AGRICULTURE IN JAPAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43372, 12 September 1908, Page 4

AGRICULTURE IN JAPAN.

“ J.S.” writes from Tokio to tbd “ Scottish Farmer. ” :—The virtues of the Ayrshires are well- known herej la Hokkaido, the north island, they are favoured, and in . .winter com£ through frost and snow not exceeded in the experience of their ancestors ip S :otland or Canada. In the main island the familiar shapes and colours axe met with. In Formosa they find the semi-tropical environments doubtless a little enervating, but there they are. Some of the imported AyiJshires have been brought from America and from Australia, oh account of the lower eo?t of transport and greater convenience. Bluebloojd aristocrats directly from the cradle of the breed are naturally feyver. Every movement that raisis the credit of the breed at home in the stock nursery of the world will .create responsive interest in the far corners of the eirth. Dairying out here is said to be. ft profitable indurtey, and the price of milk is high enough to leave a margin where the co,w does her duty. The total number of cows kept is still small, relative to the population, and milk at from 5 d to lOd per quart remains something- of a luxury, and beyond the reach many. Feeding is done on the soiling system, and n Less during their dry period, or in Hokkaido, in the summer season, cows are not pastured, -