PROFITABLE DAIRY FARMING IN ENGLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2218, 12 February 1886, Page 2

PROFITABLE DAIRY FARMING IN ENGLAND.

The process at Doarnford Hallmo'-'-' remove about one-third of the c™m ' from the previous night's milking, be- ;- causoiftheivholo were left the cheese. ' could not be of such uniform quality, and • would be much more difficult tomariipiP ate, while the cream that is removed '" v brings in a handsome item in butter The- l! accounts are kept with great care, and appended is the dairy account for 1833' ■- Cheeae from 47 cows, £766 2s; butter, ' £l6BGs4d; whey valued at 50s a cow " £ll7 10a; calves sold, £110; calved reared, 45 calves at &% £3O; total, £ll9l . 17s sd. These results seem so astonish- ' ins; that Mr Nunnerly, at the request of the judges, weighed the milk yielded on J> a given day-June 12, 1884-and the* cheese produced on June 26, fourteen days after; this was tested, and found to correspond most accurately with the"' ' returns.rendered, and, well indeed the \, judges may have said that such results were "almost unique in the history of cheese makers." There is also an . account kept for pigs on the same farm, which was duly debited with the whey at £ll7 10s and the corn and meal consumed, yet they show a profit of £6O 8s 6d. And all this says nothing of the arable land, upon which tho results were very remarkable. Ten tons of potatoes are grown per acre, and as much as fcjjgr four bushels of wheat at'sixty poundsffir bushel on the same quantity of land/It will thus be seen'that the gross product of this farm of 187 acres is considerably more than £2OOO per annum. Indeed, it is estimated at £l2 to £le per acre.— The English Illustrated Magazine for Novomber.