. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CIIAPTKR XXIV. Dairy Farming in Number of Small Farms in Ireland—Primitive Character of the Management—Letting Cows to Dairymen—General Want of Care and Cleanliness—B'raud in Manipulation—Small Co-operation and its Evils—Butter Companies-Little Cheese made in Ireland- Statistics of Cork Butter Market—Mr. Bence Jones on the Facilities for Dairying in Ireland- Mr. Barter's Syslem of Manage- ment-Need of Improvement in Irish Practice—Mr. Barter's Code of Rules—Ireland the Fines
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CIIAPTKR XXIV. Dairy Farming in Number of Small Farms in Ireland—Primitive Character of the Management—Letting Cows to Dairymen—General Want of Care and Cleanliness—B'raud in Manipulation—Small Co-operation and its Evils—Butter Companies-Little Cheese made in Ireland- Statistics of Cork Butter Market—Mr. Bence Jones on the Facilities for Dairying in Ireland- Mr. Barter's Syslem of Manage- ment-Need of Improvement in Irish Practice—Mr. Barter's Code of Rules—Ireland the Finest Butter-making Country in the , ,L AIRYING in Ireland is pursued on a large scale chiefly in the province of Munster, where we occasionally find as many as 60 or 70 cows in one dairy. It forms, however, an important object of industry amongst the small farmers in the province of Ulster, many of whom do not possess more than three or four cows. Over one-half of the total number of niileh-cows in Ireland belong to occupiers whose holdings do not exceed 50 imperial acres in ex- tent. These men are therefore the great rearers of young cattle; that is, they breed the calves, which they sell at six months old, or as yearlings, to graziers, who carry them on until they are fit to be transfeiTed to the fattening pastures in Leinster, or the stalls of the large tillage farmers in Ireland or in Great Britain. Large numbers of year- old cattle are also purchased from the breeders by dealers who export them to England and to Scot- land. This trade is carried on extensively from Ulster. In many the winter management of dairy-cows, at least in the south of Ireland, is conducted in a very primitive manner. It con- sists simply in allowing the cows to graze upon the bare pastures night and day. In very bad weather some hay, usually of an inferior kind, is shaken down upon the surface of the field. ThosL> who follow the system consider that it is "
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