DAIRY FARMS IN GERMANY

North Otago Times, 3 November 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)

DAIRY FARMS IN GERMANY

lii the course of an interesting re-! port oil agriculture in the Rhenish Province, Dr lvoeiiig, the British Consul at Dussoklo'rf, gives some interest-, inp; notes on dairy farms, 110 says; that in the neighbourhood of the towns : we find extensivo dairy farms; 011 these; little or hardly any live stock is bred;; tlio farmers b.uv their cows in calf or : an fresh milkers and feed them so highly with artificial foods and cakes! that by tlio time they give below a cortain amount of milk they arc fat and ] ready for the butcher. ! Tlio cattle net as much as 14 to lGlbs | of cako or meal per day and head, | which is. tho regular ration on dairy [ farms feeding for milk and subso- j qnently for the butcher. ' j Up to finite recently the farmers in 1 tlio dairy farms bought Dutch cows I largely; of lato this importation of'. Dutch live stock (cattle) was prohibited j in order to prevent tho importation of 1 disease.. This has beeii very much felt by tho farmers, as fresh milkors and cows in calf havo become very expensive. In time , the Rhenish, province farmer may be able to supply tho dairy farmers' demand for. fresh milkers, but it will take time. The rearing of good high-class breeds' of cattle "is very much encouraged and highly subsidised by the Government authorities through ths cattle breeding associations, 1 I