N.Z. DAIRYING.

Northern Advocate, 22 January 1920, Page 6

N.Z. DAIRYING.

IMPRESSIONS Oi'' A.N IRISHMAN

A writer in the "Irish Statesman," published in Dublin, say s that he was greauy impressed by a conversation thai he had with two dairying authorities from New Zealand who hud

hii'-a visiting many countries to exchange views on tneir special industry.

"int-y told me," he says, "among I oilier things, that in their country margarine was an unknown food; a population of a million people consumes more than fourteen thousand tons of butter in a year—which mean 3 that the average family of five persons gets from two-and-a-half to three pounds a week, in addition to a full ration of wholesome milk. This does not prevent them from placing on the Eglish market (and also on the Irish) an equal amount of butter, as well as a vast supply of cheese. New iCaland is one of the remote countries in 'he world ( but in technical ■.--Kill and in contentment of living 1 fancy that it comes second to none. One of the details which go to make up this pleasant picture is very significant; every national school in New Zealand, urban as well a s rural, has its own garden attached to it for the purpose of practical training, and prizes are given annually for the schools whose gardens are best kept and most successful. There are a few schools in Ireland —in rural districts —which have such gardens, and there is plenty of evidence that they have produced a marked effect on farming practice in their neighbourhood. Cannot we learn a lesson from the Antipodes, and convert the casual excppfon into a general rule?"