FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 194, 21 September 1909, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

BREED YOUR OWN COWS. No dairyman can buy such cows ae ho wants. The breeding and rearing ut the best cows is a skilled art, and. ill apprenticeship is required for facility in it. Consequently the best cows are sold at high prices, equivalent to the value of the services of the skilled per-, eons who roar them, and the rarity of the animals. But there 7s a great opportunity for those who are able to breed ami rear this class of eows to make a business of it. For there are few persons who keep cows for profit who can supply themselves, and the many who are desirous of procuring them. And especially is there a demand for winter cows, that is, sucli as come in late in the year, so as to be available for the more profitable and convenient winter dairy. The great difficulty in starting such a dairy is (o get the. ordinnrv cows to come in the right season, and to secure _ tli'S unavoidable requirement of a winter dairy the cows must be bred for it, so that they may come in when two years old, at just the right time. Experience has shown this tu be the easiest anl most ceitiiin way to succeed in starting a winter dairy. Thus there is an opening for the profitable rearing of cows to meet the special demand.

BREVITIES. An improvement in blood calls for a corresponding improvement in keeping. A warm bed is worth many pounds of fcvil during ft spell of rough weather.

Constitution is an inherited- characteristic—one that is born with the animal.

Hundreds of chicks are lost each year by careless feeding during the month of their lives.

The food of dairy cows should lie the yerv best that can lie had, and free from aromatic substances.

A young boar or sow that is intended for breeding purposes should be cared for -well and kindly treated. Agriculture is the true foundation o c all trade and industry—it is the foundition of the riches of States.

The public should be prepared to meet all the cost of adequately inspecting | the condition of dairy entile. The utmost cleanliness should be observed, not only with dairy utensils, bnt also about the eows and stables. All the pans or milking pails, refrigerator and pans, churns, and utensils should be thoroughly cleansed and scalded. Feel that you are a farmer with the same spirit that a professional man says he is a doctor, a lawyer, or a minister.

So long as agricultural affairs are if their growing stage, just so long will each farmer have an opportunity to do more. Cleanliness is the first fundamental requisite from the cow to the separator in tlie production of butter of extra quality. Chicks that run at large will he'p themselves to green feed, but ■when confined in small yards such food mu6t be supplied. It is unfortunate for our agriculture that the pendulum is constantly swinging too far first to one extreme and then to another.

It is a fundamental requisite of the creamery business that integrity permeates even' transaction of the creamery management.

Buyers met the directors at Kaponga and Riverlea on Friday, but 110 business resulted. There were 15 buyers in Opunakc on Wednesday, hut negotiations were not concluded.

Devonshire butter Im#? a good name, so Xe"w Zealand butter goes down to Devonshire, and w to London as prime Devonshire, and the British public pays 3d per lb more for it than the same Xew Zealand butter would bring under its own nam*. Shops are wantfd to sell New Zealand butter an l cheese for what it is also.

Auckland is again agitating to hj? made the final port of departure for ocean butter steamers. Under existing conditions, the butter exported from the Auckland' province has to be railed from the freezing works in the city to On»'hunga. where it is placed on board the Corinna. The Corinna takes it to Wellington, calling at New Plymouth on the way. Naturally the several exposures between the freezing works at Auckland and the steamer's hold at Wellington cause a rise of tempcratur?, which, it is held, makes the butter deteriorate. Auckland interests are claiming that Auckland should be either the regular final port or the final port altor. j natcly with Wellington.