The Irish Homestead

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THE IRISH HOMESTEAD The Organ of Irish Agricultural and Industrial Development: Vol. XXIII.—No. 46. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1916. [ONE PENNY.] CONTENTS Page AGRICULTURE—continued:— Page LEADER:— A Cow to the Acre (continued). By T. Wilberley 718 Templecrone.—A Record of Co-operative Activity 709 CREAMERY MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION CLUB 719 CORRESPONDENCE:— Metallic Flavour in Butter ... 719 The Milk Supply—Slow Poison—Remember the Labourer—The Butter Industry—Preserving French Beans—Profitable Aviaries—A Policy for the I.A.O.S.—Workmen's Compensation UNITED IRISHWOMEN ... 720 Insurance Scheme ... .. 714 POULTRY:— 720 AGRICULTURE:— Eggs for Market (continued) ... 720 Live Stock Notes ... .. 716 GARDENING NOTES:— 722 Prove All Things ... 722 THE IRISH HOMESTEAD SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1916. NOTICE The Subscription to the IRISH HOMESTEAD for Inland Postage is 6/6 per annum; 3/3 for the half-year. The Subscription for Foreign Countries is 8/8 per annum; 4/4 for the half-year. All Subscriptions should be addressed to the MANAGER, "The Irish Homestead," 11 & 12 Findlater Place, Dublin. Telephone: Dublin 2453. The IRISH HOMESTEAD is on Sale at the Railway Bookstalls: LONDON—Euston Station, and MANCHESTER—Exchange Station. HOLYHEAD—Railway Bookstall; as well as all Railway Bookstalls throughout Ireland. LONDON OFFICE:—54 Avenue Chambers, Southampton Row, W.C. Telephone Museum 1534. TEMPLECRONE. A RECORD OF CO-OPERATIVE ACTIVITY. The Folk on the Rocks. When we reflect on the results of our propaganda in Ireland, we think with more pleasure and pride of societies which have helped the poor than of those which have made the well-to-do more comfortable. The co-operative movement was not started because it was so desirable for the rich to be farmers, but because the circumstances of the poorer farmers in Ireland were a blot on our civilisation. We welcome all classes into our movement, the rich as well as the poor. The rich, by accepting the co-operative idea and joining in with their poorer neighbours, bring a more needed hundreds of thousands of small farmers when they unite help themselves in every way, and when the very poorest by their own efforts, by uniting and substituting a collective energy for individual effort, succeed in raising themselves out of the extremest forms of poverty, we do feel a thrill and we turn with an excitement of spirit to see how the success was brought about. The exploits of the engineer, the discoveries of the chemist, indeed almost all the developments of science, have not eliminated poverty from our civilisations. Unto them that have is given. The wealthy and well educated are those who first hear of new inventions, see their possibilities and utilise them, and so it comes that we have immense and increasing accumulation of wealth on the one side, and multitudes of people, out of that current of power and knowledge, who live in the slums of our cities or who in the remote rural districts draw a precarious livelihood from barren so…