WHERE THE MILK COMES FROM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 251, 16 July 1908, Page 3

WHERE THE MILK COMES FROM.

COOD V/ORK IN SOUTH FEATHERSTON. After (travelling across the i poorer, soil country of'the; South 1 Wairarapa. plains (says oiir ' travelling'correspondent)- one is'brought ■ face' ' to. faco : with -a different. class . of,, land altogether ,jn tho South Feathcrstorf,district: iHere the : quality' is'all' that, can. ho desired ; it 'is fattening.. and dairying land. _ From here,. a . considerable' portion",of. Wellington's*.milk ' supply'.'is".forwarded. : The greatest cleanliness is observed on the'dairy farms. I havn been'-in most of. the. dairying : districts "of the '.'Wellington; Province on both sides of the ranges, and ,have seen dairy .farms; of many- sorts,, but' never have I; son, such Well 'Ordered farms, arid especially the'milking .'sheds,': suclr..as are the ■ruloin FeathersVon district.. The sheds , aro lofty, and, of courso, airy; • all are white : . .washed;'. somo 'have' concreted, floors," others' have brick. Thero is; a plentiful supply of water,' with which the sheds are flushed afteri-the bails: and, alleys: have, ben brushed clean:- In some sheds milking machines nre. installed, and are giving satisfaction. - One or two other farmers 'toldv me' they intended putting them in'shortly.'. ..With the system of cooling "the milk before, it-is sent to Wei-! lington, and . the . wonderfully' clean,- state of .the farms from which, it is. produced, tho city folk are_ to: be congratulated {on having such'a district' from which- to derive their milk.... ,