DAIRYING ITEMS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 423, 16 December 1911, Page 6

DAIRYING ITEMS.

The Ayrshire and Shorthorn cross has been found an exceedingly good dairy animal.

It is tha practice of the scientific dairymen of the Old Country to milk three times a day.

If you think the man employed is not doing the. fair thing by you, inquire if you arc doing the square thing by him.

It is a fact which cannot be too often repeated that breed counts for more than food in the production of values in milk.

Experts, writing in the English papers, give it as their opinion that, a fair yield for a cow is not less than (ji)o gallons per annum.

Good miikers are always difficult to buy; the ones the dairyman is desirous of being rid of are those which d<, not yield satisfactorily. A century ago, in England, the fattening of calves for veal was the first consideration of the farmer desirous of being amongst the profits at Christmas.

It is the duty of every dairyman to be an experimentalist, in the matter of feeding, and it is another duty to publish the results in the general interest.

Handling and care in breeding have raised the [jig from the condition of a savage to be hunted, to the status of a civilised creature, to be fattened for pork.

If the cows ar in good condition and thriving the milk will be of the best qualty. provdeci the food is all right. If they are in poor condition and failing, the milk will be correspondingly poor and deteriorated.