DAISY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. . How SMcmtal Farmer* Operate Thl* Department ef the Farm—A Few .Hint* a* to the Care of Lire Stock . an« Poultry. H. MONRAD. writ ing in American Creamery, says: It seems to the "pen and ink” but ter-maker that the fact of Eastern dairy butter being classed so low, in dicates the need of more creameries. Dairy butter, when properly made, ought to be better than creamery, as the maker has the means of controlling the feed given to the cows and the handling of the milk all the way through. The creamery buttermaker, on the other hand, has to contend with batches of ■poor milk; he will never get better milk than the average of what is produced by his patrons. It is true, one reason for the lowfer rank of dairy butter is the lack of uniformity, which hurts its sale in the open market. This fact is often not thoroughly understood by the dairy farmer. Take 100 tubs of dairy butter—good, bad and indifferent, with an average score of 90 points, and they will seldom bo sold aa high as 100 tubs of uniform creamery butter scoring 85 ' points. This fact alone, not to men tion the saving of labor and the possi bilities and economy of the very best appliances In the creamery, should be J sufficient to encourage the farmers to co-operate and establish more creamer \ les. Take the conditions in England. If the farmers were to co-operate there it would be all the worse for the Danes and Americans, just as the stronger and more extended co-operation in the west is proving such a hard competition for , the east. It is not only the cheaper and more fertile lands of the west. It is the more enterprising spirit which adapts 'itself quickly to new systems, new ma chinery. And why? I may be wrong, /but It, fSsnui natural to me that older coii muni ties are slow to undertake re forms. Just consider the case of two young men. One goes west and starts untrammelled by the traditions of what his father and grandfather has done, while the other has to face the adverse criticism not only of his relations, but that of every one of his neighbors. Is there no excuse tor his letting Improved methods alone and Jogging along In the old ruts of Us forefathers? Nor must It be supposed that the reform in the west ' —which Is not completed by a long shot < —has been carried out, before the farm ers were, so to say, starved Into It. In Dakota I asked a patron of a creamery bow meny cows he milked; he replied: “Two last year, ten this year, and I will milk more neat year." When, in my enthusiasm, I slapped him on the . shoulder, saying: “You are the man of my heart," he added, with a queer § smile: “But | had to be starved Into it," The truth is that the most sue ■ eesstnl creameries are in the districts : Where the continuous wheat crops have reduced the yields, and the low prices the profit to starvation point. What • little I have seen of the eastern fann ying, where enormous sums are spent I on artificial fertilisers, makes me be 1 llere that only by an Intelligent co \ operation in dairying will the “aver taM>: