. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER XXIII. Villa Dairying. neral Character of tlic Villa rtairy-Suitable Kinds of Cows—Importance of a Good Jlilkcr—Stalls and Shedding—Land Ucqiiired- i , ^ J\ ^ Method of Management for a Villa c'lLLA dairyine a practical farmer in the tnie sense of the word, and yet he may be, and often is, intensely practical in a way. He IS usually a ct)untry gentleman, a professional or a business man, who delights in a country home and in the possession of a small but select variety
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER XXIII. Villa Dairying. neral Character of tlic Villa rtairy-Suitable Kinds of Cows—Importance of a Good Jlilkcr—Stalls and Shedding—Land Ucqiiired- i , ^ J\ ^ Method of Management for a Villa c'lLLA dairyine a practical farmer in the tnie sense of the word, and yet he may be, and often is, intensely practical in a way. He IS usually a ct)untry gentleman, a professional or a business man, who delights in a country home and in the possession of a small but select variety of domesticated animals, and fowls as well. His agricultural education, as a rule, has been derived from books, and he has served no apprenticeship to the somewhat monotonous plod- ding after the plough, lacking which no farmer's training is complete. He has never done any ploughing and sowing, or reaping and mowing, and he has not in his youth been initiated into the intricacies of live-stock management, as it is con- ducted on a farm. No doubt he has read Jethro TuU and Arthur Young, more or less, as all cultured Englishmen who love a country life must have done; he may have waded through a disser- tation on the theory and practice of under-draining, have studied the laws of animal-reproduction and the mysteries of plant-nutrition, and he has surely wandered through the delightful " Chronicles of a Clay Farm; " but these studies, however nsefid they may be and are, are not enough to make a man a farmer, and the practical part is never so well learnt as in youth. At the same time it is a mistake to suppose that farming can only be made remunerative by those who have been brought up to it from thuif childhood. It is no doubt true that many—the great majority—of amateur farmers lose money by the business; but there are exceptions to the rule, and instances are not far to seek in which men who were bred to other occupations, and fol- lowed them for a time suc
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