DAIRY SKIMMINGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 367, 11 May 1889, Page 4

DAIRY SKIMMINGS.

Consumption of Da iky Products. — Hoard* Dairyman is of the opinion that " the whole world don't eat half as much milk, cream, butter, cheese and buttermilk as it ought to ; and a cow can be kept in good working condition on half the land, for half the money she was twenty years ago." Also that "we are to gee dairy products produced more cheaply and millions more of people revelling in the greater consumption of dairy products, ere long."'

Somk Good Jkrsky Goa\s. — During last year the Jersey Bulletin, an American publication, reported 92 cows as having made 14 lbs of butter and over in seven days. I The figures are aa follows :—: — j

The above record is a striking testimony to the value Jerseys as butter producers.

The American Lam- against Oleomaroakixe. — A difficulty in connection with the working of the Oleomai'garine Act in the United States has arisen on the question of the lawfulness of using colouring matter containing cotton-seed oil. The Act requires any mixture of pure butter with any extraneous fat or oil to be sold as oleomargarine, but distinctly reserves the light of colouring butter. Now, to make the matter sold for colouring combine properly with butter, it has to be made up with some kind of oil or fab, and cotton seed oil is commonly used for the purpo^a in America. The quantity Uso small that there would nob be any serious objection to the practice if it were not for the clanger of opening a loophole for more extensive adulteration, should fcho infringement of the law against the introduction of any extraneous fat be distinctly sanctioned. This is the difficulty out of which the Commissioner of Revenue appears unable to see hid way clearly, though he has been appealed to for a distinct judgment upon the question.

Hari> Mrr.KKR«. — Professor Sheldon says the reason that some cows are such hard milkers is that the hole at the end of the teat is too small. He remedies the defect by inserting in the teat a cone shaped ivory, bone, or hard wood plug of proper size, after milking, letting it remain until the next milking. Oil the plug well before inserting and no harm result?. Repeat until the cow milks easily. The orifice thus enlarged will remain so permanently.

Whole ant> Skim Milk Chkksjj. — The Orctui/c County Farmer says : "The cheese made from skimmed milk is poor stuff, but it is valuable food for those who can eat ifc and cannot afford to buy better. We do not object to its manufacture, because no one i$ ever swindled by it. By no possible means can it be sold lor full cream cheese. The worst fraud in the business is tho half ckim cheese. This is almost invariably sold for full cream — at loasfc to the consumers, and just here is where it is so harmful ; if this could be driven out of the markot the demand for cheese would very greatly increase." We heartily agree with our contemporary and we have been told that a cheese factory not far from Auckland (now closed), bragged privately through its directors, that it had exported half-milk cheese as the genuine article. Such dishonesty deserved to fail, and we scarcely know which to despise most, the dishonesty or the stupidity of such tricks.

Polled Cows as Dairy Animals.— An English writer says that a few years ago he was allowed to see the books of two town dairies' wherein the produce of each cow, in pint?, was carefully fet down. In both fchere were cows of almost every known breed, Shorthorns, Irish, Welsh, Polled, Channel Islands, and Dutch. In neither was the greatest yield per day that of a Polled cow. But, in both, the top place for an annual yield was held by a Polled cow. And both the animals who had won this distinction woie of the Suffolk type, i.e., rather flat-sided, and big-headed cow.«, with rough top-knots. This type may frtill be found in Suffolk heads of Red Polls, though not in Norfolk. It is rather unsightly ; but are we quite sure that in insisting on one type of prettiness in show animals wo are not fighting, not only against our own interest, but our own pleasure too ? Ifc is good to find gratification in various flavours. A damson is not without merit though it is not like a greengage

33 Ibß and over 27 lbs and over 25 )bs and over 26 lbs and over 22 lbs and over 21 lbs and over 20 lbs and over 19 lbs and over 38 lbs and over 17 lbs and over 16 lbs and over 15 lbs and over X lbs and over 1 cow. 1 cow, 1 cow. 1 cow. 1 cow. 3 cows. 4 cows. .3 cows. G cows. 11 cows. Jo cowg. 17 cows. 28 cows. Total 92