FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1918, Page 8

FARM AND DAIRY.

p:\V-S AND NOTES. The record sale average, and tie record price for a Jersey cow, fell before enthusiastic bids at the auction of Island Jerseys, held by Mr Edmund Butler at Mt. Kisco, New York, in May. Oxford's Briar Flower, a daughter of OxMajesty, rare in type and astonish-»-3 in udder, distinguished on the Island in show ring and butter test, commanded a bid of £2OOO from Mr William Ross Proctor, Barryville, New York. This top price, and the high level of bids, with an average of £2OO, created scenes of enthusiasm never before witnessed at an auction offering of the breed. Lady Viola, purchased by the late Mr J. B. Ila.cgin, at £I4OO in 1911, has held the sale record for a cow of the breed, and the 1883 sale of Mr Cooper's Linden Grove eattle held the sale average—£l9o 10s. Both figures were now surpassed. An American business man, writing to a friend in Wellington, under date June 21, states that the spring weather has been quite favorable for crops, .-.ml indications were that there would bo an immense acreage and yield of wheat and oats. Hay crops also were good. Prime beef and cattle on the Chicago market in the middle of June brought 9d per lb live weight, the highest price beef had ever made. Pigs were selling at about 17 Bents live weight. Cream, based on butter-fat contents, brought 44 cents per A suggestion has been made in England that the lambing should be postponed in order to savo fo(l(v_T, correspondent of the Live Stock Journal admits that postponing the lambing for a month or sis weeks would Save hay and other fodder, but it would so disorganise the usual course of farm management that the remedy would be worse than the disease. The quick clearance of root ground enables that ground to be prepared for producing a full and abundant crop of cereals. Tho postponing of the lambing period would result in the cereals being planted at a much later date. The probable consequence would be a much smaller yield of cereals. That would affect the needs of the population more than the additional quantity of fodder consumed in the usual course of procedure.

Cheddar cheese is more nourishing, pound for pound, than any meat, says The Dairy, and therefore should have a prominent place in the diet as a meat substitute. Few people eat cheese in sufficient quantities for it really to form an important part of the daily fare. Indeed, it is used more often simply as an appetiser ,or as a seasoning for some other food. Nearly relishes good Cheddar cheese, but there is an impression that it is indigestible and constipating. Extensive digestion experiments carried on have demonstrated that more than 95 per cent of the protein of cheese is digested and 00 per cent of its energy is available.# Even when eaten in large quantities and for long periods, no case of indigestion', constipation, or other disturbance was observed in those who ate it. One man who ate cheese as the chief source of both'protein and energy, eating an average of 9.27 ounces daiiy with bread and fruit for more than two years, did a fair. amount of muscular work and kept in good health. Cheddar cheese is a very satisfactory substitute for meat. It can be kept in storage for a long tlnje, and contains much food in small volume. A pound of cheese supplies more than twice as much energy as |a pound of fowl or beef-steak, and almost twice as much protein as the same amount of fowl or ham. Cheese, therefore, taking all things into consideration, is a cheaper food than any of the meats.