A RIGID MERCILESS COURT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 25 June 1912, Page 6

A RIGID MERCILESS COURT

HOW DAIRYMEN ARE FIXED

Dairy farming is a rigid, merciless court, where there is no escape from paying the fines'imposed, says a Canadian writer. The farmer is fined in hard cash in this court if he keeps poor cows-; if he has unhealthy sheds; if he does not provide plenty of pure water and feed; if he feeds an unfitting, unbalanced ration; if he does not care for his milk and cream in a sanitary manner; if he does not provide improving blood for the building of his herd; lastly, but not least, he is fined most heavily if he iindertakes to deal with all these questions with an ignorant, uninformed mind. There is no escape, no appealing to the mercy of the court, no remitting of fines.

Refusal to make a serious study of the business of dairying is just where and how so many are heavily fined in this court. It is an old Jewish motto of "Justice without mercy" writ large and enforced to the last letter.