Correspondence

Feilding Star, 13 June 1893, Page 2

Correspondence

MR RETEMEYER'S EXPERIENCE AS AN EXPERT. TO THE EDITOU OP THK STAK Sir,— Out gasworks are now in full working order and I see the safety valve is being utilized. Our Mr Retemeyer wants to make money easier than by milking those cows of hia, I told him that 10 per cent was the gain by using the separator — he says it is, and he will bet me £5 it is. Why, Mr Editor, it is heads he wins and tails I lose. No mention is mnde of the bet going to a charitable institution. Now, sir, Mr R, in giving you the information which be did before tho sale of his cows, posed there as a great expert, but I find that his knowledge amounts to this — he made so many lbs of butter : He then takes it for granted that 10 per cent was gained by using the separator. A great *xp#wenee certainly. Why, any school boy could do this. He says he made 17,2901bs in 8 years and his average number of cows was 22. Now, Mr Editor, we will divide tho 17,290 by 22 and divide the product by 8 for yeaw, and we find that each of his cows made in the season 2621b5. Now, sir, many of your renders know as much about cows as either Mr R. or myself, and will bear me out in the truth of this : That where one cow will stop in milk • months out of the year, we will find 20 that will only go 7or 8 months. Now, sir, allowing Mr R's. cows to be the best cows in the district and that they milked 9 months, by putting 9 into 262 lbs we find that for the 9 months Mr IVs. 22 cows made 291bs each month — most wonderful cows. [Mr Editor, the safety value wants screwing down.] Mr R. beat the cows of the National Bank »vi»h his avftrAge of '281bs 2oz for 5 months. Why, sir, with this average of 291bs for 9 months, he could beat the cows of the bank of New Zealand, and as he is yonng in the business we will give aim nnother chnnce, and he will beat the cows of ihe bank of Auatrnlasia, and just now is a fine time for him to put up ft record by beating all the banks in thu colonies. Go for them, R., go for tlwm. Ah ! Mr R , your cows in the information given to this paper, in the first set-off averaged for one year £10, but they were fed and for 4 years your butter averaged lid per lb. Good on you ; but, look, Mr R , multiply 11 on the 2621bs and we find that they made for 3 years £12, a cow each year can you explain that Mr R. Some of the other figures I cannot pick up, to me they are as clear as mud. Mr Editor, when I was n youngster there usedtoYisitour plncetlietraTcllingshows, and the showman would describe to us the great animal thnt was inside, wbicli was alive, kicking, and full of straw. He called it nnan'Tphibious animnl — an animal that couldn't lire on the land, and died in the water. Mr R. brings him tc ray memoTy, in this way; He does noi seem to understand my figures— -nor yel does lie seem to understand his own — nnd as for me covcrinz my h«-nd with a railk»»n I Inve not Mich n il.iiu, but il lie will Icji-J me one ->f in* which lit tested the pan setting system •ar.li I will put a lid on :t an! only shine occasion stonnlir, for. jou know, if I «a-« to »bin« ftl( the time there wou'd be n-> need foi gasworks. But long life to Mr X.; il we bud not a laugh now nnd ngain wt would be in our grave before our time. I am, etc.. Inquirer.