FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81898, 3 December 1906, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

i Speaking to a News man recently Mr VYyb»u>nc, secretary of the Riverdale factory, lnaha, near llawera, stnted thai next yeai 'will see milking machines in the majoiity of tlio sheds The demand for sma 1 engines ha s been so great this season on accoun ot the big sale of milking machines thai tlie whole coli riy has been clean e 1 out af them. Tlie Dairymen of the VVaimate Plains are putting in electric motors, with which to drive their milking machines. The power which is sup p icd by the electric company, wluch has its generating plant or. the Waingongoro river, is mos suitable for the puipase and will have a big vogue next year. Mr \Y. Wells, of Manaia, tells us that his mo to 1 ' is working most satisfactorily. The electrical company is being urged by fanneis to extend their lines up several roads.

Tin tn-t re,;.sun why land is drainec. is [y let in tlie oxygen beiwe.n tht minu'e -paces of soil, i'.ir the lantl plant must have oxygen at its root. 111 a foim in w.iicli it can use ii.

The pump u?vd in connection will milk i'fwr, whether bicyi'lo or other wis* 5 , can bo ea->ily sierili.W by Mecp ing il jn a tinec per cent. b<>luU.u oi carbolic acid. A pipe lil ed witl. rAciilisul cut ~n placed in a glass tubi and in cited in the rubber casing v.ill Meiili>c ihc air as it passu tiuough. Tlu milk supply at all the SouU I Inland factories is on the up-grade a a 1 piace- excepi North Oiago, wheiv i'- e quantity of milk oming foiwarc i> most disappointing, as a cor.se j ' qucnce of tiie drougnt and shoriagi ol feed. Ti.eit i> some talk of citing' the factory at Oamaru if the sup ply of milk docs not improve. Where ti.e fjim separator is used \y particular aboui running' it at evei. speed. Then a- soon as the work x completed '.cash it out thoroughly, sc that fermentation will nut set in, aiu. it wi 1 be in g.>ud condition to receive the ik'xl mi king. Kunning wain.water through the bcpaiator will as >isi in kecp.ng it in good condilio'i. A Nebraska dairyman once umsLl-l the milk of a cow alter she had ben. suffering the excitement of being chaxd about. The Babcock teste, showed 2.3 per cent, of butter-fat; the next morning the test slewed 4.1 pei'cent.; and 111 a week, when she i*ad I'cga.ned her calm composure, she teisud 0.2 per cent. The morai is obvi us.

At the llaymarket on Saturday was [overheard a lively argument on pigraising. man, who said lie would not go to the trouble o! keeping breedmg sows, and wno preferred to buy i'tuUer tbau raise lus young stock, claimed to have done better than i. neighbour, who had kept his sows ami bred his own pigs, In tlio argument it was said that keeping breeding animals did not bring benefits commensurate with the expense, unless il was done lu the too prevalent style 01 allowing the mother pig the run of a paddock, leaving her to exist without other food, and consequently being il iio lit condition for sueeesaiul furrowing.