Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43315, 21 April 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

PURE MILK.

Wende says it must be accepted .that milk is a source of transmission of bovine tuberculosis, particularly in early life. He grades dairies into three, classes, and describes the handling of the milk from it's source to-the consumer. He criticises the ' State supervision and describes the methods of. the Health Board of Buffalo. He. demands a stricter supervision and control by the State; a dairy, standard and a license and permit system; the evolution of the standard grade large individual ice ... producer and the extinction of the small menacing contributer; the dairy to be a preparer an 4 not a mere producer; the adoption of refrigerator cars and cooling chests; the- city ipilk-dealer to be a contributor, not a manipulator; abolition of milk cans and adoption of single service paper containers for direct consumption from udder to mouth. The container can be made an educator by labelling it with pertinent facts.

: v , . ■- ■. ';' A l half-bred Jersey cow, the < property of Mr C. Rumbel, of Salisbury (N.S.W.), is stated to have giv*n the remarkable test of 8.4 per cent of butter-fat. Despite the dry season, the bee Industry in Masterton is in a thriving condition., ’ It is anticipated that the J quantity of honey exported this season will be in excess of that of previous years. * • The Belfast (Canterbury) Freezing 3|Works have just completed their Hfast quarter of a century’s work. Tip to January 1 there had been put through these works 9,048,732 sheep and lambs, i5>995| cattle, and 52,248 pigs, - A crop of Dun oats at the ' Lincoln Agricultural College which was threshed lately, gave a return of 72 bushels per acre. A paddock of wheat 'gave a return of 51 bushels per acre, the grain being of exceptionally good quality.