FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 28 May 1907, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

J.upnovixci- TIIE miKY hkkd. J lie prosoiil. Dairy Co : n„,i siom-r for lh °- T0 ", ,1 '- V ' ilr U - L'midie, holds pro"01111™! V »-'«'S upon tile necessity of proving 11,, (jintiiiy of dairv i,e,-,ls ."f Zealand is lo make and , ,K beyond th„ position She Ims already secured for her dairv produce. JUr C.iuldic i■< a believer in the fonnation of cow testing associations in different centres, » s was done in Benmark years ago, with good results. An.other country, the Dominion of CutaW ada, is now embarking upon this mi-an* Of improving the quality of her dairv produce. In Canada when any twent'v tanners agree to weigh tile milk froiii cad' COW on three days during the month through tile milking period ;■ ml furnish themselves with scales and sample bottles, costing from 10s to 12s complete,the Minister of Agriculture for the nonunion announces that ollieers of his department will do the testing free of cost. Canadian dairy farmers desirous of organising communicate with the Dairy Commissioner, who arranges for meetings to discuss he question. Jt is ten years since cow testing associations were first organised in Denmark. That they are popular and that the people: believe m them is attested hy the fact tnat there are nine thousand farmers who are having their cows tested systematically. The result of the workhas been lo raise the average proline! ion per cow from 25 lo even SOlhs of butter per year. This is proof that systematic testing ]mys tin* fnrmor ivoll. Who* would refuse to do the small amount of "work a,lint-lied when there is a gain of froni 20s to 40s from e ich cow per year? The foundation for this work has been conducted hv the Dairv Commissioner's lVparlnient. _ The results of these tests have be-ii widely published and cannot but have a wholesome effect in inducing dairy farmers to look well to what their cows are doing. Similar action ought to be t-iken hy the dairy farmers of New Zealand.—l'.xchangp.