770 COWS MILKED

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1927, Page 1

770 COWS MILKED

AVERAGE PRODECTIOX tUWI.'H. Am average buitorfnt production of 30311, per cow, exclusive of hutlorlat used in feeding 107 calves ami lor household purpose*. iva- obtained by .Messrs I"’. \Y. Wallers aid Sens, of W’.iitoa, from tlieir nine herds at ,70 < OB'S during till' sea-'l at jIV-t t losed. Messrs Wallers amt Son. aiv ; lie lamest dairymen in Sow /calami. and •he performance tlieir herds ; s carls eularly meritorim,- I'liev have nr, farms at Springdule. t\ . ilea, one on tile Talinna Rond and two at WlmkaIi ane. The Whakntane herds did mil do so well as tlm Waikato cows, there being an excess of Iced due to the moist season am! to the laet that most of the lam! Imtl keen, topdressod for the lirsl time. The paddocks should 'nave /sail mown 'more troqucntly. Mr Walters stated that during the last season the herds were practically free from lniinimitis. the cows not into caff with little troniile ami few eases of ahnrtinn were met with. The prospects for the coniine year were particularly good and no previous season had opened under mole favourable comlit ions. As Messrs Walters and Sons depend largelv on grass pastures and hay loi tlieir fodder, and practise iopdressing with superphosphate in the autumn, their experience should be ol general interest..