FARM AND DAIRY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 194, 9 April 1932, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY

NOTES FOR THE PRODUCER CHAMPION BUTTER-FAT BULL. : ■ 'i : • , . v The latest champion butter-fat bull is Mr. C. G: C. Detmer's Vivandiere's Prince, the title being won by reason of having five daughters from different dartis that have reached certain Standards of production. That Prince should proVe a great butter-fat ' sire ik bnTy'what mfg'ht "be* %xp'ected, as the dam, Vivandiere, is the champion Jersey * cow of "New Zbaland on "twice-a-day milking, her record being 1036 lb. of fat in 365 days. Death of Dr. Sherhouse Williams. The death is reported of the leading dairying chemist of Great Bri- ( tain, Dr. Sherhouse Williams, 'the '• director of the famous National Institute for Research in Dairying, at Reading, EnglancJ'. Dr. Williams' reputation was wofld-wide, and his' death will be a serious loss to British dairy-, incr interests.

The Latest News. It is an old saying that'one has to go from home to hehr news. Hei'e is a very interesting "statement from an English paper "New Zealand : butter is made from graded and pasteurised cream, so as "t'o give 'it" thA "kb'eping qualities to stand the journey of 13,000 miles from the Dominion. West Country butter is made from fresh cream, and consequently' is fuller iiavbured than the New' Zealand butter. New Zealand agriculturists have now discovered a special starter whiich starts the setting of the cream and "imparts to the butter the same flavour as the West Cburitry butter. The new" Dominion product will, theref ore, have ' West Country flavour at the low": Dominion price. ■ It has' heen introduced primarily to compete with th'e full-flaVoured Danish butter in the North, but' it may Seriously chal- j lenge ' Devon ' and' Cornisli buttdr | oIca » .

Fresh Pastures Pay. At a recent conference in Ireland a G'ove'rnment expert stated that while there Was* rio better food for milking cows than good grass, he considered that very heavy milkers may with advantage get a little f eeding in the end of their lactation, but to extend the practice generally to all the cow? was, in view of creamery prices af that time, douhtful economy. He pointed out the mistake of allowing Cows to range ovep the entire pasture from the beginning of. the grass season. Cows should he confined to & couple of fields at a time, and exchanged every few weeks. The change to a fresh pasture stimulates the flow of milk and the yield is ' thereby increased. In autumn when the grassf is -scarce and cows are in pasture alone, a little expense involved in the way of supplementing th'e declining pasture would be amply rewarded btf longer-lived coWs, better condition when next calving, aind consequently a higher yield of milk.

Pig lndustry m Sweden. The SWedish authoriti'es are circulating in Britain an attractive illustrated booklet on "The Pig lndustry and Bacon Curing in Sweden." The hook "shows how the pig breeding 'ihdustry:has heen developed in Sweden, and hoW the type of pig has been improved by tackling the problem in an drganised mann'el*. "In 1925 there were 783 pig-breeding associations in the country,' and between 1918 and 1925 ' th'e annual production of bacon and pork advanced from 132,700 tons to 150,000 tons. The predominant breed of bacon pigs in Sweden is the native breed, which has been greatly improved by crossing with the Large White Yorkshire. The breed that comes second in importance i:s the Swedish Landrace, which is elosely related to the Danish Landrace. SinCe 1908 the Animal Husban'dry Department of the Agricultural Experimental Station has been applying extensive practical tests to the influence of differerit foods on the rate of gain and on the quality of the flesh. The aim of the work is to breed pigs of first-rate' quality for the production of bacon; and the experiments have advanced so far that the two breed? — Large "White and Swedish Landrace — are nearly equal, and have both reached a" high degree of perfection