ON £40 LAND.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 664, 15 November 1909, Page 10

ON £40 LAND.

' > ——- , , TO MAKE DAIRYING PAY. " A FEW FIGURES. , , ( , To make dairying pay in tbcso days of dear r .i.i Mfw: involves :not only high prices for but'torf.it, but.c. high degree*of efficiency 111 our 1 . v: .modes of managing things; When wo could buy .. grass land at £5 per aoro it. ivas . easier : .to . ■■ .. make meot with drone cows Hnd happy-go-lucky .methods than it is in theso days of JHO land. Vlf wo add tho .£lO paid for the cow ■ \ :, to tho. £80 paid; for the twoacres' on 1 which'sho. grasses, wo.get a Bnm of XjO, on which wo have i.- to pay interest - for milk. At 5 • per cent.,'this interest"atqoiints'td 'it 10s. per : . ;cow,.as against an interest of i£l;per cow if the, ■ land had:'cost .-por atre. To'-make' got from each cow.additional.milk to the valiio of.<£ 3 10s. , '• every year._ Aro we all doing that? some, of the good S:ij;i;dairying 'districts .the;': average gross return p?r; coyj ; iper ?itirinum, : ::for is still only aMut:^:.jllf,We deduct the .£4 10s. interest we ! got a balance of only £3 10s.. per cow, as our ■. return for labour done,' inoricy invested .''.'in:s„:; > plant, depreciation,"-otc. 1 :-,: Over .a- liord- of. GOi cows in !prbfit,i-this v roturn' would' . amount ;to >S2lO per annum. Tho depreciation item - needs ; the.; wishes ,* of,: the farmers'.' meet-. :gfi CaUjiet;''iUobfor»v;)npt. ■Vj'i'-Vsteadilyvin--vfew'J'J^.lf;ifn, average of ofthe herd be i thrown;o'ut ■ ea<tfi year, the de- • preeiation on a (herd of GO cows at <£10 each must bo put down at bfifcO, pei annum. This ■■■■;■> = leaves ( <eiso whcrotfith to shoe tho • horso;- mend' i; I 'thecnrtv^^liuyfertilisers : (if.' possible), get new milk, cans as fast as the jnspeetdr; condemns the ■v---%.; , brd:' , op^£i^n , CMtßy.thß!'jß^rs;;^:;inai^tain l ..vthe('. f cows. " If these; deductions leave' . as much ,(« J!lG0 to. divide, between the farmer vV.ji ; ;>rid..his'Hvifß.it is-tho^verylimaximum.',. Vlt'.certainly/ doesirlook. as if dairy farmingvith . "avorage'.'. cows on JMO land had better ! put up tho shutters.: WhaKwe have got to do, the outpuf;., Wo-. : caji .do .thifc'first,"iby 'te?tmg tho 'artOdoing \yji : ..;the/ntmOrtjj'care,i.inVordot.,that 'when we.' coll: •„ ' .■we.may/-bo'suro to cull-the. worst, and that be from pur' : 'bestWowsY and, 'secondEly/ , 'by so improving. !?■ our modes f-of, maintaim'iig-'tne icowsthat. they year,their maximum. We can lesfen expenses and 'ma]ce' dairying' less f ,■'s full of. drudgery by installing machine-milkers, : \aiid ;w8 'ban* make, the; most of. the by-products milk;rnd -the\ whey. ! • (stonhsed)r-rby producing porkers and'■ baconers .on tho';'most .'ufrto-dat'e': lines.;,; It'is.'-.'pften impressed, upon us that it,is~ the pigs that pay: • off the .mortgage, but tho pig farming, must '£-'r'C-.'-$S with;.the right.class of aniiflals '. • and. with'.-ihe right methods of''feeding.' '..Very' =):'Bf®at-;iMprpiremenfc:'.iil>the• «ondftion. of itho pigs .is. reportedly those .dairy.farmers-who - have !;,; : ( skimmed milk 4 y/rwpi;,wli^^Soimo : 6rtmß"iiaproTCni'ent''is:'ii , o dohbt due.: to ?thoistorihty of-.this ..food, an! very y'Cr-i;;^iehty);pr&qf;oiists',thaf;..tal)©rcu]osi3 Has.been 3;^..entirely herd ;of ! swine by hf:n : ;;systeto'. ! ''' ; But>much v of /the. 'good . V : bo due, to the fact that some , ■ ;of the: steHli'sed' railk.and whey is fed warm. IvWhefl I ,these Jvery iwatory foods' cold very elßmeiits.;whichi,wbuld otherwise !i»is;;;,bei-turrfel^nto, ; up .in■ tho; • process of up.the whey or milk to'tKe; ' ■'■;animars:;i)ody;.heat i ':.and .'loss ~of .Vweight in- '. , oyitably„'follows. ', VTho dttlti.vation .of - gfcatGr areas of; fodder. crops>:thofsiying}6i•. mprd .hay and silage,''the; 'most severe times' ' of::the''.year,vand. winter feeding for- winter •dairying; (si}iioh will. bo. powible.in tho good ' days ; beets pulp ' feed ' 'will 'be f;; ;:'::; available; ifrom the sngar works) must enter v;! .';;; largelyyintt :any /tjuestipji: 'of 'inakiiig '.dairying; ; ' ': pay on i6fl)Mana. It seems'hopeless to look for prices to'jfall. : The .rise in wool ,will ( bo ,sure .we'musf look .S' : .; ,;r: : for r otner'.ftSys ofVmaKng?end3:.meet,rfetej;niiv