FARMING NEWS.
RURAL RAKINGS. BUTTERFAT INCREASE. The recent warm rains have tended to greatly increase butterfat supplies in the Gisborne district. Fewer “Bobby” Calves. Due to tho campaign for the keeping of as many heifer calves from good producing slock as possible, the Gisborne district “bobby” calf pool committee states that there has been a slight decrease in the number of calves collected this season compared with last year. Rival to Butter. When attention was directed at a recent meeting of a Taranaki dairy company to the practice in some Dominion schools of teaching the cookery’ classes the use of margarine, one shareholder voiced his opinion strongly against its use in preference to butter. The secretary-manager stated that the growing use of margarine was a menace to bo faced, and the surest way to meet it was to lower tho cost and popularise the use of butter. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 226, 22 August 1940, Page 12
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147FARMING NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 226, 22 August 1940, Page 12
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