THE NEW DAIRY EXPERT.

Evening Star, Issue 10749, 8 October 1898, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE NEW DAIRY EXPERT.

The 'New Zealand Dairyman' for September contains a portrait of Mr J. A. Ruddick, the newly-appointed Chief Dairy Expert to the Agricultural Department, together with a biographical sketch of the man and his work. It appears that Mr Ruddick, who ia one of Canada's youoger dairymen, is a careful and cautious observer, and eminently practical, and consequently his counsel and advice on cheese and buttermaking has always been valuable. He was born near logersoll, Oxford County, the birthplace of the Cauadian Co-operative Cheese Factory, and a r . an early age gained experience in Norfolk County. In 1882 he went to an Ontario factory, and before completing his first season there, and when in his nineteenth year, he was selected out of thirty-four applicants to supervise a number of factorirß, a position which he occupied for seven years. During 1889 and 1890 Mr Ruddick acted as travelling instructor for the ' Eastern Dairymen's Association, resigning in 1891 to accept a position on the J staff of the Dominion Dairy Commissioner, doing' valuable work for the department. By means of a travelling diary he aided cmsiderably in the development of co-operative dairy woik in Manitoba, the North west Country, and British Columbin, and he was the " builder " of the famous Canadian mammoth cheese which won distinction at t le World's Fair at Chicago. .On the State taking'over the Kiagaton Dairy School Mr Ruddick became its permanent superintendent, and the school has prospered under bis management, the number of students inc .'easing every year. "Is it far,from here to the next town?" asked a.touiist of a native of the soil in the backwoods of Missouri. " Well, it ain't so very far nor it ain't so very nigh, and yit it ain'c as nigh as it might be if it wa'n't so fer as it is. Still, it'd be ferther if it wa'n't so nigh, sa I reckon one might say it was betwixt an' between fer an' nigh."