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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 September 1914, Page 7

An attempt is being- made by .a New Plymouth firm to develop an export trade in butter with Germany. Hitherto dealers in that country have not favoured the New Zealand butter boxes and have preferred to get their butter from Denmark in casks. The firm in question however, is 1 of the opinion that once the New Zealand butter becomes known dealers in Germany will not mind whether it is conveyed in boxes or casks, and with this end in view has imported 100 kiels or casks, which are to be sent back to Germany filled with our primest butter. , A cow weighing 1000 pounds will consume on an average aboxit 30 pounds of corn silage daily ; 15 pounds may be fed in the morning' and 15 pounds in the evening. The allowance may be increased or decreased in proportion to the cow's weight and .iiidividur.l needs.. Some cows weighing a thousand pounds require more silage than others of the same weight. Mr. A. Uillio.s, of Hampden (South Island, N.Z.) .sustained a rather severe loss recently, one of his noted Ayrshire cows, Reta, a well-known prizetaker at Southern shows, dy-. ing from milk fever. There have been a large number of cases of milk fever in dairy herds in the South this season, but since the air treatment has beeomo so general there has been a great reduction in the number of cases that have proved fatal. Contagious raamnntis is ranorted'; to be very prevalent amc»n# the dairy herds on the Akaro» Peninsula, i-toy. 1