TEMPERAMENT IN DAIRYING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 10

TEMPERAMENT IN DAIRYING.

A dairyman's temperament must be such that he is universally kind to animals. Rough treatment and loud talking ing in the dairy do not pay. The milk cow is a lady in her own particular sphere, is Uie highest type of the brute creation, and she must be treated accordingly. Absolute cleanliness must be observed everywhere, , the cows groomed every day, and before beginning . milking their udders must be Avashed and wiped with a cloth. The man that is not prepared to attend to these important matters had better k-o dairying alone, and take up some branch of farming more suitable to his makeup. And every dairyman must not overlook the fact that strict attention to business is the" keyribte to success. Dairying means 365 days in the year of constant and careful work twice a day. But at the same time, it means a better system of farming, maintaining and increasing the fertility of the soil, and above all it means more money per acre than any other line of farming that can be engaged in."