FROM SHEEP TO COWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 854, 28 June 1910, Page 8

FROM SHEEP TO COWS.

J..;... WAIKABAPA CHANGES. ' ' I■■■■•■:■"■'■ A -number of Wairarapa farmers have .'V --'gold; their'sheep and bought dairy cows |'."•".-(says the ; ".Wairarapa Ago"), which also i ; ■■■■■'■:. states that Ur. A. P.obertson, of lUhau■iV'.'jtara, intend:! to have a. dairy of 000 ',-.'. cows. . ■ . : " Kv In some parts of the Wairarapa there ?■'•■'.' '■■ has . been a trend . towards dairying for ' r, :','.' several years, : but there has never- been (■■'.v'-'anything in the nature of a rush from ;•; ; ; "eheep to. cows. From time to time far5. '■■ - -mers in various parts of the Dominion i:'". ." ' have contended' that dairying pays better ;:■■■•■. than- sheep-raising or grain-growing, and ■ ■'■ ■'. ■'• Stmay be that some of the iWairarapa •&'■'.."men of the ■ soil have come- to the coni■■'-■': ■ elusion that dairying will be a payablo ~ investment as things are at present. '.':."'■■ -The Wairarapa is capable of .big things : T ■•/■■ Sn bntter and cheese production, and is :': ■ about the leading cheese country.Jn New- '' .'lZealand. An enormous quantity is manu- •■.'.' facturcd within a few miles of Carterh ■.:'. ion alone, and the whole district, .be- ■■'.' eides having a great output, has an en- ;-,■.," (Viable reputation for the good quality of ; :':ita produce. . ■