The Dairy Farming Outlook.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4393, 1 April 1909, Page 2

The Dairy Farming Outlook.

(BY J.C.A.)

It is satisfactory to note the great expansion which is taking place in the Dairying Industry, and the stock raising capabilities of the Auckland province. Auckland has for the first time headed the list of ports for the export of butter, and therms every reason to believe that there will be no going back from this position. When we look at our immediate district, and realize that fully a half a million acres of rich alluvial land are now being drained by the Government in c iiineot on with its Piako Swamp drainage scheme, land which is near to Te A rob a and Paeroa, and within an easy di tince of two splendid butter factories, we can form some idea of what this will mean to our district. I can readily be ! understood how the output of butter w.ll be increased im mensi ly. In imagination we can already sc thousands of people coming from these, at present uuinhabited, lands to Te Aroli-i to bo refreshed by its ba'hs and beautiful drinking waters in the Domain. We have also to note the large increase in the stock expoited from out surrounding districts. It is expected that this year at least 100,000 lambwill be put through the Farmers’ Freezing Company’s! Works at Southdown, an increase of 50,000 on the previous year. While it is cheering to no'e the large increase which has taken place, there is one point in the Dairying Industry which farm rs are usually very careless about, and that is the culling out of the worst cows from their herds. There are milked at present many cows which are not worth feeding No better example of the advantages of culling can be found than looking at Mr Driver’s herd ne r Waitoa, By judicious culling he has so raised his standard that for January his c »ws averaged ov**r 30s per head for butter fat a record for cows in the Auckland province. If farmers would only systematically test tlr ir cows, and cull out the p'-or one?, they would find the dairying industry to be even more profitable thui at present. Probably with the example set by Mr Driver, culling will so mi become the order of the day with our farmers, and a poor milking cow at no distant date will be a thing’ of the past. Every credit is to be given ti “ The Te Ahoha News,” under its new management, for its commendable attitude towards the interests of our farmers and the strong support with which it has advocated the advancement of our dairying industry.