The English parallel to this New Zealand plea for dairying
comes from Mr. Street, the author of that glorious book,
Farmer's Glory, and, since last week, of The Strawberry Roan. At the end of a farming diary which he contributes
every month to the English Review, he says, after a despairing lament for those who insist on encouraging wheat-growing : " We've been dairying on the open-air system for four years now, and each season our results have improved, especially this summer. The herd yield has been both high and steady. There has been no sudden drop in July. and August. Whether this is due to climatic conditions, which admittedly have been favourable, or whether it is because we know more about the game, I do not know, but definitely I have never known cows milk 'so. well. Well, it's nice to speak well of farming for once."
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