The Lost Profit.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42798, 28 October 1905, Page 2

The Lost Profit.

Dairying could be made a much more profitable industry if those who engage in it would conduct it on business principles. A farmer, by a judicious system of culling and breeding, can increase his milk supply fully / 50 per cent, without adding to the number of bis milking cows a single one. The following case will show how easily it can ' be done. 'Mr Rawson, of Oponui, in the Bay of Plenty district, milked the first season he started dairying, 35 cows, his larg* est day’s supply being , Gsolbs ; for the next season he culled his herd, and replaced the cows disposed of with others, milking the same number as tho previous season, his best day’s milk being 91 Olbs. The following year he got rid of 10 cows, this leav-. ing him 26. His milk reached 950 lbs for one day, being the same quanity as he got from 10 more cows two seasons previously. Not being satis* lied, lie culled again,' roplaqug jftm ones sold, and making his cows up to 27, his milk supply being 870 lbs. He is still culling his cows, and expects to have a herd in a few years that will average four gallons per cow. This should convince even the most sceptical that it will pay to put their dairying pursuits on a sound business footing, and thus secure 'the profit which, under the present'unO scienUlio methods so widely extant, they are losing year aitei 1 -year.—Wairoa Bell.