One technical achievement on the little farm is worth attention.
When the needs of the engineering and vegetable department are satisfied, only fourteen acres are left for the dairy cows. Therefore the intensive system was compulsory. The cows are moved on from paddock to little paddock and under the stimulus of artificial fertilizers the first has a good growth of young grass by the time it is reached for the second time. The young grass is so nutritive that through the spring and summer two cows to the acre were kept in health and high production. The average of the herd was well over 800 gallons. A part of the milk is sold under the new and rapidly developing scheme of providing elementary school children with milk (a third of a pint in a sealed glass bottle) every morning. In almost every case the parents are glad to pay the penny. Statistics as to the influence of the milk on the vigour both of mind and body are being made in Evesham ; and perhaps are likely to prove not less convincing than the Edinburgh figures. • • * •
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