A GRATIFYING MOVEMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 299, 14 December 1908, Page 4

A GRATIFYING MOVEMENT

J'ASMXC 01' TIIIC Dl'AI, I'L'KI'ONI-; I'ATTMi l-'i: IJ.-SII. SrEi'JAi, TYI'JvS ALOXK I'tJOKITAIII-l-:. A di-thn-t i-viiltilinii is tukiuir ptarc in the cuttle of this (saysthc \"W Zealand Times). The i-<^ : j.u'nsibl.- principle is that dairymen are at last awakening to llu- absurdity of the letisli, too lung worshipped, timt the dairy and beef types can he combined in the one animal. It is an age of specialisation, and the dairylurmer is falling into line, lie is coining to realise that fhe highest jirolit in milk production can only 1m- secured through the special purpose type, and that it will not pay him to tool any longer with the cow which can he readily converted into beef and the male stock of which will make good stores for the fat.tener. Some evidence of this fact is all'orded by the present position of tile beef market. There is a great scarcity of four to live-year-old cattle, dircctl'v line to the wholesale -laughter of male cjUvur in Taranaki. Station-people, taking advantage of the trend, bred more freely in the buck-country, with Hie result that younger stock i- in rather better -upply. And if Taranaki has failed as

a source nl an extensive supply of store cattle the change ha.- not been without its advantages to the beef trade. The beef-breeder- have used special beef blood, and, the general quality of the

slock being olfercd exhibits a' distinct improvement, over the quality of past' years. This is not .being evidenced in the heavy iveights in the saleyards. but it is distinctly noticeable in the younger stlllV.

Tile dairy-farmer's failure to provide stores for the grazier is advantageous in several ways. It is leading In Hie production of a higher quality of beef animal, is encouraging tbe milk-prodm-v to have a better appreciation of dairy form, and is leading to greater interest being taken in tbe' produc-lion of pigs, the. best side line the duirvfarincr can take up. fori! i- undoubted'-kim-milk is turned to lietter and more immediate advantage in feeding it to pig- than t i steer calve-.

If the majority <if l li.. daiivfarincrs o f Taranaki arc onlv rai>iii"; the licst of their heil'er calves, ilie who!., tendency Hi' tin- province i> Id iiii-]'i-ii-,c this -mind policy of dairymen <-oiiftiiin<r (heir attc:ilioii 1,. raisin;; „u!v daii'v-lock. ami iloiii"' tlri'in w,.!|. ami li-hvinu il to llio grazier to breed 1„. ( .f stock. Vli.. .ler-v i- till' comine cow of Taranaki. ami even those fanner- wlm do not intend to !>o in for (he purebred .levsev will pruhnMv iw a bull of the 1,,-,.,.,! „„ ii,,.ir K ra.le I Shorthorns |„ briu- „,, ,|„, butter fill standard. This means that what steers are raised i„ 11„. huttcr-fal. proviiic-i- r.: the fin live will |„. less valuable than ever as heef ..toek. |

As the area of country in 'J'aranaki on which it. iviiiiM |,av to rear sleers Incomes less uml less, (he line of cleavage hcluceu heel ami milk |iroiluelion mll l " ,| '"» ore marked, till the .lav will h.i|. Ue l',ir ilislanl. wlien Hie t,w'n umloilakili-s ivill he iIS far a|,art as (he poles. «Uli the very .alisl'aclorv rcuU "'"I Hi" iii'lkiiii.' slock, as well us IJ.e 1-eef slnck. will be „f ;l hi ~„,,. ~.,( , „„„.„ profitable standard.