Country Life
A DAIRY EXPERIMENT.
An experiment of the best omen for British farming is under organization in Wessex. A dairy farm of some 5,000 acres in extent is in being. It is stocked with the very best of dairy herds, capable of yielding an average of some 800 gallons a head a year. The latest and best machinery is installed or about to be installed. Among the smaller but not least important of inventions is, I am told, a " container " of extreme lightness and of so little value that it may be jettisoned after use. Nevertheless it is so properly adapted to its purpose that it will keep milk fresh and good for a fortnight or so. About this wholesale and very scientific dairy the best thing remains to be said. All farmers who contribute to the milk supply will he dealt with co-operatively. They will receive the market price for milk, plus a pro rata share of profits. It may be that this is the route by which co-operation will arrive in England, as a trailer to a big individual enterprise, not as a combined conscious effort by groups of producers. Co-partnership in industry is moving in the same direction.
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