<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416005" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dairy Ode</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our muse it doth refuse to sing<br>Of cheese made early in the spring,<br>When cows give milk from spring fodder<br>You cannot make a good cheddar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The quality is often vile<br>Of cheese that is made in April,<br>Therefore we think for that reason<br>You should make later in the season.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cheese making you should delay<br>Until about the first of May.<br>Then cows do feed on grassy field<br>And rich milk they abundant yield.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ontario cannot compete<br>With the Northwest in raising wheat,<br>For cheaper there they it can grow<br>So price in future may be low.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though this a hardship it may seem,<br>Rejoice that you have got the cream,<br>In this land of milk and honey,<br>Where dairy farmers do make money.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Utensils must be clean and sweet,<br>So cheese with first class can compete,<br>And daily polish up milk pans,<br>Take pains with vats and with milk cans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it is important matter<br>To allow no stagnant water,<br>But water from pure well or stream<br>The cow must drink to give pure cream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Canadian breeds 'tis best to pair<br>With breeds from the shire of Ayr,<br>They thrive on our Canadian feed<br>And are for milking splendid breed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though 'gainst spring cheese some do mutter,<br>Yet spring milk also makes bad butter,<br>Then there doth arise the query<br>How to utilize it in the dairy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The milk it floats in great spring flood<br>Though it is not so rich and good,<br>Let us be thankful for this stream<br>Of milk and also curds and cream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All dairymen their highest aims<br>Should be to make the vale of Thames,<br>Where milk doth so abundant flow,<br>Dairyland of Ontario.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416005" data-title="Dairy Ode de James McIntyre" data-description="Our muse it doth refuse to sing Of cheese made early in the spring, When cows give milk from spring fodder You cannot make a good cheddar. The quality is often vile Of cheese that is made in April, Therefore we think for that reason You should ma..."></div> </div> </div>

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