CLIPPINGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

As a tule, a cow's best \so\k i* done fiom her third to her tenth %car, .-a>» the Amiiiuii J)u in/man. After the eighth j eai you had better become pu^piciou^ of her, and unless -he i- an e\tia <, r ood one, lft her go fairow and feed her hea\ il\ , and let the butcher or the beef fattener ha\e her at hi* own titruic-.

li vw\<: Dvinv He':i»>.— lf we are ever to take a hiyh place a- a dair} fanning country, Kew Zealand faime-i- mu-t tmn their attention to lai-ir.g their own tlaiiy co\^ in-tead of bujing them. The feetliti'_c of the heifer calve 5 ha- a gieat deil to do w ith their after excellence a- milkers, and we hope the prohtle— practice ot indi-cnmiii-ate'y knocking cal\e- on the head a- -con as bom, will be discontinued in theinteiests of our daily m>iu-tiio. Theie Iprobably no feed so good for lai-ing trood dairy aniinaK a? warm skim-milk with a mixture of moderate quantities of giound oatc scalded. The milk and oats contain a large amount of muscle and bone mateiial, and, as a consequence, we ha\e a co'» with an exce'lent constitution and a good m/l<l fiame.

A (.HIM VN Ml/THOU OF W W[IN«. Bl Tl'l X —The following is a plan of washing bultci which wa= patented in Geimanya few seaia( r 0 : — A- ?oon as gatheicdin the chum m particles of about a tenth of an inch in 4/<\ it h> tran-feirul to a centiiiugal machine uJki.-c drum i^ picicod wi)h holes and ,ined wjth a hnen «aek that i^. tinally taken out with the butter. As -oon as the machine i^ ?et in rapid motion the butteimilk be^m- to escape; a of water thrown into tho levohin^ dram uabhc-^ out all foici^n matters adhering to the butter ; thi- wa-h-ing is kept up' till the \ui-h-watci come aw\iy clean, and the revolution is then continued till the last drop of water is removed as clothes are dried' in the centiifugal wringer ; the dry butter i- then taken oub, moulded and picked. It h claimed that the product thu*. fully and quickly freed from all impmitie-, without any woiking or kneading, ha^ a fine ila\our, aroma and grain, cuid better keeping qualities than when prepared foi the niaiket in the ordinary way.

Bil\n' Water and Milk Yitli^. — A writer in the Sov'hu-n Fanner f-ays that hi>cow dvc all the milk that u wanted in a family of eight, and that from it, after taking nil that h required for other puipo.seC 260 pounds of butter weie made thi.s year. This i? in part hi-> treatment of the cow .__« If you desire to get a large jield of rich milk give your cows every day water .slightly warmed and '•lightly salted, in which bi.inh.is been stirred at the rate 01 one quai tto two gallon* of water. You will find it you ha\c not this daily practice, that your cm will gi\o twenty -Hve per cent, more miiW immediately under the eflects of it, and will become so al t ached to the diet as to refuse to uiink e'ear watei unless very thirty. T>ut this mesi f-he u ill consume almost any time and ask for more. The amount of Ihi-, drink necessary i^> an ordinary wciter pail at ;i time, morning, noon, and night.' To the above we would just add that unie-s a cow be well fed with good substantial food while thub treated her strength will be exhausted beloie long ; but there is no doubt that bran and warm water thus administered will make a great increase in the milk flow.

Gore Dairy Factoky.— -This factory, which is piobably the largest and most successful of its kind in the colony, is proving a satisfactory venture to its promoters*. The general manager, writing recently to Mr Valentine, M.H.R., say* that all their season's make of cheese, about 12 tons, had been sold f.o.b. at Bluflf at s£d per lb to a Brisbane firm, and they could have disposed to fcamo firm ten tons more at this figure if they had if. Some Tapanui people who had recently been at Gore were about to start a dairy faclory on the same line as the Cloie factory. "It is patisfactory to know," the writer addb, " that our endeavours have been successful, and that wo have now brought the industry to a paying point."