THE PAYABLE COW.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1569, 12 October 1912, Page 8

THE PAYABLE COW.

■/. ■■' ■ ' \ : HIGHEST PRODUCERS MOST PROFITABLE. TThe, highest producing cows are the most profitable, or in other" words, the cow giving the most milk and-butter-fat leaves the owner with the greatest net cash proit without Tegard to the cost of keeping, when compared with low-produc-ing cows on. small cost of keeping. This is a phase of dairy economics tnat a {rreat many farmers still fail to comprehend in spite of the fact that practically every single experiment and trial that has yet been made proves the truth of the assertion. • Too many farmers are misled by the idea that there is more clear money in a low-producing cow with a low feed bill. The same vicious notion often prevails in regard to the. soil. Some shortsighted farmers contend that there is moro money'to them in not spending their funds on fertilisers, or, in other words,' in not feeding 'the soil. With both the cow and the soil, however, it is poor farming trying to get something from.no-thinjf.-rand'.nq man ever'won' handsomely -along these lines.. The, wise, progressive faimer jsayft that her.: must .first see, by systematic testing, that, he'has profit-mak-ing cows, and then he must ceo that he feeds .them, up to their best capacity. In this way only can the largest profit bo made. .Then,-as to soil, the well-posted farmer .recognises that he must have rich soil and that he must spend some money on fertilisers each year to keep it so. Further, the beet of seed and tilling.is needed because it is only from such soil «nd such conditions that the highest profit can be made.

Dairy fanning can't be carried on by 'rule of thumb." New conditions compel farmers to depart from the wellbeaten tracks of custom, and adopt .methods more in accord with modern requirements. Our forefathers who farmed in the Old Country would have suspected lunacy in the person who said that some day milking would be done with machinery. Yet to-day, on almost every goahead dairy farm in the Dominion, milk-ing-machines are busy eatning money for their owners at a rate undreamt of a few years ago. However, when all's said and done, the power behind the machine is the real money-maker. If that power is supplied by an "Anderson" Oil Engine, a minimum of trouble and a maximum of profit are assured. The "Anderson" is a New Zealand-made engine, specially suited to dairy farmers' needs. It is eimple, reliable, and very- economical. Instal an "Anderson" with your milking-machine. Andersons, Ltd., Christohurch.—Advt.