PROFITABLE SEASON FOR DAIRYING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 9

PROFITABLE SEASON FOR DAIRYING.

FEILDING'S EXPLRDZNCE. [by telegraph— special to thb post.] FEILDING, This Day. That the season has been a profitable one for dairying is evidenced by the fact that the yields for March this year ha\e far exceeded those for the corresponding period of last year. Mr. W. Streetson, of JKLiwitea, who is milking 50 cows, is getting 3001b of milk per day more than he- did during March of last yeav. Mr. Streetson is running eighty or ninety head of stock on 160 acres, and he has had no diminution in his milk test for March, which has kept at 3.9. The supply at the Cheltenham Dairy Factory also has shown no decrease so far this season, a very different state of affairs from laet year. Milking machines, like most innovations which revolutionise the ordinary way of things, have been condemned for various reasons by those who do not use them. It has been stated, for instance, that they spoil the cows and make them useless as milkers. That such is not the case is proved by the experience of a dairy farmer near Cheltenham. He has been using the machines for four years and sees no evU effects so far. It is invariably the case that the man who once uses the machine? does not go back to the old hand method. "What are you going to feed your cows on during the winter?" a big dairy farmer from Cheltenham was asked today. "I am going to try the residue of the threshed peas," he said, "in addition to hay and mangles. I believe the pea plants u« very good eating for cows. The only thing against them is the cost of cultivation. 'Ihey are too expensive to cut. Beans are cheaper because they can be cut with a machine and dropped in the sheaf. I shall try beans next season." A new variety of potato known as tho "Gem of Kimoolton" has been introduced by Mr. T. Rolle*, of Kimbolton. The tuber, which grows very large, makes a very fine cooker. That it is a prolific

i grower is shown by the experience of Mr. Rolles. In a patch 14 feet by 23 feet he grew 4101b, which works out at' something like 25 tons to the acre. The ground was manured with phosphate after the plants had appeared above the ground. £PRESS A3SOCUTION.I A WOMAN'S DEATH. DUNEDIN, Ist April. The inquest on the body of Janet M'Coll. who died at the residence of Mrs. Duiston, at Mornington, on 25th March, after having given birth to twins on 16th March, was continued to-day before Mr. Widdowson. Mrs. Durston said fhe was a ladies' nurse, unregistered. Deceased called at her place on lotJi March, and engaged a room for a week or so. After going to bed that night deceased was very sick, but said &he had "been sick for six weeks, and advised witness to take no notice of it. Deceased got worse as the night advanced, and eventually admitted her condition. Dr. Fitchett stated that death was due to general septic peritonitis, due to puerperal infection, otherwtse bloodpoisoning. There was an injury which lie was at a loss to explain. The suggestion was Uhat an instrument or something else had been used. It was unlikely to have occurred in any other way, though he would not caro to deny that it could happen naturally. He could not swear positively an inkiumcnt had been used. Tho inquest was further adjourned till Wednesday.