THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.
The outlook for the dairy industry in the Wairarapa is most encouraging. During the last two seasons butterfat has ranged at fully Is per pound. At this price, a selected cow should yield between £l2 and £ls worth of butter-fat in a season. Allowing one cow to two acres, the owner of a 100acre section could run fifty cows, which wonld produce £6OO in the season, or £6 per acre. This la an enormous yield for a email farm; but it is what might be taken off almost every acre of land in the Wairarapa. iWhy i« it that there ar© so many
large estates, whon such magnificent returns are available to the tfairy farmer? This is a question that Parliament must bo loft to answer. So far as tho Master ton ,i district is concerned, there are indications that the dairy industry is going to assume much larger proportions than in the past. It is essential, however, that our great estates shall be broken up.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 August 1913, Page 4
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169THE DAIRY INDUSTRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 August 1913, Page 4
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