FARMING TOPICS
Dairying Efficiency
I asked a dairy-farmer the other day if he was pushing out his pigs as porkers now. He replied that he had too much milk and not enough pigs to do so, and was carrying the lot on to baconers. This is a contrast to the usual practice of most farmers in autumn.
The January returns of two sharemilkers’ herds I saw recently are illuminating. Both are on the same class of farms (I know the properties), with the same class and size of herds. One was 20 per cent, below the other’s January returns. The property-owner told me that in November their returns were even; one has since slipped consistently and the other has held wonderfully well to his peak. How much depends on the human factor? One of the soundest proverbs I have ever heard is this: “Mankind needs more often to be reminded than informed.” This appeared in the heading of “Pig Progress,” the bulletin of the New Zealand Co-operative .Marketing Association. It reminds one of Napoleon’s dictum—that repetition is no fault — a good idea could not be too often expressed.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 131, 27 February 1937, Page 15
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