is painted,' .An: instance is given 'in the case of a settler who abandoned bushfelling at nine .shilling's a., day to take up. dairying. He has sixty odd. acrGs of land leased to him at 15s. an acre,' and ho-herds 23 cows and a few pigs. His two: children and himself do the ; milking,- and ; his wife drives the milk cart to the factory; The spring was very wot) and the season-now is very dry, and: the new-cotter, is generally admitted not to have had' too; good a time. ' Notwithstanding' this;- his gross' returns have beta £5 per week. "If: this is' 1 ' what I can -make ,in 'the bad times;" he said, "what must those other people have done in the past ten-years.- I am sorry that I did not gb upon the land years ago. No more bushFoiling for me."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 2
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175DAIRY FARMINC PAYS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 2
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