Breeds and Production.

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 232, 2 October 1935, Page 12

Breeds and Production.

The New South Wales Department oi Agriculture has issued a list or the breeds and names of all cows in New South Wales which have exceeded production records of S3olb. hutter-iat (equal to 10001 b. commercial butter) in 365 da vs or less. The record extends from November 17, 1916, and includes 30 Jerseys, 11 Australian Illawarra Shorthorns, seven Guernseys, two Ayishires and one Friesian. The number of Friesian cows in the State is much smaller than of the other breeds mentioned. Top of the list- is the famous Ltiverina Milking Shorthorn cow, Melba 15th of Darbalara, which, beginning a test in February, 1922, yielded 13161 b. butter-fat. This she improved on in the next year, which she set up tho record of 16141 b. butter-fat. Second on the list is a Jersey, Wagga Gladys, owned by tho Department of Agriculture. In her tests, commencing December 192 G, she gave 11491 b. butter-fat. She’ bettered this in 1932 with 13591 b. butter-fat, equal to 1517.661 b. Commercial butter.

Foot-and-Mouth. The fourteenth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in South Dorset since the first case on January 12 was notified on February 3 at a farm at West Knighton, where 335. sheep were destroyed. Nearly 3000 cattle and sheep were destroyed in 10 days.

Cheap Winter Feed. A pig-keeper who has a well-laid out pig plant, splendidly built, is carrying his pigs on to baconer weights and on a diet which promises to become the most popular form of winter feeding in this country where milk is not available. It is" meat meal, molasses and carrots, says a Waikato writer. He proposes to use slb. of meat meal_ ,a day, though it would be probably better touso lib., as he will have no other protein. He will mix Sib. of molasses in 40 gals, of water, and each pig will get 3 to 4 gals, of this a day. Then the pigs will get all the carrots they need, lie has a fine field of carrots because he has regularly intercultivated the crop and therefore has had good development of the roots. The pigs will also havo some grass. He has controlled the grass in the runs, and so with the aid of the pig manure wnJ probably have good grass.