FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 47, 16 July 1914, Page 6

FARM AND DAIRY.

OL'K BITTER .MAKJXU. Recently tlio co-operative ditetri'.iitag companies of Xew y«.utli Wales, \ icoria, and Queensland appointed it delefa to to visit flu- Doniinioii to report mi mi- de.iiv, iug conditions, and Uic luiiowug an extract from his report: ■- Comparing the home separator supply if New Z.a'iiiiid with Australia, Hie later is ven much at a di-advantage. At lie time of our visit in February, tin: ■lover and English glasses are as grcjn is they are in Australia in the middle of x'ovombcr. Then the temperature is not learly so high in Xew Zealand as in \ustralia. 'i'he land is so rich where dairying is arried on that the supply of very large aetories is gathered from coinpai'afiy:y small ureas. (Jo-operative f.uL'.:Vs ire very numerous in the dairying d.srk'ta of both islands. With venditions uch as tiiese. it is nut to lie wondered at .hat very little second grade butter s made in New Zealand, oven from the iwiue separator supply, lint when ;ua ai.e into consideration that ili per nut | if iin; Dominion's export is made i'loin .hole mill; supply, it can readil. ..e | Miderstood why thele is so little m.-Hid-giade liutler exported from ie'.v 'j'alund to London. Apart, 'however, from the natural adantages that the New Zealanders cloy, We believe that an enormous iinouut of good is done by the very lefive work that is carried on by Air. 'uddio. and his stall of competent in- ■ Iriiclors, who are always on the watch ■>r factories that jnaiy send in seven■'.;rade butter. W'hen any such are innnd .11 instructor is despatched piompily to miuirn into the defect and .reetily ii. Another great factor in New Zealand'iiccess it> the high standard of peii..ion to which they have brought the art if pasteurising, uud which is now pnv.isud tiivoiigiioiit the Dominion. Ur troiigly n.-nmim nil tii.it butter ne.ci • ■l the Commonwealth be pasteuris ■•',. nd that conipeteii! men be engaged In each our factory managers how to do 1.

PREVENTION' OF TUBERCIT.OSIK l.\" Jn the course of some interesting nn.l instructive roniaarks uL Hamilton on tin>ubjc<!t of tuberculosis in pigs, Mr C. .1. leakes (chief flovenuncnt Veterinarian) ■mp'iiasised its infectious mil lire.' He minted out that where there were tn'i'•iculoils cows, the disease was ahiv.,s 'oimd in pigs. Ah to the best remedy, lie said that naiiy pigK did not show thai this were ill'ectcd, and people often .said why Hot ;est them. It was a veiv dilTicult mattter 10 test pigs, for they' became agitated ,vhen handled, and their temperature, ivhidi was their chief test, went up. fn ;he United States, an attempt had been made to apply the test by eonliuiug nigs in small crates in which there wis nily room enough for them to lie down mil get up. They were 1;< pt thus for a ,veek or two. being handled daily. The thing that would do mure looi! than mvl.ting .else was pasttiirUiog the skim niik at the factories. It should be heatMi to not less than 17« degree-, and if t went to 180 or IS."> degrees, so urn n the better. That would kill not only .he germ* of tuberculosis, but also other .■usual germs that might be present. There were, germs which gained entraice io the milk'through aecidentul dirt eo ilamination, which, while perhaps net setting up serious di-eas'.s. could yet prevent tlie pigs thriving and doing so we'll as thev should. In fact, pasleuri,ng the skim milk greatly improved its 'ee'ding value both for calves and pigs. SALT I'Oil DAIRY COWS.

It, has been tin' custom iron-: linn im lomorial to give cattle coarse salt. t!i" aim; of which we are all impressed wiUi ,1 this country. In fact, tin- lack oi alt is in many discs tin- cause of dioasos the herds. A very famous American dairyman Ims i,.cji in the habit of {.'ivinj,' course or (V k Hilt to his herd, Imt lias abandoned (.in favor of flic best, linc-l table salt. ,„,| it is interesting to cui-ide,- he-v.i-on- for this cliaii<ic. He lays he lias found the coarse salt unsatisfactory because he could not ,he quantity as he liked to Ho. lie now ■ ivc-> his dairy cows a quarter ol a ninnd mixed with their food every day, in;! linds the result very sylislactory. uppetilc salt is often rceominended in this country, as it is also for certain pruriiiiiiiiils. and occasionall, some larn-e'-s say it has not proved beneficial. The fact is t'hat perhaps they have niven the v.i't ill sucli a maimer that it is not capable of l>riii£ assimilated by cows. '-■ it is a broad term, as we u--e it her-. a.:d :i will be worth while Imnr; the -.r'ie':ne of the American dairyman, and ri-.-.w the cows, if not the linest white, ;ii. Ira-1 a tfooil household sail, in place ~;' iho coiirsr rocky lumps which for ~,:.,:• reason or oilier have come to be toiwidcrcd lbe proper thing for cattle.