Cheaply Operated.

Around one co-operative plant I found that over 60,000 cows are annually under test. And in that district the farms are so well organised that one man is adequate for all the work connected with 20 cows, while two men can handle 50, and three men 100 cows. I doubt if there are many 100-cow farms in the United States where three men can do all the work. In short, the year-round pasture lawn system is not only efficient, but cheaply operated. To my mind nothing else explains how the New Zealanders make money dairying on such high-priced land…

Back in the ‘forties the early settlers came to New Zealand to dig gold out of the ground. By the modern alchemy of agriculture their descendants to-day are transmuting grass into gold without exhausting the mine.

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