FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 207, 21 January 1913, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

j GUERNSEY CATTLE, i PURCHASES FOE NEW ZEALAND. I Ohristchurch, January 10. Mr. George Gould lias purchased in England a number of purebred dairy cattle of the famous Guernsey breed, and in connection therewith he writes to a friend ill Christchureli as follows: —"J have just shipped, after many delays owing to the foot and mouth disease, six young Guernsey cattle per s.s. Kai- : koura. There are four heifers from ! thirteen months to two and a-half years 1 old, all but the youngest in calf to bulls | of the most fashionable pedigrees, and two rising yearling bulls, both from ] cows yielding over 1000 gallons per anJ num of milk, averaging about 5 per cent, jof butter-fat. They are from the herds > of Sir Everard Hambro and Mr. F. Pratt I Carlow, both well-known breeders. I I was fortunate in getting a Golden

Cherry heifer, as this line has probably produced more winners both in the prize ring and butter tests than any other in England. The old cow herself took the first prize again this year. at the London Dairy Show, while another of her progeny is probably the best Guernsey cow in England to-day. Another heifer from Sir E. Hambro is Hayes' Olive 6th, the Olives also being quite in the front rank. One of the young bulls is out of Dewdrop 2nd of the Park, who gave 55.8Q1b of milk at the Guilford Show as well as 1 gaining third prize in the ring amongst about twenty, and the other is by Gold-Seeker, the champion bull of England for two years past, and recently sold to America, it is said, for £2OOO, out of Lady Flora 3rd, a 1000-gallon cow and a good winner in the show ring." DAIRY FACTORY PAYMENTS.

(From Oiw Own Correspondent). The Moa Dairy Company at luglewood will pay out to suppliers for December milk the sum of £5756 as 9d, for 120,1311bs of butter-fat. The company is paying at the rate of liy a dper lb of fat. Last year, at lid, the cheque for the corresponding period \vas£sß42 14s 3d, but since then the company has lost many of its Kaimata suppliers, owing to the formation of the co-opera-tive cheese company there. The Kaimata creamery is still the largest of the Moa Company's creameries. The new cheese company at Kaimata received in December 10.1151bs of fat, for which suppliers were paid £oss'. The Tariki Company paid out £BOO for 417,2541bs of milk, as against £1024 in January last for 577.6921bs of milk.

The Tarata butter factory paid out £GSG for 14.3221bs of fat, as against £471 and 1].2901bs of fat in the corresponding period last year. The Lepperton Company (butter) received 10.3151 bs of fat, for which suppliers drew £025, as against £IOBS and 23,0751bs of fat last year, but these latter figures were for a five weeks' period. The Maketawa Company paid £1482 for 32,3421b5. of fat, as against a five weeks' supply of 30,5601bs of fat, and payments totally £1730, at this time last year. . . Thus the dairy companies with headquarters? in Inglewood distributed during •January approximately £10,580 for December milk supplies, as against £10,152 last vear.

GOOD HERDS. A correspondent writes:—ln your Thursday's issue you published a record, and a really good one, of an Omata herd. One that will run it very close may be found on the Waitara road, where in November a herd of 11 cows produced 10.49G1bs of milk, with ft test of 5.1 for one week, and a 5.0 test for the other three weeks, producing 532.67 lbs of butter-fat, for which the owner received £25 10s sd, or at the rate of £2 (is 3d per cow. The same herd in December gave 07G71bs of milk, at a 5.1, 5.3. 5.2 and 5.1 test each week respectively. producing 505.341b- of butterfat, for which the payment of £'2l 4s 2d wag made, or at an average of £2 4s per cow per four weeks. The rate paid for butter-fat was liy.lbs. and each period four weeks, i.e., 28 days. Wa's the Omata record for 28 or 31 days? Had the above-mentioned supplier received the same payment per lb of butter-fat his cheques would have been £3l Is 5d for November and £2O 0s -5d for December, or at the rate of £2 l(is fid and £2 13s 7d, as against the Omata herd's £2 7s lOd. All the cows are Jerseys.

HERD TESTING. STRATFORD AND MIDITIRST RESULTS. A summary of the results of the Stratford Association for the thirty-day period ending December 10 (says the Post) shows that the highest quantity of milk given by one cow was ISSOlbs, which, at a test of 2.4, produced 43.921bs of butter-fat. while the lowest quantity of milk of any cow was 2851b5, which, at a test of 3.0, produced 10.2(ilbs of butterfat. As regards butter-fat, the best cow produced G4.2lbs, and the worst 10.261b5. The average for the highest herd was 30.041b5, and for the lowest 2fi.GGlbs. but for the average Association cow the figures were 33.521b5. The

difference between the ten highest and the ten lowest cows' production is surprising, the figures being 53.G8 and 17.06. At Midhirst the highest quantity of milk given by one cow for the thirtyday period, ending December 14, was 17101bs, which, at a test of 4.6, produced 78,661bs of butter-fat. The lowest quantity given by one cow was 2701b5, which, at a test of 4.4, produced 11.88 lbs of butter-fat. The cow which gave the highest quantity of milk also gave the biggest yield of butter-fat, but the Association has a poorer cow than the one previously mentioned as giving the lowest quantity of milk, her return being ll.olbs butter-fat. The highest herd average was 44.71 and the lowest 22.32; the average Association cow producing 331bs. The ten highest and the ten lowest cows gave respectively 63.12 and 14.331b5, WORLD'S MILK CHAMPION. CREAMELLE YALE—A HOLSTEIN. Creamelle Yale, developed by the F. F. Field Holstein Co., Massachusetts, is , (says the Breeders' Gazette) the world's j milk champion of all breeds, having overshadowed all previous yearly records by her remarkable production of 29,653.41bs of milk. This record is further strengthened by one of the largest butter productions of the breed. Creamelle Yale completed her record with an ease which has only served to I develop lier so that greater work may be expected, from her in the future. That Creamelle Vale inherits her production capacity is shown in the work of her dam, De Kol Creamelle, whose 20,123 pounds of milk marked a world's record when made. The new world's champion now leads it with a margin of over 3500 pounds. As "like produces like," a feature of additional interest is the work of Dutchland 'Colantha Vale, a daughter of Creamelle Vale and Colantha Johanna Lad . She already stands first among junior two-year-olds by her record of 8!).61bs of milk in one day, 603.41bs in 7 days, and 243Slbs in 30 days, and is now 'in semi-official yearly work, halving produced in the first six months and two days 12,6301bs of milk.