FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 18 October 1907, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

Ilie sooner milk is cooled after beiii" drawn the better it will keep. ° Pedigree counts for much, but without individual merit it is not worth ;niything. ' "

Beautiful cows are not those that appear best on canvas in pictures, but ou the balance-sheet in hard cash. Xo man can tell what a cow will do in the production of milk until she has been giving milk for two or three years.

Performances most enjoyed by dairymen are not exhibitions of cows' fancv dancing and high-kicking, but inilk-pati performances. What a man wants to know about a cow, a hen, a man, or a firm is, do s it deliver the goods! If it doc- not, no one has any use for it.

It is recognised that for rapid anl clean skimming of large quant.ties »t milk done of the older systems can approach a good separator on effectiveness.

When will dairymen, stockbreeders, and general farmers learn the value of the silo? Its importance increases as crops diminish from drought or other causes.

Promote cows that do not come up to the average yield of the herd. Give them a walk off the farm. Replace them with cows that can and d(T keep above the average yield. The question of ''keeping record*" of dairy oows is engaging world-wide attention. So one can claim to be an up-to-date dairyman who does not keep individual records of his herds.

Scrupulous cleanliness, as in all other matters connected with dairy stock, is the main essential—cow with clean udder, mil It with clean hands and a gentle touch, and clean shed and yard. Mangold wurzel or mangel wurtzel, which is the more correct name of the root? The origin of the name is the German "mangel-want wurzel-root," meaning the root that is useful in times of want. When trouble with stringy milk arises it is usually overcome by cleaning the cow's udder before milking, washing the milker's hands, and thoroughly steaming the tinware, strainer cloths, can, etc. To reach the highest degree of sueecjs, cows should be selected and bred to IVspand to machine-milking. If this factor is taken into consideration, machinemilking will be equally as successful as hand-milking. The silo is undoubtedly the most economical way of handling green fodder, storing much in a small space, and keeping it in the best condition to feed, thereby increasing dairy profits and correspondingly enriching the farm. A good herd cannot be built up when the best cows are sold off. Of course the buyer will pay more for the best, but they will return you more than the extra price he offers. The chances arc that some of the poorer ones are not paying for their board,"and it is economy to "sell them at any price.