MIDHURST DAIRY COMPANY.
ANNUAL MEETING. The chairman of the Midhurst Co-opera-tive Dairy Company (Mr. A. Brown), spanking at tho amiuai meeting:, stutecl that the output for tine year hail increased by 79 tons. lieferring to the matter of testing, the chairman said lie was sorry to say he thought the Midhirst people were, drifting- behind their neighbours. They must admit that they weie'milkir.g hundreds of cows that were not worth tho grass they ate, or the labour that was expended in milking them. So far as manuring was concerned, he could congratulate til® settlors 011 what tliev had deno (luring tho last year. Two hundred and fifteen tons had been distributed nmong the farmers, and this was n long way in advance of anything they had done before. While he said they were on the right track, he would say there was-still 11 lot more to be done. Ho hod taken the trouble to work out what this meant per-acre. Assuming they were farmin" 30,000 acres, it only amounted to 1611). o'f manure per acre. Messrs. Peter J. Petersen, Ancus \\ right, and Frank Keightley were elected directors and Mr. T. H. Penn auditor.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1502, 26 July 1912, Page 8
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193MIDHURST DAIRY COMPANY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1502, 26 July 1912, Page 8
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