DAIRYING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1219, 30 August 1911, Page 8

DAIRYING.

PROSPECTS AUOUXD TEILDIKG. According to our .Veildinj correspondent, cows are rapidly coming to profit throughout the district, ah.d .whore "it is intended they should lie nra;.*creainencs are waking to life in the various collecting centres. Dairymen generally consider they liavo'reason , to be optimistic regarding" the outlook. -Grass should be rich and abundaat 'following last season's' dry spell, and where dairymen have taken the trouble to grow feeds for the successive stases of the milking season, the cows oujilit to give excellent, returns. From notes gathered in several parts of the district, it is observed that in some places there is a noticeable, mortality amongst the cows at calving tjme. Farmers arc not able to account for it, as Iho herds sreni to be in a healthy condition, ami the weather could hardly ho better. It is well, however, that the mortality is not biking place to any very FOTiaus'exleut. The' Cheltenham Dairy Company is arranging to tend a creamcollecting van aloup some of the bnok roads of the Kimlmlton district. Already tho cream from 100 cows has l>een promised in support of the van, and this will make it a fairly payable proposition for the company,' in addition to bringing a lai'icor supply to the main factory. Inquiries made went to sha.w- that there Is a fair number of nondescript herds ■in the • Kimbolton district, -while.the'more progressive u.iirymcii have "developed herds •of .Tersey-Shorthoi-n crois. Dairy farms in tho Colvton district are. looking very won, ami' are in a more forward state than they have' been for many years pa*t. dropping is well advanced, farmers getting tha benefit of tho fiss weather which has prevailed. Every year sees more land slumped, ploughed, and sown down, makin" provision for all-round food for dairv flock. The drought of last summer" necessitated the farmers putting the herds ou the- winter crop, much earlier than usual, fo that now, when Iho artificial feeds are extremely ucedtul, the shortnsD is felt. Tho milk supply is therefore not so great as it should he. Improvements in the breeding of tlio herds nre taking place every yp/ir, ana finer and more profitable cows aro now being grazed. The Jersey is si firmly-; t\stabli-.hed favourite, the pcrcent.ipn ot butter-fr.t bring so much greater and tho cows being easier ou the laud.