IT MAY REVOLUTIONIZE DAIRYING.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 223, 9 October 1940, Page 4

IT MAY REVOLUTIONIZE DAIRYING.

The now widely discussed practice of non-stripping on dairy farms is, if it can be proved feasable, likely to have, very far-reaching effects and. quite possibly may revolutionize the main industry of the Dominion. Here, we maintain is something for the Government to experiment with in a most careful and painstaking manner. On one hand the possibilities are tremendous for every sharemilker's agreement contains a very stringent clause, relative to ''stripping" on the other, the universal application of the new practice may spell disaster. It is rather dangerous at the present stage to allow individual farmers to experiment on their own account, particularly in view of the great emphasis on compulsary "stripping" ill the past. Yet as has been shown in these columns the leading herd in the Northern Wairoa was owned* last year by a farmer who had cut his milking time in half by merely neglecting the tiresome operation known as "stripping". Farmers require a definite lead in this matter and in view of the cry for greater production and the growing labour problem, it is up to the Agricultural Department to come forward with practical assistance and sound advice.