FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 1 June 1907, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

HOW TO SECL'UK J'L'l'.K MILK. Mr 11. J. Kandolf Hemming, a solicitor who has spent many years in India, but is now in London, has invented a process of preserving milk, which enables the farmer lp bottle up unlimited quantities at a trilling cost. The Daily Mirror was shown a sample bottle, and the contents were as sweet and pure after IS weeks as though they had. just come from the His pracess is so simple that it is extraordinary no one has stumbled upon if before him. By a special aerating machine milk and other foods are placed under a pressure of carbonic acid gas so ell'ectually ;is to exclude air altogether. No undesirable chemical or physical change takes place in the food product. as in the case of sterilisation bv heat.

and the preserved article, when liberated, is exactly what is was at the time of aeration, except that a slight favor of carbonic acid ga-, is sometimes present anil even (his rapidly passes oil'.

Th» machine is not costly, for a "plant'' can be produced for about .C-KI. which will aerate 220 dozen imperial pint bottles with 2Sil> of carbonic acid gas for 2s Gil.

Mr lieaiminjr/s attention was drawn to food preservation during the plague K-pidcmic al Bombay, lie was told by a scientist that iie had been unable to trace a single case of plague to aerated water.

THE MILKING MACHINE. Certain thoiightless people who seem to imagine themselves moved by sentiment, but who, in fact, are animated by crass, lamentabel ignorance, are assuming to be grieved.that the Department oi j Agriculture, has lound a mechanical milker whicli it is able to approve. They bewail the passage of the milkmaid, for whom they explain that a clock-work device is to be substituted that will not be half so pretty and nice. These people never saw a milkmaid outside a pastel or a wssh drawing. They don't know that a milkmaid is a boy of twelve vcafs or more, who was yanked out of bed by his dad at about 3.30 a.m., dressed in a room where the water in the pitcher was frozen, grumbled liis way out to tlie barn, took a kick or two at bossy's slats and then got busy to tease the milk out of her. the while making plans to run away from home and become a brakeman or a pirate or a captain of industry. These folks who don't believe in the mechanical milker should know that milking by hand, with chilblained fingers, has been responsible for more crime, more wrecked homes, more treason and ' stratagems, more deep-seated, ineradicable misanthrophy, more dissatisfaction with our institutions, more desertion of the farm and overcrowding of the cities, more strain on popular government, more incitement to anarchy and sedition, than any other Milking by hand has meant the' difference between an idyl and nightmare to the boy things, throw the teacher out of the school house, and, ultimately, desert the simple, honest, honorable life of the farm to become a Corporation .lawyer, or a Senator, or something else equally discreditable. Knowing some of these things from frost-bitten experiences, we arc lirraly and frankly for the mechanical milker. We hail it as one of the greatest social benefactions of the gen-' eration. We know what it is going to do for this great country, and for the annual output of butter and'cheese. Tho languishing condition of these industries has long been occasion for concern. Tlie cow product of the country is now only a few billions, and really ought to be several more. The mechanical milker means that it will be. The mechanical milker means more to the Son of the Soil than would the realisation of the rosiest promises of all party platforms in a •lose election.—Boston, Mass., Journal.

A new cheese factory is to he started on the' Richmond road, Inglewood.

The quality of intelligence in horses is transmitted from generation to generation, and tends to increase under the teachings of man. I Break away from old-fashioned ideas unless they are good ones. Too many stay in the old places and hold to the old ideas, just because they are old. When will dairymen stockbreeders, and general farmers learn the value of silo? Its importance increases as crops diminish from drought and other causes. Horses are quite equal to doing their own crushing and grinding, and the extra mastication ensures a larger admixture of saliva which is essential to digestion.

"Weill worth," in the Farm, Field and Dairy says there is nothing to be gained by mixing bran with horse feed. Braas a food is not worth the money if costs.

By thorough and skilful cultivation the soil is broken up, or pulverised into a greater number of soil particles, and around each particle there circulates warm air and moisture, in which is dissolved the prepared plant food. The highest price realised for land of any considerable area in the Feilding district was made the other day, when Messrs A. H. Atkinson and Co. sold, on | behalf of Mr W. Koberstein, his 400-acre 'property on the Makino road, the price being C.17 per acre. Messrs Brewster and Wot ton, of Ohingaiti, were the purchasers.

A well-known authority in cheese circles declares that prices for cheese must ride very much lower next season. They are keeping up very well at present. A Southern factory sold its May and June output the other day at (id. To this the Dairyman replies:—We do not know who the eminent authority is that is here referred to, but we believe it is , and whether it is or not, we have to say that it is not given to this gentleman, or anyone else, to foretell, with even the slightest degree of accuracy, whether the markets of the Old Country are going to rise or fall. \\ hat, astonishes us is that newspapi ; vhlisli such stupid paragraphs. Doc /. „„t occur to these people that anyone who could forecast? (he market with any degree of accuracy could make a fortune in one ■season? Jt is j lls t about as easy to lorecasto the exact position of the world's markets for dairy commodities as to pick the winner of the Melbourne. Cup six months before the race.