FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 March 1907, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

.WHY DAIRYING PAYS,. 1. It takes less fertility out of liie soil than any other form of agriculture, and hence it is useful ill following a well-re-gulated system of rotation. 2. It can be combined readily with other tonus of agriculture or horticulture. 3. 'l'he dairy provides in winter a quantity of stable manure ill which the straw from tlus barn is profitably used. 4. The by-products from the cow, skim-milk, wliey, and buttermilk, are a source of income in raising pigs and ■calves. f>. Dairying gives constant and regular employment, of a light character to every member of a farmer's family. li. Dairying inculcates habits of punctuality, industry, cleanliness, and thrift oil a farm. 7. Cheese ami butter are condensed products and the cost of carriage in comparison with their value, ii less than of any farm product. 8. The demand for good butter and cheese oil the world's markets is unlimited, anil so long as the quality is maintained, an all-round, even and profitable price can be secured. !t. The monthly cheque (Vom the i'acLory provides the mainstay in the household, as against the precarious returns from yearly crops. 10. In mixed larming the income from the dairy is the most reliable.

11. The fanner's household, as a result of daily work, is always supplied with fresh milk and cream, butter, pork, bacon and veal.

12. Storekeepers, traders, bankers, Jin - ancial men and politicians all fully realise, after years of experience, that when ever dairy farming is conducted, farmers are moat prosperous, mortgages arc rarely found, and the value of landed property becomes considerably enhanced.

A Southland resident, who has just returned after spending some months in Australia, slates that he has collected some absolutely reliable information ill regard to the value of land in the Commonwealth, as indicated by the producing power. Unquestionably, some of the data furnished by him is interesting. lie begins by the reminder that Australia is u land of great extremes. You can get any climate and any quality of soil according as you select your locality. Some of the most fertile lands are on river llats in .*ew South Wales aud South (Jueeiisland and in certain districts in Victoria, lie instanced the Karoit district, Victoria. There he found a farm of seven acres given over entirely to the cultivation of onions. The onion crop in this district averages tifteen tons per acre, and the return from seven acres was £7t>2. Bacchus Marsh is one of the most fertile districts in Victoria. Here one acre of lucerne fed—in hay, ensilage, aud green food, according to the seasons—six cows and twelve horses, and kept them in excellent condition for the whole year. Stock were not allowed the run of the field, but the crop was cut and given to the stock. In the best districts tile lucerne crop can be cut six times in the season. In North Quecnsand the value of river flat land suitable for dairying is from £2 an acre to between ClO and Glo. In the extreme north of Victoria where, the average New Zealaudor imagines there is nothing but sandy parched wastes, there is magnitieent wheat land, with a mean annual rainfall of from 2l)in. to 20in.