WINTER DAIRYING.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 30 August 1905, Page 2

WINTER DAIRYING.

The following article on winte dairying, published by the Pastoral ists' Review, Melbourne, will be o interest to dairy farmers in tbi: colony. Our contemporary says ii will probably be useless appealing any where el?e than to New Zealani for a record to beat this concernin« the capacity of land to support dair cows : —A 12 acre paddock, croppei with maize, irrigated ; 5 acres cu with cobs soft, chopped and filled i 300 ton circular overground silo ; 1 acres allowed to ripen cobs, whicl yielded about GOO bushels of corn the milking herd, averaging 10< cows, turned on to the 7 acres o stripped stalks as grazing for thre months in winter, consumioj throughout tbat time the 800 ton of maize silage which was fed ti them night and morning, and keep ing in condition and milking well Fancy 100 cows on 12 acres for threi months — (more than two cows ti the acre for the year round) an< maize, corn, and meal enough to las all the stock on the farm the yea forbye. And this in drought-strickei Australia, too, on oue of the Soutl Gippsland flats of reclaimed moras land, a tramp over which inducos i reminircent fit, and makes one thinl of the days spent on tho Taieri They are not yet so beautiful to 100l upon, these fkt's, as in Taieri seen from Wingatui or Silverstrean as the sun breaks through and lift the fluffy coverlet of mist from he face. But they will be ; it is merel a matter of time. Taieri and Tara naki, with your 80 tons of mangold and such like, beware !