CORRESPONDENCE. AGRICULTURAL. MR. COURTNEY AND HIS CADETS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 95, 7 May 1900, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

AGRICULTURAL.

MR. COURTNEY AND HIS CADETS.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] ' j

TO THE EDITOR, Bib,—Seeing "Agricola" is stuck at the question set to the students of the Canterbury Agricultural College I wish, through your columns, to give him a hand out of the mire, viz,, " How much cream would you require to make a pound of butter? and how much milk of average quality would you require to separate so as to get sufficient cream ?" Here is an answer that would carry full marks with any examiner : A. Conditions that cause variations:— (1) Thickness of the cream. (2) Temperature at which churned, (3) Maturity of the cream, i.e., sour or sweet. (4) The above being constant, then 2£ lbs, of separated cream will yield lib. of butter. B. 2J gallons of whole milk would need to be separated to obtain sufficient cream to make one pound of butter. " Agricola " will note that the examiner was fishing for more than bare figures in the first portion of the question. Why ask the factory managers to solve so simple a question ? where are the farmers ? Surely they could affix a proper answer ? If not, then I say it is time they and " Agricola" went to swell the enrolment list of the above College, an institution of which New Zealand, as a rising colony, ought to be proud,—l am, etc.,

Drawn Our. New Plymouth, May sth.

TO THE EDITOR. Slit,—Seeing in the papers that there exists an averse feeling by a few people against Mr. Courtney in his right in bringing out parties of young men as farm cadets to Taranaki from the Old Country, I think it right I should say a word for him. As one of his last party, I have been put on a farm such as he promised me before leaving England, which has turned out to be a very good home for me. I have found that Mr. Courtney keeps every promise he has made, and things have i'ven turned out better than I expected, rloping he will be successful in bringing out future parties, — l am, etc., Wai.tbu Jons Br9ad. 801 l Block, May 4.

[This correspondence must now cease —Ed. News.]