Married couples are making .£2OO a year milking on shares in Taranaki. at least one couple is. In this case the wife is a champion milker, and her husband is a fairly good milker too. The employer gives them two-fifths of the milk cheque on the 20th of each month, and they milk the whole year round—there is no off season on this particular farm. A free house was provided, free firewood, free milk, but butter is not allowed. The number of cows milked by these young people is fifty two, and the gross yield for last season rather over XSOO ; and of this amount the milker got L2OO. The baby sits in an improved baby jumper during the milking time, and is carried out to the shed all weathers.
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 159, 27 February 1903, Page 4
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