FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 June 1919, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

A JERSEY ENTHUSIAST. ' i (From Our. Own Correspondent.) > . It is just about a year ago that Mr.'; W. H. Tippins bought the farm at Nor-', folk Scad that he has lately sold to! Mr. W. A. Officer. -Mr. Tippins came to;! Norfolk Road as an enthusiastic sup-j porter of the Jersey cattle, and though; the land there, has by nomqans a reputa-i tion for being the pick of the Moa block! for quality* hie , sUficesa there with his!| dairy herd goes to ppgve that with com-| nion sense management and strict attcn-j tion to the quality of the herd, the, land! can and will resjijlts that compare unite favarabJy,M[ith those of some oil the land in! the move adyerti?e(| parts of Taranaki.i With a milkjpg; |>em. of 24 head, of - which ten w'sre first calvert,j on 55 acres, of Mr. Tippins states! that he can show that the returns for! butter-fat alone for the' season just] i-loscd total £ll da per acre. The coWS averaged 343 lb of butter-fat per head. The milk was supplied to the Rugbj Road cheese factory, with the satisfactory result stated.

When he sold his farm to Mr. Officer,; Mr. Tippins at the same time sold that, rrentleman his dairy herd,' but When he' had secured the farm at Oorbett Road-' to which he has now removed, he was lo loth to part altogether with the jir.inniitf strain of milkers that he had with very careful selection acquired that lio bous'ht five of the pick of them back f"nm Mr. Officer at one hundred guineas 8 head, a fact that speaks volumes for h'-i oninion nf the importance of bavin? the best :fduhdritlon obtainable for establishing .'4ji<iilier' hfid of nilkeri, a*

he purpoßes' dßifi& a t his 'Cprbett' Roitd fariu, in pursujftuse'of wM#i purpose hi Mis ffipMr. "Mir.oSiW&ibwe y JMßd£* ? - wJioia record in thtj "prizip ring 'for '• ths 'nasi Season I>la<:eSJhM l 5 ia the list' bi ;l%sey sires, j . fcWBAW. ;ul #he fine, mliyrtf re-boufeh't from Mr. Officer are under s'emi-offi&al test, and will aver age-4701b buttwrfat, Two o{ these are. two-year-olds, one each three .four ftj>d ;jone» jnatttted cow. sitfiiyiU thus be see®; tha% Mr. Tipp,ins iltarts again 4p bnild: on an excepfcipnaijy good foundation, and, appropriately eaiough, on the .farm wliejiee , the late Mr. \V. K. ilulkc, the premier exponent cf ithe Jersey's excalleuce, «old the apejpiflW and ancestresses of .'the Very best cattle of that breed ta be found here now. If success crowns his efforts it will be no more than Mr. Tippins deserves, for his heart _is in the game and he spares no pains to get the best results.