FARMING NOTES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4915, 14 December 1925, Page 4

FARMING NOTES.

MARKETING AND PRODUCTION.

Writing to the Dairy Record, a farmer clearly demonstrates this tendency, and his remarks apply even with greater force to New Zealand than they do to American conditions.He says:—

“I think we farmers hear too much about the savings to us in better marketing and not enough about the profits in ‘larger and better production.’ There are savings in better marketing to be sure and 'we should give the matter our attention and support, but let us not put the accent on marketing to the point of overlooking where the big profit is. There are dimes to be made in ‘better production’ to pennies: that can be made through the medium of ‘better marketing.’ Let that be regularly and constantly remembered. The more we understand the more we are going to strive to be better-farmers,. Knowledge of .the tact that real profits come! to us through larger and . bettor production bn our own farms, prompts us to study and plan and do the things which make the farm produce more and better products for less expense. As we get our farms on such basis, our prosperity is assured. The ups and downs of the business world will affect us only in small degree. Panics and depressions with their falling prices never put the good producer completely out of business. They bother him, of course, but the good producer gets through. The poor producer, however, is put to the woods. One of the funny things to-be seen is the farmer who rushes around wondering and worrying about the markets when he has a herd of 1601 b producers and not an acre of alfalfa on the farm. A little more effort on his part at herd grading and feed production and a little less about the building up of some great marketing organisation would seem, so far as he is concerned, to be more in order. Certainly, it will be a better moneymaker for him.” C.O.R. TESTING. At the quarterly meeting of the Taranaki Jersey Council which took place at Kaponga recently, the following remit was moved by Mr Cornwall, on behalf of the New Plymouth Club: “That the Department of Agriculture be urged to so amend the rules for the C.O.R. testing of purebred cows as to allow five to seven days after calving before commencing the official test.” x The chairman said that at present immediately a cow calved she started under C.O.R.' It seemed that a cow should be in full milk before being put undei' test and five or seven days should be allowed to elapse. A cow did not start off the milking period with a full flow. Mr Cornwall pointed out that in the majority of cases milk had no commercial value for at least live days after the cow calved. Mr O’Sullivan, in seconding, agreed saying that in America testing did not start for a month, after calving. Mr Hunt thought that perhaps it might ,be a good plan to allow 14 days to elapse at the option of the owner, , but this suggestion did not find favour with the meeting. . The remit was then carried.

A further remit from New Plymouth was as follows and was moved by Mr Samson and seconded by Mr Hunt: “That the period of the test be amended to 305 days the cow to calve witliing 12 months or 365 days at the option of the applicant; the period desired to be stated at time of entry." —Carried.