FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1916, Page 6

FARM AND DAIRY.

MANGOREI COW-TESTING ASSOCIATION*. Tim following are the returns from the Man.uorei Cow-testing Association for the period ending August ID:—

Tlio TJosl fiord gave To!) 11)3 milk', 4.5 tost, 34.5011)3 fat. Tlie worst herd gave sG4lbs milk, 4.1 test, 23.531b3 fat. The best :ow»gave OOOlbs milk, 5.4 test, ■IS.OOIbs fat. The worst cow gave !)01bs milk, CO test, 5.401bs fat. Tlie average association cow gave 603 lbs milk, 4.3 test, 29.4'01bs fat. ' TURXIP FLAVORS Mr. Stevenson liail something to say in regard to turnip flavors when speaking to the Kaponga dairy farmers recently (says the Star). The feeding of turnips was a debatable point, he said, but it wis no use any man saying don't feed turnips unless he was prepared to give, dairy farmers some substitute. It was the indiscriminate feeding—allowing the cows to remain on tlie turnips all day—that affected tlie milk, and pasteurising would not remedy this. They had experimented with turnip-flavored milk and pasteurised it to a temperature of ISO dogbees, but tlie flavor wais still pronounced. A great deal of the trouble could be got over if farmers discriminated a little and put their cows on the turnips a couple of hours after each milking; it was allowing t'he cows to remain on them all day that caused the trouble. It was true that many feeds could be substituted, but in the majority of eases either tlie growing or feeding of tliem involved a vast amount of labor, and in these times of scarcity of farm labor these were not practicable. Apparently soft turnips would have to be grown in Taranaki, and he believed that the majority of factory managers would raise no objection to dairy farmers feeding them to their dairy cows, provided they did so with discrimination. .In reply to questions, Mr. Stevenson said that he did not think that the purple-top or any variety of turnip was entirely without flavor. Feed flavors did not develop to any great extent; they would possibly be" as strong after three months as ever they would be. If pasteurising at a temperature of ISO degrees would not kill the flavor nothing would. Turnips carted out into the paddocks would not taint the milk to nearly the same extent as feeding off, but there again was the problem of labor. Ensilage left no flavor in the sully

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