FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 212, 13 October 1909, Page 1

FARM AND DAIRY.

COW-TIoTIXG. FIRST REPORT UF DAU-U'TIiLD ASSOCIATION. The lirat report on til'.' lirsl herd-tost ing association in thic country has been issued bv the Department of Agricul- | ture. It is more than satistarton. 'J*»e Assistant J>airv Commission r. .\'ir. w . M. Sin»!rton, who is in c/iarge of lh" work, has i*ays the Wellington Times) done it well. JIo is superintending the compilation of the lxiotds iii a manner deserving of the highest commendation, "The ligures from this first month's tost of the cows in the Dalelield Cowresting Association/ 1 reports Mr. Sin"J"lon. "should prove very mter«siing C o llie owners of these herds, and also to those who have not as yet undertaken this work. Some twenty-six herds ar- 1 tepresented. The yield of each cow has been calculated for the full period | i, whether the cow lias been milking all , that period or not) for the sake of making comparisons more apparent, aeculate, and instructive. The average cow of the herd producing the highest record for fat topped the list with 38,8®, ati.l at an average test of 3.41 per cent. The lowest yield -was from a herd which averaged 25.631b of fat per cow for tie same period, a difference of over 131b 0 f tat per cow. Valuing fat at Is per Id, this niake6 a difference of 13s per cow for the month of September. On a held of thirty cows this would amount lo £lO 10s.

"The cow giving the highest yield for the month produced 50.381b of fat. The lowest producer gave 11.521b of fat la the saiue time. The respective values at Is per lb format would be £2 lfls 4d ami lis (>d, Or it would take about five cows of the stamp of the entailer producer to yield as much fat as one cow equal to the best.

"The average cow of the association gave about 0401b of milk, testing 3.5 per cent, and yielding 32.001b of fat. This certainly indicates that there are many good cows included in the number tested."

The Stratford butter factory is turning out 70 boxes daily in excess of the amount made at this period last year. The "pig insurance scheme" in connection with the slaughtering at the local abattoirs seems to be working out satisfactorily- to the farmers. Last moil l!) seven pigs were condemned. Tile farmers supplying pj g3 f or the month paid i'O 10s in insurance, and the association paid out £l2 13s 3d on account of the condemned animals. The loss is thus distributed over a number instead of falling heavily on one or a few. "Reports from the country state (says the Oamnru Mail) that grass is in abundance and is growing rapidly. The erops are also making wonderful progress: One farmer who sowed his wheat with a fertiliser believes he will have to get a paddockful of sheep to keep it in check.

the Kaikoura Sun says it is reported lhat the retained portion of Flaxbournt-, held by the Messrs. 'ClifTord, has been offered to the Government. This comprises an area of several thousand acres in extent, some of the best of the country included in the estate at the time that the Government acquired the now settled part (from 40.000 to 4G,000 acres) in 1005. The Cnpe Campbell block (held liy Sir George Clifford and others) is rich limestone eountrv.

Manv people in Xew Zealand shou'ii lie interested to hear about the prospects of the Australian wheal: yield this reason. One of the leading' millers of ihe Commonwealth, Mr. J. S. Brunton, slated quite recently that he anticipated a record crop if onlv the weather continued favorable. He estimated that th u Queensland crop would yield 4,000,000 i.ushels, while in Xow 'Smith W.ia., ■■vhere the area ofland'under wheat this year was 34 per cent, greater than in inos, he anticipated that the total Yield tor the Slate would reach 28.000,000 bushels. Taking the whole of the Commonwealth, he estimated the total value of tlie wheat crop this season at betnecn I.) a'id 10 millions sterling. The exportable surplus, he thought,' would lx; about 1,200,000 tons.

llie ViiU-'.i Uvwiu'li of tin' Karmcra' I nion has rlc-r-if11 ■:I to ask the Department of Agriculture to institute e<voperativc experiments in its district. 'I lie Inmif'.i considers the experiments should lie in connection with maize, kaie 'iipe. mangolds, ami turnips, also the' top-dressing of pastures. Hit* states that a business man in Adelaide, writing to n friend in Ashliurton, says: ''You will lie glad to learn that South Australia will probably be favored tins year with one of the finest harvests she has ever known. The weather conditions at the present time are in every wav favorable, and I sincerely hope that our prognostications in this direction will he fully verified." A Hawki's Bay runlioldcr has handed the -Vapid- Herald a letter from a gentle man connected with the New Zealand meat trade. The writer gays: "1 have not yet seen any meat like our own, chilled, frozen, or home-slaughtered. I was told while ashore in llonte Video that there lias been a continuous drought for tltree years in Argentina, slid euttle suffered verv nuicll; hence, l suppose, your advance in pricfe. Libb/o people got a very large order from Germany—some 30,000,0001i> of tinned meat Knd mutton—and it is currently reported that the German reserve in this class of goods is very low. I honestly believe that by this time next year both meat and mutton will command very much higher prices than ever they did. I ara •nformcd bv reliable persons that in Argentina the very, largest sheepowncrs are rearing cattle only now." Speaking at Hastings last week, Mr. W. P. Greville. slated it wa6 a poplar j delusion that cow-keeping could only be carried ou on a largo area of grass, because he assured them that dairymen could double the.product from their la-id by stall-feeding their cattle, and as the , land got dearer this would be the system adopted. Some people spoke of a | cow as s -a go»d cheese cow but no good 1 for butter.'' This was wide of th? truth. Since IV discovery of the Balicock tost il had been found that the cow that was good for was also good for cheestT-making. 'The man wno w;;> rich milk to the factory was improving the cheese output. Some dairymen thought that if their herd averaged ,Cl2 a cow per season Ihey were doing good bii6incss. Some of tho?'> rows gave 181b of fat and others did not give oil). Anyone carrying on an ordinary business on this basis would be bankrupt In six months. Farmers should test their cows, and every cow should pay her way, or, if this could not lie done, the beast should be sent to 1)0 made into beef; but there should he no such thing as a general average.

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