FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 332, 26 January 1909, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

! ilTor milli supplied during December, the Kaponga Dairy Co. paid out iouJH) oft the 20th inst. Approximately the amount of cheese manufactured was iuu tons. .. Jlr J.-A. KinseUa, Dairy Expert to the IWerf Australian Department of Agriculture, tautions dairy fanners with regard to feeding cows on a rank ration : "lay more attention to the time of ieeding and, if strong llavourcd foods are fed. they should be given in conjunction ■with some other fodder, such as maize, Ibarlev, lucerne, or clean straw, it tinnips are fed to milch cow*, they should ,be topped and tailed, and fed with maize, etc. Turnips, rape, etc, when given to milch cows should always be fed atter milking. When turnip tops, rape, ami -other very strong-flavoured.foods are fed injudiciously it is impossible to make -.bom the milk a first-class article: « Vbutter, even if pasteurisation is icsO.U I So. When carrots and beets are fed tluv should be given in the propor .on » about one bushel per cow per da> foi « heavy milker is right, and added to that should be at least live pound* of corn, ton. and oilcake.' Tanners from the Wsborne d.»tnct are making wteaavc .purchases; of.a. in the Manawatu. Mr J. L- ,<11 >;.." successful breeder. . , Mrß.Tan..er,ofl ; o,.glm.n.ha J^t U probably a ««ml 'ffi oats this year. He n.is J" threshing/ami the cop roin som 30 acres lias P«» I10(l ollt "' l """ c i ? >'. *"e This is all the more remark. ■. awe. ~,, J.., written as Mr J Thomson, M.i.. pa* ""„ -Xs'-Jthe Prime Minister:- The--settler can take up * t ™ U9t *T?Z JS Is weighted for jrjtU «***?£%£, that would I* persons have snap V *f ™ , l„, c froI „ traffic m *c buMi. inc which would help » to "ted inXSding. ; .Udm taw dissatisfaction, a»'l ** tn uirirtil)B , jful consideration."