“Daylight Saving an Aid to Farmers”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 156, 22 September 1927, Page 1

“Daylight Saving an Aid to Farmers”

WORK OF DAIRYMEN GREATER FARM EFFICIENCY TT is a question of the greatest A good for the greatest number,” said an Auckland business man, who is closely connected with the dairying industry, this morning in

regard to the Summer Time Bill. As far as the dairy farmers were

concerned be considered that it would have practically no effect upon them. To meet the alteration in time and suit. the convenience of farmers and the dairy factories, an alteration to the railway time-tables had been promised.

The chief complaint; he said, was that in milking ’ operations some difficulty would be experienced in getting milk to the factories- at an earlier hour. But .it was a well-known fact that few herds were so big to necessitate over, say, two and a-half hours’ milking. With a four-cow milking plant a herd of a hundred could be put through in two and a-half hours, and herds over that-size were not usual.

The longer period of daylight that would follow after the first milking would also lend to greater farm efficiency and increased production.

Most of the complaints against the proposal had come from the Waikato, but very few sound arguments had been put forward. Personally, he considered that once the scheme was in working order little more would be heard against it.