STOCK FOR AUCKLAND.
VALUABLE DAIRY COWS. TARANAKI CONSIGNMENT. As an indication of the growth of dairying in North Auckland it may be mentioned that last Tuesday a special •train left New Plymouth for Northern Wairoa, Auckland, carrying over 500 yearling grade Jerseys, and a truck of yearling pedigree bulls, the bulk of them being for Messis. Finlayson, Dargaville’. The value of the consignment was estimated at over £5OOO. Taranaki farmers are making a speciality of the breeding of dairy stock, and some valuable butter-fat' producing strains of Jerseys are now well established. It is not uncommon in that province for dairy farmers to pay from £lOO to £l5O for high-class cows and heifers, and such animals, even on their commercial output, are said to give much greater profits on their capital cost than the ordinary-priced cows. With dairy stock at over £lOO each, and dairying land at over £lOO an acre, it seems a problem how dairying is made to pay, and yet it is claimed that under such conditions dairying pays better than where cheap but inferior stock are kept on cheap but inferior land.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1921, Page 8
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186STOCK FOR AUCKLAND. Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1921, Page 8
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