FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1916, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

GREAT RECORD& Mr. Newton King has received a letter from Mr. Geo. Aitchison, of Kaitangata, {riving further records of another cow ar.d a heifer got by a son of Nazli de Kol, the Mill bred bv Mr. King and sold to Mr. Aitchison. , It will be remembered that Nassli de Kol was by the. champion bull Sir de Kol Inka Pieterje, practically the fiti her of the Willowvale herd. Mr. Aitcliison says:—"l am sending you a little more in connection with Xnzli de Kol which may interest you. Corona and Metu are both granddaughters of his, Doth being by a son of bis, out of two of his daughters. Inbred some would say, and, I would say, to some purpose. Corona senior, two years old, gave 17,007 lbs milk, (i20.501bs fat. Since Netherhind Princess 4th has died this is the highest two-year-old in New Zealand. Meta, four years 24 day®, has given 18,iSalbs milk, (ITiilbs butter-fat in 346 days and calved again on the 3(>oth day. This is the hv»ost four-year-old in New Zealand; average for the two .358 days m i(k lS,l2lilbs fat fi")o.7slbs. This should satisfy almost any dairyman. Both are very fine cows and are looking well at present.*:

NOTES. The Eltham Dairy Company paid out to its suppliers for August Is (3d per lb lor butter-fat. Tin- Wavorley branch of the Farmers' Union bases its protest against the recommendation of the Hoard of Agriculture to sell the greater portion of the Moumahaki State Farm 011 the following reasons: (1) That tha present area, acres, is, if anything, too small to properly carry out all the requirements necessary in the interests of the large agricultural, pastoral and dairying district served by it; (2) that as dairying and stock raising are the principal industries in Turanaki and Wanganui districts, a farm of 200 acres would be practically • fifolpM, as fhe raising of slnd stork of Lite heft strains for producing wool, mutu:n, heel', and butter-fat is as vital to i iiese industries as the breeding of, foddei plmit-,. and niembi-rs consider that on both these lines should be carried 011 simultaneously; (3) that 'l3 training cadets in general farm work in all branches has become one of the most useful features of the Moumahaki Farm, ii its area were cut down to 2(10 acres

and its work confined to specialising in a few line.*, the mutter of training cadets thoroughly in general fanning would become practically useless, besides losing all work done by cutlets as payment foi their tuition; (4) that, as at present (onstitntcd, the farm has an all-round and growing sphere of usefulness, and is practically self-supporting, but if cut down to 200 acres half its usefulness would be gone, the stall', supply of machinery, implements and :ost of running would be just as great with )(Jss than half the returns, thereby making the Moumahaki State Farm ■> crippled and discredited concern and a coiist!Ui,t drag upon the public revenue.