CORRESPONDENCE. MILK RETURNS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 307, 10 January 1912, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

MILK RETURNS.

ro THE J2DITOU. Sir, —Will you kindly allow ine a fev words in rep ; iy to Mr Y'eale. -Ui Veaie: I read your contribution in yesterday's Advocate with mingled feelings, in wiiicn sorrow predinionated, sorrow for your sake, tliat you should be so lost to all sense of decency as to use such unseemly language is putting it very mildly indeed. You began with tiie club, and you have ended with it. You complain of my letters being personal, .tiow cou/ld they be otherwise? You brought forward your own herd against the herd you condemned, and my chief argument was that you are not a bona-fido dairyman, as you had another source of income. You had informed a'll and sundry first that you have "hard cash" invested at o per cent, in the H.B. Dairy Company, second that you do not carry on. dairying for the benefit of your health, and third you aye ready to prove that von a.re managing the Daily Company lur the good of your .health; in other words, next door to nothing. Two of these statements are irreconciilile Business philanthropy is dead, and m;y experience of this world is that' the man who is in business soler ly for the good of the "other feliow" wants watching. Noav, Mr "VeaJe, one 'word mare, and lam finished. You take yourself far too serious'ly. You want to .get oti your pedestal occasionally, and have a walk round. You will: perhaps then be better able to see more clearly iand talk more'.charitably than you have done in this correspondence. Mr Editor, for the sake of those of your readers who have taken an interest in these letters, 1 wish' to say that the farmers of the : block found the past winter very severe on stock; quite a number died, and the majority of the surviving cows were in .such poor condition, that ha,lf the season is gone before they get back to good condition. That is partly the reasoni why the average return is low. • Now the I essoin to be learned from this is that winter feed must bo provided, and the cows will then do well in winter. Luckily there is abundance of feed everywhere at present, and th > settler? have started harvinaking, s.j that,:prospects for wintering stock this year are good. Finally, Mr Editor, I have to thank vou for your courtesy and absolute fair play in your continents on this corerspomkMii'e, and if it be the means of awakening up one/dairyman to the nece'ssity of weighing and testing the milk of each cow, and thereby knowing which is worth keeping and which is not, it will have answered a goo<r purpose.—l am, etc., B, BLACK. January "9. 1912.