FARM AND DAIRY.
KECOKD MILK YIELDS iSO.MI'J AMERICAN" FIGI'RES. The world's record for one year's butter-fat production is stateil by a writer in the American Breeders' Gazette ol December 11 to be liehl by the llolstein cow BanosUue Belle dc Kol. In her live-ycar-old foiin this row proI duced in 305 days 27,404.41bs of milk, [ testing 3.80 per cent., or 1058,341bs of buttei'-fiit, Another llolstein cow, [ Creamlea Yale, holds the world's record for one year's milk production, her record being 29,591. illis of milk, while her butter-fat for the year is 927.1ib5. For five years, from 190S to 1913, .lacolia Irene, with a yearly record of ( Js4lbs of butler-fat, held' the world's record for the Jersey breed. She lias recently been replaced by the Jersey cow Eniinent's Bess, with a record of 15,782,91bs of milk .testing .">.12 per cent., or JlliiSlbs of butter-fat. This gives her premier place in the breed both for milk and butler-fat production. The world's record for Guernseys is held by Spotswood Daisy Pearl, with 18:li02.81bs of milk, testing' 5.15 per cent... or 957.351bs of butter-fa!# Dully Dimple holds the yearly record for mill; production for tliis breed Willi 18,805.5 lbs of milk, testing -l.liti per cent., or 871i.341bs of iiutter-lat. Phenomenal progress in the line of yearly records is also being made by the Ayrshire breed. Auchenhraiii Brown Kate lias just attained premier place in the breed by completing a record of 23,0231bs of miik and DlT.lilbs of butterfat. The brown Swiss cow College Bravura • 2nd recently completed I lie highest yearly record for the breed, reaching a total of H),304.(i1bs of milk, averaging 4.1 per cent, -of butter-fat, which makes , 7!'1.851bs of butter-fat. PIONEER OF' BRITISH DAIRYING. A commanding personality in the British dairying industry has passed awav ill .Sir George Barham, ivlio died a few weeks ago at the age of seventy■icvcn. In ISO.; Sir George. Barham saved the metropolis from a milk famine. * At that time the cattle plague threatened to paralyse the milk trade, especially in London, and Mr, Baldwin, ■as he then was. travelled all over England, and succeeded in bringing by rail into London large supplies of flesh country milk, cooled by capillary refrigerators. from districts previously consitleher too distant for the metropolitan marked. Special rates were granted to him by Sir James Allport. of the Midland railway, on trial for a year, from the great Derbyshire district, and those rates have never been altered; and Derbyshire has continued to be one of tlie best sources of the London milk supply. Sir George haul ill the previous year ; founded whal is known as the Express Dairy Company, and for the purpose had visited Germany. France. Ilaly, Denmark, Sweden, .Norway, Switzerland and Holland, and from the experience gained placed the home daily industry in a po- j sition to hold its own with foreign competition. It was a time when milk was being watched as a possible carrier of ; disease, and Sir George liarliani, at his own cost, sent out a commission to India lo establish hygienic dairying in j Hindustan. The indian Government j has since set op large dailies, which - have done much to save British troops in the East from typhoid and other J diseases. Sir George in biter yenrs 1 was the spokesman of the dairy interest before Parliamentary ami Board of Trade Committees in the niatlcr of railway rates, and in 1 HI. 1 representative farmers and dairymen made him a presentation of plate in recognition of his Services. QUALITY OF LAND AND BUTTER AND CHEESE-MAKING. "The fact of the matter is.'* a South Taranaki dairyman sai.: to a Daily News representative some time ago, ''our land is too rich for chccsc inak- < ing. We will have to go back to but-ter-making or casein. The best cheese will always come from land of secondclass quality—never from (irst-class; whilst the opposite obtains in regard to butter-making." Remarks the Eltliain Argus: It may surprise some of our rentiers to learn that, according fo experts, there is much truth in the latter portion of this gentleman's remarks. Several standard works on cheese-mak-ing published during recent years quote figures proving that a larger amount ot cheese is secured from milk of only nietloin test than that of high test. Some idea of the difference may be obtained from the following ligures which we quote from a well-known standard work: From a quantity of milk testing 3.13 the cheese secured was 2.9411i5; from the same quantity testing -i.45 the amount of cheese was 2.4 libs, or nearly '/.l'd less.
VALUE or SHELTER. 1 ■ / A New South Wales pusioralist has found by experiment that in a sheltered paddock the increase of live weight was 31b per head per week, while in an exposed paddock the increase was only lib, although the available feed was heller than in (he former case. He says: "It pays lo rug milking rows, and it should prove remunerative if breeders provided some protection for sheep oil' the shears. Clumps of trees as wind breaks tlo not eo s t rt great deal, and are a great help.'' There arc ab-nit 2."t(!0 liales of wool in the Wailara Harbor sited, of which il'i!:) bah'.s will go fonvard by the Whakalane. 'file steamer arrives in the roadstead on Friday from Napier. .Monday nigh!.- .Mail. Jersey bulls are known lo he somewhat treacherous (writes the I'ukekohe correspondent of the Auckland Star.! During the past few weeks there have been quile a number of "rusliings"' recorded. A re-peeled Mauka settler was ignominiously driven in a swamp, to (he destruction of a nee, 1 -iii( of elotbes. •lie bad to wait an interminable time liefore the bull raised Hie siege and retired lo his pastures. Co'd and cramped the settler then escaped. The plight, of Mr. Sydney Boyd, settler of Pukckohe Hill, was more serious. Whilst bending down cleaning' the slockyard his bull rushed liiin, tearing his groin ami inllicting a bad gash ou the hack of the leg, just behind the knee. After gelling Mr. lioyd down the bull continued its tierce goring, but fortunately the animal had out; broken horn, and the other horn, being longer, kept the weight of the head, oil' Air. Boyd's bode whenever the long horn struck the ground. This settlor's life was only saved bv the prompt assistance rendered, the animal being driven ofV. Air. Boyd has since been contilled to his bed. but is Jetting all right tgain now.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 175, 23 January 1914, Page 7
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