NOTES AND COMMENTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 3 September 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Speaking at the annual meeting of the KaupoKonui Factory, tne chairman, when reterring to the iinancmg of suppliers, said he considered the "high price was due largely to the opportunity given to men to' buy land, and that the high prices wore satisfactory so long as the buyer was certain he was getting the besSt land at the price paid. Years ago a very *,mall return was secured by. the farmer for ln, s butter. Then came the demand for cheese and later casein was mads from the skim milk, and many other by^roducte from casein. The risks of land falling were uot nearly so great now that so many products were made frcm the milk. .-"■ \

Speaking ori the subject of ir.ilk received at the factory, the general manager at Kaupokonui said at the annual meeting that at times suppliers brought milk that was too new, i.e., tco sooh after calving. As a reliable test he said that if milk does not • curdle when brought slowly to the boiling point, then it is fit to send to the factory.

At a great, dispersal sale of Fiieslaud cattle, held at Pine Grove Farms, Elma, New- York, record prices were paid. A nine-year-old bull, Bag Apple Korndyke Bth. was sold to Mr A -W. Green of Ohio, for i>l2,of)o. His son, Rag Apple the Great, dam Segis Fayne J-)----hanna, was purchased by Mr H. A. Pointer, Dearborn, Michigan, for £25,----(100. His five nearest dams each made records under test. A six-year-okl cow. Segis Hengerveld Fayne Johanna; brought £8000. She is a daughier' ot Segis Fayne Johanna. One of her daughters brought £4500, and another £4000. An eigbt-year-ftkl cow sold for £7000. The average for 226 head was £667 Bs.

Any purebred cow. with a good but-ter-fat test'sells readily at a high price m the United States. , A ten-year-old Guernsey cow, with a record- of 6011b fat, sold for £202 in Wisconsin on June 6. A. seven-year-old cow, with 5201b fat to her credit, was secured for £170 Sixty-ono, head averaged; £82 12s and 16 of theiu made £100 each o?: over.

Sheep as a side line ior dairy farmers pay handsome profits when the dairy farmer doe's .not .attempt-, to kcej> more shfiep than-he can handle to advantage, and supply with tlje proper- kinds of feed A few sheep will keep down weeds in the pasture, consume waste fe"ds and give the farm a tidy, well-gi-oomed appearanoe, while a larger flock will prove a disappointment to the man who is not ma position to give them proper and almost exclusive attention at certain times during, the year.

''The sire is half the nerd or flock." ho far as it relates to purebred herds where each sex has an equal influence' ifc is true, but v,-here a-fcrub herd is to i>Q imploved by thb purebred sire then the-.?ire .becomeg more than' half the fceia, because all biood, line improvement must come through that sire