THE JERSEY COW.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1918, Page 7

THE JERSEY COW.

To the Editor. Sir. —'Under the heading of "Dried Milk," there appears in your issue of the HMh inst an effusion over the signature cf one W. JR. Wright, who. after making a few most rambling statements, and quoting some most remarkable "official" figures, proceeds to prophesy that margarine will drop to ild per lb and so butter will have a bad run as 'people will never eat it at, say. "■:■ per 1!>." How Mr Wright arrives at the conclusion that butter will be an unsaleable article, and Vet hopes to make big price* for dried milk I don't know, for, utiles* I am misinformed, dried milk is a relation to butter much as sugar of milk is to cheese, so that butter-fat wnuhl =tilT remain the chief consideration <wen at a dried milk factory. Mr Wright's further statement: '•Therefore rich milk for dairying is not going to pay. ami it. looks from the wav the new industry is catching on, that .Ter=oy breeders are going to have a holiday." is even more interesting and arousing. -\"ow\ Sir, 1 have been wondering what manner of man this man is. and T cannot help but r.hink that with Mr Wright the wish has been father to the thought. and T have a very shrewd suspicion that Mr Wright, owns some of the low-testing cattle whose owners from time to time become alarmed wdien they discover that the little Jersey cow is beating them badly, and so in self defence they raise the cry: "Rich mill; for dniTving is not going to par." fondly hoping that some may be thoughtless enough to believe them. T would remind Mr Wright that this cry has been heard before in connection with the cheese industry here in Taran.aki. Yearj back, about IP<W. the low-testing suppliers of the Tariki Dairy Company raised the slogan 'Tiich milk is no good for cheese. W" are being nd.bod bv the rich, high-testing Jersey herds. Ciscin is what we want. Solids not fats!" So insistent was the r-rv and so acute did the position become that the directors of th» company npnrnnehed the Dor-arlroont of Agriculture Commerce, and Dairy Industries, and Mr Cuddle sent Mr W. IT. Singleton along-to attempt to nut matters before the Mipplicrs in their true light. He pointed on! thai the fairest method for payment for cheese was on a Mlcr-Cit plus cash, basis, hut. that nwing to tbn iineertaintv of the casein test, eomhuie.l wilh the extra time and cost to make it. it wns hardly worth while considering ii. However, our low-te-i----in" brethren were tired of being "robbed." and so determined to have casein te=t. The Dairy Department gave every as-vis-tance, and at the end of the voir if, was found that the Jersey was still on fop! Tariki was the first factory in Xew Zealand—T believe in the world—to instal the casein test for cheese, and the experiment has rroved to be a veritable triumph for the little Jersey cow. for after a few venrs' experience Tariki has returned (o payment on a butter-fat basis) Taraniiki is, I believe considered to be tile home of dairying. It is also the home of the Jersey. Whv? Because Taranaki farmers know tha< butter-fat is what Ihev are paid for and the most economical producer of butter-fat is the little Jersey cow. N r ot only does the Jersey beat all-comers as an economical producer of butter-fat. but also as an economical producer of casein and milk. This has been amply proved in public and private tests, and this being sn the .Terser Ims nothing to fear from the dried mil!,- industry, for the sensible, business-like farmer is after the economical prod'tccy fhe Jersey has come to stay. r"'. if T mi "lit be avowed to tender Mr Wright a little ndviee, I would sav: "Don't nrnphpsv before yon are sure!"—! am. ch\. FR.rn." nAVFonn rre.-h'ent- Strafford Bra.neh X./. Jersey C-'tlle Breeders' Association. Stratford. July 2uth, 101 R.