PROFITABLE FARMING.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1521, 26 February 1886, Page 3

PROFITABLE FARMING.

The process at Deanford Hall is to remove about one-third of the cream from the previous night's milking, because if the whole were left the cheese would not be of such uniform quality, ami would be much more dilli uSt to manipulate, while the cream that is removed brings in a handsome item in butter. The accounts are kept with great c<tre, and appended is the dairy accouat for 1883: —Cheese from 17 cows, £7OO 2s; butter, £iOS 7s 41; whey valued at-30s a cow, £ll7 10,-; calves sold, £110; calves reared, 1-3 calves at £2, £30 —total, £ll9l IDs Id. These results seem so astonishing that Mr Nuunerly, at the request of the judges, weighed the milk yielded on a giveD day —June 12, LSB4 and the cheese produced on June 20, fourteeu days after ; this was tested, and found to correspond most accurately with the returns rendered, and well, indeed, the judges may have said that such results were " almost unique in the history of cheese makers.'' There is also an account kept for pigs on the same farm, which are duly debited with the whey at £ll7 10s, and the corn and meal consumed, and yet they show a profit of £OO 8s Od. x\nd all this sayß nothing of the arable land, upon which the results wero very remarkable. Ten tons of potatoes are grown per acre, and as much aB -44 bushels of wheat at sixty pounds per bushel on the same quantity of land. It will be se?n that the gross product of this farm of 187 acres is considerably more than £2OOO per annum, indeed, it is estimated at £l2 to £l3 peracie. —Enylish Illustrated Magazine.