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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 425, 23 December 1911, Page 3

The dairyman who is for producing milk only wants a milking cow, and need not ask for a fat values test with her.

Every day you keep a cow which does not come up to the test you are losing money which you might be mak On good country with a wide run there is no breed better than tne Holstein, which is a good milker and butter maker.

While there is substantial profit in a good dairy farm properly managed, there can be only loss where the method is bad.

It is estimated there are 430,000, 000 cattle in the world, but the proportion of beefs, workers and milkers has not been arrived at. There is one sure thing about a cow. She soon wears out. When one shows signs of wear pass her on to the butcher, if vou like. The antiquity of the Jersey cow is proved by the uniformity of quality and type. There is no breed which shows less of variation. Some farmers are of opinion that while hay grown with the aid of superphosphates is not exactly injurious to stock, it is not so nutritious and calls for more oats to make a good feed.

The proposal to breed a farmer's horse by crossing the Clydesdale and the Suffolk Punch has nothing at all to recommend it. The effective cross is the Suffolk and the thoroughbred mare.

"Poverty is helpless" is a truism. Better build up the soils while there is yet money in the hank. High prices make the pre3ent an ideal time to look toward preserving soil fertility. If it is necessary, as it may be on the best farm,- to clean up insefected 3tyes or stables, the tools used should be cleaned and disinfected when the work is done; it is as easy to infect so ; l as to infect stock.