Dairy Skimmings.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 245, 10 March 1888, Page 5

Dairy Skimmings.

Tim Cross for Milking Cowp.— Edward Burnett, a dairyman of Southboro, Ma-s., says: — 14 1 would not advise farmers who own poor milking cows, and who are short I of money to invest in thoroughbred stocks | but I do advise them to grade up their milking stock with Jersey and Guernsey balls. The result will be cows that will give from 15 to 17 quarts of milk a day when iiesh. And they will hold put longer than almost any other breed or grade, so that in the loigrnn the amount or food they produco will equal or oxcel that of the average Holstein, and at the same time the milk will be of a richer quality and higher standard. If I were starting in the milk business nimin, or if, as a practical farmer, I were to embark in the production of milk as a money crop, I would buy grade Jeiseys ov Guernsey*, and if they weio graded on the Ayrshire, ho much the better. 1 tell you, we do nob half appieciale what the Ayrshire has done for New England. It is a splendid breed, with many excellences, and when the Aryshire has received an infusion of Jersey or (Juernsey blood, it makes the perfection of a milk-producer, to my mind. Such a grade pioduces a large How of milk and keeps it up for a long time. The milk is of splendid quality as food. It is not too rich in tat, like Jersey milk, nor is it deficient in fat and over-rich in caseine like the milk of the typical thoroughbred Ayrshire, but it is of a high standard quality and an evenness of composition that makes i it the par exedh nra of miik for market, and that is milk tor lamily use "

StrkaKV Bacon. —The means of securing a due proportion of lean in bacon is to give the pigs oxerci&e ; the want of it makts pigs masses of fat, with very little lean. All pigs should, tor at least a, poition of their lives, be turned out where they can root, and so much the better if there i& anything in the ground that they can eat, such as iho remaining potatoes or ground artichokes left in digging, whilo they are death upon cockchafers and all other grubs or insects'. They may be albO allowed in the orchard, where their rooting will do little or no harm, whiio they may destroy grubs, and will eat up tho weeds and fatten upon the wormy apples A sufficient number of pigs might save the ploughing of a fallow lield, and v»w«ild leave it clean.

Laval Separators and Indian Dairying. —The Dairy Supply Company, of Museumstreet, London (who are tho sol* agents in the United Kingdom for the Laval separators), are about to try the experiment, says the London Field, of introducing theto machines into the Indian empire and into China and Japan, for which countries they have juet been granted the exclushe right of sale. For this purpose the ' Baby ' would seem to be eminently fitted. The dairying dono in India is conducted on a very sm-'ill scale. Ficsh cream and butter from milk drawn frum the cowa half an hour previously will be a great boon to the European community, by whom it will be much appreciated; while the fresh skimmilk will be a valued article of food amongst the natives. We doubt if the ordinary native could work one of the larger hand separators for any length of time, but the " Baby "i* well within their power. The Maharajah of Jodhpore purchased a complete outfit of English dairy appliances at the last Royal Countieß show at Heading, including a manual-power Laval cream separator, and it will be interesting to learn the 1 esult of the experiment. In that tropical climate a rapid separation of the cream from the milk is a most important point, and it is the inability to procure a sufficiently rapid separation which is chiefly accountable for the backward condition of Indian dairying. Labour is cheap, and it is probable that tho introduction of manual-power cream separators, and of other dairy appliances, will exert some influence upon the agricultural future of our great Eastern empire.