TARANAKI CONDITIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 79, 29 April 1909, Page 3

TARANAKI CONDITIONS.

EXCELLENT OUTLOOK. States the New Zealand Times: A man interested in mine production, who has just returned from a visit to Taranaki reports an exceptional autumn in the butter-fat province. The autumn of last year, he says, was a particularly good one, but it was not as favorable for the milk producer as tiiat just coin- j ing to a close. The pastures are still I giving good feed, with 111.' result tii.it cows are holding mil weil. A week's cold weather will, howewr. quite settle] tiie milk How, for towards the end of] the lactation period it dees not take, much to rapidly reduce i'. Hut t hi-1 dairyman is not troubled about this. The' season was an *.nlv "lie. it has already lasted well, and being s.Hisfactorv he does not mind how soon it comes to 'an end. lie wants to attend U» other matters, and the con's can do with a lost. Thou winter dairying docs not pay. It is better that the cows should come to milk in the spring in good condition and (it to start oil' strongly on a big milking season than that the last ounce should be taken out of them.

The most satisfactory news our informant brings from Taranaki. however, is that there is an abundance of winter feed, especially of maize .ensilage. The practice of growing maize to feed green in the early months of the year, ami, if not then' required, converting it into silage, is rapidly spreading. That Oris so is one of the most happy auguries we could have in regard to dairying, for the weakness of the industry in the past: has been the neglect, of the stock in the winter and the failure to provide succulent feed in the drier months'of the year or during a period of drongnt.