FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 203, 16 January 1913, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

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5 I Despite the .-pi'll of dr. weather U ; I has not had ihe effect of decreasing the ' supply of milk at (Ik? Waitara road faes torv, hilt rather the other way, over a million pounds of milk having been received, in December, constituting a record. .Suppliers will be paid £2148 Is Id for milk supplied during December, an increase, as against the corresponding month of 1011, of £517 Os 9d. The increase of luittrr produced shows about. ■ 4 : y t tons for the same period, whilst for the luilt-year ended December '27 the increase is close on 17 tons. The directors decided at their Wednesday's meeting to instal a pasteuriser, anil also to go into the matter of increasing the power next, year, and this will probably mean a new boiler, engine and freezer of double the present capacity to cope with the ever-increasing supply of milk.—Waitara correspondent. THE WOOL CROP. Wool still continues to come to hand for shipment, and owing to the delay of the Home noat the Harbor Board stall' are hard pressed to find storage room for the large quantity accumulated. The wisdom of the Board in enlarging the storage capacity at the wool shed reflects credit on their forethought. Had this not been done the troubles of the' previous year would again have been evident. Xow there is no space to spare, due mainly io the shipping company's delay in despatching the boat.— 1 Waitara correspondent. [ A GOOD HERD. A correspondent supplies us with the following result of an Omata dairyman's herd of cows, at present supplying the "Royal Oak - ' cheese factory at Omata. Ihe number milked is 38 cows, the breeu being Jersey. Ayrshire and Holstein, and being grazed only on fcrass, part of which lias been newly sown down and part old pasture, but basic slag has been used and good feed provided throughout the winter, enabling the cows to come into profit in good condition, as can be ■ seen from the figures below for ; the ' month of December. 1912: Pounds of milk. 37.081: test. 4.1; butter-fat at 14d, €!I0 His fid. or £2 7s 10(1 per cow for the month. Surely this is a. record for .v mata, foi milk alone. The whev is 'fed to 20 calves and 10 pigs, all being m the pink of condition.