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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 11

BY THE WAYSIDE

News of Ioterest To H.B. Farmers SWISS DAIRYING In Switzerland the smaller dairy cows are, iu some loealities, talcen up into tlie higlier 'valleys' of the Alps where they are kept until the end of the summer. The hcrdsmen livo with their cows day and night each looking. after twelve to fifteen cows. The * milk is made into cheese, which is taken down out. of the inountains when cured. At the close of the season the eheeses are di'vided on a given day. A careful record is kept of the milk each cow produces, and each owner gets his ehare of cheese.. All surplus cheese is sold at auction, and, after the distribution, cheese is carried liome along all tho liighways and by-ways. "Productive Jersey. ' The Englisli Jersev cow Stonehurst Patricia's Luly has established another world record for the breed by yielding '22,309 lb. milk and 1049 lb. butter fat in 365 days. In 1935 she produced 24,094 lb. and 1087 lb. butter fat. Stonehurst Patricia's Lily is the iirst Jersey cow iu llio world to produce over 2000 gallons of milk and over 1000 lb. butter fat on two successivo lactations. During the last lactalion this remarkablc cow roached 981 lh. milk in twentyfour hours, and averaged 61 lb. throughout tho lactalion. In two ycars she has yieldcd 21 tons of1 milk, cqual to approximatoly' sixty limes her own live weight. Adulterated Butter. In its report' of legal actions recent]y issucd, the U.S.A. Federal food and, drug administration states that butter containing less than the legal requiremonts of butter fat represented the most prevalent violation. An aggrogate of. nearly 7It0001b. was seize.l ■throughout the country during July and August. Short-wei,glit butter was encouutercd in only oue sniall shipmont. amo liiting Lo ,161b. of InsHer in an ai\;uicetJ sluge of deconiposition. . Gcnnau Farmina. . As a cont.ni, st to tho slmv dpvelopuiont of our farming resources, says ari lmglish agricultural -journal, we should jotc the progress attaincd in Gcrmauy iu reeent years. "We only produce 40 per cout. of our food, but even at the | end of 1934 Gormany 'a self-suffleioncy

in food was estimated to be 85 per cent., or. without the aid of imported iieeQmg stuffs, 75 per cent. Whereas in 1926 home-produced bread cereals covrered only 70 per cent. of German rcquirements, she is to-day practically independent of foreign sources for tho . materials for her bread supply. She produces 98 per cent. of her meat, 90 per cent. of her milk and dairy produce, 80 per cent, of her fruit, and 80 per cent. of her eggs." American Record* Producing more than five times as mucli butter as it is estimated, the cows on farms in tho United Statcs averaged in 1932, Oxford Stockwoll Vietrese, pure-bred Jersey cow ownod by Highm Pastures Farm, Vermont, U.S.A., has just completed an oflieial production test record of 1,051.711b. fat, 15,8341b. milk in a year. In 1934 she, completed a 365-day test yield of 951.25 lb. fat, 15,9791b. milk. This record also won the medal of merit award. In additi.on to the two medal records she has completed two other outstanding production records. She was. sired by The Owl's Oxford Vietor, a bull bred on the Island of Jersey, and has the same dam as Stockwell's April Pogis of H.P., the national Jersey champion for butter -fait yield, with a record of 1218.481b. fat completed in 1934. Argentum Record. . * What is claimed in Argontina to be a World k record of butter fat production for cows of any brccd, with two daily milkings, has Lecu achioved by a Dulch-Argentine cow, Manzanita Prilly E26. In 305 days of her fourth milking period this cow produccd 11,526 kilygrams and 250 gram-s (25.4,101b.) of milk, with 443 kilograms and 812 gramsof butter fat (9 781b. 1 Japanese Wool, The view that Australia nad little to f ear from Japan 'a" sheep-growing experiments in Japan and Manchuria was expressed in Sydney by the director of the McMaster Aninial Health Laboratory, "Dr. I. Clunies Ross, who recontly studied the attempts which aro being made to establish thb wool-grow-ing' industry in the Far East. ■ Ilo said there was no saggestion that sheej)raising could evcr bccomc a major industry in Japan proper. On the island of Hokkaido tlie number of sheep per Farni was only five, vvhilc on the main .island tho number was three. More. succcss, )>«»vvcver, was being met with in Manchuria, where un attempt was being made to fix a crossbred type of sheep obtained by crossing tlie imported with the native Mongoli.an breed.- The sovere-eold of winter was still a difiieulty that had to be overcome.