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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1203, 11 August 1911, Page 8

Dairy farmers must "have strong serviceable and easily-cleaned cans. Victor is the name of the can that suits every requirement, and it pays handsomely to use these cans and no others. Every lid will fit every can. ■ Send for a catalogue to Albert J. Farton, Cartaton.' ' «

Tho Opunakr , dairymen are keen on getting a cow-histing astudalioii (,'oim;. 'J'ho I'ihama and Opunakj coin panics arc javourablc, and others within reach are expected to join in. Jlr. Onddie, Government Dairy Commissioner, ha.s written to .say that In Kaunoknniii and Stratford associations are to Iμ continued. J k> cannot this voar };ivo personal supervision, but. t;ho IJepartmont "will bo fjlnd to confer with the supplier* to any factory where it is proposed lo start im assoeiation, aud to ro info the matter carefully with them. We would also send an officer to fee that the work was commenced on Rood line,;. , ' Tne~Opunak<! "Times," inferring to the mat tor. says: A dairy farmer who has been conductinp; systematic testing- -of his herd this s-mkmi informs u? that he has had his eye.- opened very wide with the results'. He has found that soiao of his cows returned him ,£0 a month at t'>p top of the season, whilst one other nt ■llvs same time only reh-rned 175.. and others ranged from that to the top figures priven. It' may appear hard to have io clear out good-looking cow=, which are good in cmnntitv. and good evpj-.v way, except in the test battle, but there is nothing surer than that poor cows will keep a former poor.

T!n< Pahiatua-Akitio A. and P. A«o«a : tion ha? decided to purchase a portion ot Hall's estate for a new show ground.