A NEW DAIRY FARM.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2038, 4 September 1880, Page 3

A NEW DAIRY FARM.

Recently Mr Drummond Bailey has taken a farm lately occupied by Mr J. Johns, between Stewart’s cutting and the Wr.imakariri on tho Northern railway, which he purposes to carry on as a dairy farm on a modern system. Tho pasture included in tho farm is some of the very best in the district, part of it extending over Harris’s island, which has been cleared of flax. Operations commenced with fifty cows, and the management of the dairy, principally for cheese making, is under the control of Mr and Mrs Andrews, from Dorsetshire. Mr Andrews has had some experience in the branch, from the fact that he appears to have been one of the first judges at the Islington shows of dairy produce, and has also a full acquaintance with what is known as the factory system of cheese making. On the farm a long row of milking sheds have been erected, with yard and other conveniences. A fair sized cool dairy has been built and fitted with every convenience for working either butter or cheese, with press room and store. Hardly any hand labor will be needed, except in milking, as even the washing of butter is performed by a machine for that purpose. Only a portion of the cheese making plant has come to hand, but when it is quite fitted up it will include a steam engine for driving the churn or heating the tin lined jacketed vat in which the milk will bo scalded, also a cooler, curd mill and press. The cheese will bo pressed in hoops, and ripened in suitable rooms. The quality of the butter produced may be pronounced excellent, free from buttermilk, firm, and well flavored, and the cheese when made in the same scrupulously clean and tidy manner may be expected to be also a good article. Every arrangement will be made about the premises to keep away the possibility of taint, and Mr Bailey anticipates being able to produce cheese second to none in point of quality.