Milking Cows on Shares

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 March 1910, Page 2

Milking Cows on Shares

Some informative facts as to milking on shares, and an incidental re-ference to the Wernron State Farm, are contained in a letter which appeared in the latest issue ■0. " The Fanners' Union Advocate." The writer states that on the West Coast of this island the-ro are a great many people milking cows on the share system. The owner usually finds everything: land, cows, horse and. trap, housing for tennmt, etc., and takes half the proceeds from all sources, viz., milk, calves and pigs. The tenant does nil the work: milks; takes the milk to the factory or creamery; brings back the skim-milk ai.- feeds the calves or pigs, as the case may be. times I believe, in Taranaki, the landowner gets a larger share. In the Wairarapa one largo dairyman pays a family so much per gallon to deliver the milk at the factory; and at the Weraroa Experimental Farm, the family of one of -the hands is paid for milking at a price per gallon. They have milking machines there, but about half the cows are milked by hand.