DAIRYING at TE AROHA.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1738, 11 May 1895, Page 2

DAIRYING at TE AROHA.

Now that the dairying- season is over settlers who have been supplying the creameries with milk have an opportunity to review the work of the season, balance accounts, and compare the result of dairying and other departments of farm work in order to ascertain which is the more profitable of the many uses to which small holdings may be put. There has been quite a furor amongst those settlers who have supplied the Waikato creameries with milk on account of the small percentages-of butter fat that were obtainable; yet notwithstanding this and other drawbacks they have had to contend with, it is really remarkable how well they have been paid for their summer’s labour Let us give an instance of a smalL. settler in our ~ own immediate distinct who • milked on an average only seventeen cowsjforthe season which yielded two i * and one - third gallons per day each. The milk was delivered at the creamery daily ;! (S undays excepted ) from’the Ist Sep:ember to the 30th April, in all 30 weeks, for which he received the handsome return.of £IOO. In addition to this he was able to make 12lbs of butter per week from the Sundays’ milk this was sold for 8d per lb to the local storekeeper, winch totalled for the season £l2. The cows being well-bred he was able to get good prices for calves of which he had nineteen, he sold 14 for £l9 and is keeping five for his own use, which shofild be worth fifteen shillings each as they are younger than those sold, value £ 3 15k. This was not all, he kept a few pigs which supplied the i” home with sufficient bacon for the winter use, besides which he obtained £6 from the sale of. young ones. From the Bame cows this industrious settler was able to derive considerable revenue before the creamery opened in the m< nth of September, the actual amount being some £29. Thus the product of the 17 cows for the one . season reached the handsome amount of £169 15s. This is no exaggerated story, but one of actual fact. Th e figures do not represent all the product of the cows, the family were able to live, and live well, being supplied with , buttei and milk whiph has not been, calculated. Two boys are i sufficient to do the milk"ng, and as a rule the work is all don- b the family. This proves what can be done, dispite all the adverse circumstances against which the struggling settler has to contend. We are pleased to learn that considerable new land will be brought under cultivation indbis district during the winter. Settlers are now beginning to awake to their own interests, and no doubt in the course of a few years the la-ge area of good swamp laud in this Upper Thames Talley will be grassed -v, and dotted .ydch Immesleads, and to blosnom as the rose. -