GOOD FARMING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 76, 21 July 1914, Page 4

GOOD FARMING.

Now that the annual bonus is being paid out by the Dairy Companies, it is interesting to find out how our dairy herds in this neighbourhood have done for the year. We inspected the return to-day of a small supplier to the Midhirst Factory, who milks 22, cows on 66 acres near Stratford. The milk returns were £-323 12s 6d (equal to £l4 14s per cow), while the calves and pigs netted £54 17s 6d, equal to an extra £2 10s per cow, making the total returns per cow £l7 4s. This herd is all grade Shorthorn. The above is certainly a surprising example of what good farming will do, and a plain answer to those who have doubts about the high value of lands in tho neighbourhood of. Stratford for dairying. We shall be pleased at any time to receive certified returns from other farmers in this district, if they eare to send them in, showing the returns gained and the breed of cattle they are milking. The publication of such information would be botli interesting and instructive.