The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-04-28 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MIRY FARMIN:I.  The Eastern Counties have in former times—and we need not go further back than 10 or 15 years— been regarded as non-dairying counties. Probably for the size of them there has been less butter, c:.e se. or milk produced in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suft..lk, or Esser than in any other c 1 .!CS in England. So far as • regards tit . two latter counties, these will soon need a c.ange in the classification, and it is very evident tnat the visit which the British Dairy Farmers' As,ociation paid to Suffolk a few years ago did so:it-thing to revive an interest in this branch el Laming industry. We must not forget that a century ago Suffolk was a cheesein king and that it was in consequence of ti.. high price of wheat during the wars %silica ti el with the battle of Waterloo that the grass wae broken up and devoted to corn-grailiug. No one, then, can doubt that the land is suited ler rurp.:Ee, although the present revival takes the L !al of to supply the London popuImiom and not that of cheese - making. The proximity to a large town will often render this system the more profitable of the two. No pion. striking result of the change in the farming of these counties could be expected than the establehment of the Eastern Counties Dairy assor;ation, s up objects are stated to be Um framing of cquitade Michaelmas contracts, a standard a..alysis and measure for milk, and the _  ruing the ',rice of milk: the legal defence and rwection of its members, the promotion of dairy factor. a where desirable, the improvement of tho  breeds of dairy cattle. the mutual insurance of .VC S. and the purchase of feefing - stuffs and matures in quantities and by analysis. This is a 'rely extensive programme, and at the same time a very necessary one, for those occupiers who are ena_ed in milk-selling or other forms oi dairy-farming,  It is quite clear that the be terms cannot be ob. tnit, d without combination, either in buying or selling. Would that tamers more generally recog_.  nis,d-the truth of this. There Is another thing  which they might more generally see, namely, that through good and bad times dairy-farming has sliewn a greater power to afford fair profits, and mamtain the position of the farmers, than any other branch of the rural industry. Dairying has decidedly held its own better than anything else during the vicissitudes of the last 10 or 15 years, and this without combination to any great extent, but if other counties and districts had such an institution, and earnestly supported such a programme as I have ,sketched, there would be still more hope that in the long run it would give good results of a petals_ . . _  nent character, on which farmers might rely as a Meant; of supporting themselves and families without the great anxieties which are in the present day incident to the extensive growth of corn. la dairying we know that great attention and some  skill is required: these -farmers can supply, but they cannot provide against loss in corn•growing from a bad harvest or a fall in prices. These us beyond their control; what they should aim at is something within their control.  "Oh, I know all about babies," said he to tha young mother, who was afraid he would let her little one fall; "I was one myself, once!" Mrs. Wilkins: "Miss Forsythe has a new eneyclopreilia." Mrs. Jones: "Poor thing! She has hal severak before. Is this one on her neck like the others were?"  A member of Parliament has been putting the conundrum to his friends, Why- is marriage a failure?" And his ieply ii,"Becaue the bride never marries the best man.  Proprietor of country show: "As long as the tattoortl man and the indiarubber man continue to bo so jealous of each other you must keep 'ern spirt." A.sistant: "Why so ?" Proprietor: "Because, if you chn't, the indiarubber man will be trying to erase his rival." "Mr. Now,ome," inquired the city editor, "did you write this article in uhid, the statement is mado that ' K. K. Perkinson suicided yesterday afternoon '?" Yes, sir.'' answer, d the new man on the local staff. "Inn!" rejoined the city editor, blandly. "Mr. Newcome, you will please consider •vo irsalt • reaignationed.'"  Another lamentable accident to a domestic ser. want has just formed the subject of a coroner's inquiry. The victim, Sarah Lodge, was cleaning a seeond floor window at Holloway, when she lost her balance and fell inortally crushed. The coroner pointed out that there is an Act which prohibits, inMer a penalty of 405., any employer from allowing a woman to stand on a window-ledge. It has een a,ked how windows are to be cleaned except from the outside. The coroner pointed out an alternative. Witi.,ows can or easily might be displaced and pulled into the room.