GOOD DAIRY RETURNS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXIII, 20 December 1920, Page 3

GOOD DAIRY RETURNS.

: OVER £2 PER WEEK PER COW, The present dairy season, more perhaps than any previous one, owing to j the high price ruling for butter-fat, 1 has demonstrated the value of good . dairy animals, and that it pays to I keep a few high-grade cows to a herd j of medium quality. In former years : the animal that would return £2O to i —o for the season was considered well | above the average, but of late years ■ . the tendency of breeders is to get ia- , j creased miik yields and to breed coni j sistently to those lines. With the , system of testing in vogue, dairymen . j can easily ascertain the relative , ■ values of their stock, so that there is ; j everything to hand in keeping only the most profitable of animals. The . : present season with its fancy prices , has induced quite a number of residents to go in for a few cows, and > ■ these form quite a proportion of the . 1 suppliers to the Levin factorv. Some . j of the small suppliers have been re- . J ceiving very good returns, but that of t j Mr G. Sievers, of Fairfield, will perr 1 haps hold its own with any. From I three cows last month Mr Sievers’ re- , . turn was £24 2Ss, an average of £2 1: j dd per cow ge-f week. Mr Sievers ha: a . fue advantage of being thoroughly s ! experienced in stock, and his cows art a i naturally of a high-testing grade. Orn a I animal is a Friesian, and the cthe: , j two Jerseys, V j -JILL 55-H