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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9270, 4 August 1893, Page 5

A conference on the subject of " How to make farming more profitable" was held a short time since at Thornbury, when Mr. H. A. Howman delivered an address, in the course of which he stated as follows :—Six hundred gallons of milk a year was a fair average for a cow to give, and the relative results of the realisation of this milk was for buttermaking:- 2001b of butter, at Is 2d per pound, £11 3s id ; 530 gallons of skim-milk at Id, £2 4s 2d : total, £13 17s 6d : being 5Jd per gallon for milk. Cheesemaking :—6oolb of cheese at 6d, £15; 540 gallons of whey at id, £1 2s 6d ; being 6Jd per gallon for milk. Milk-sailing : —600 gallons at b'd, £15. What ho wished to impress on the farmers in this district was the necessity of making cheese during the summer months, and selling the milk in the winter, as higher prices would bo obtained for milk in the winter than the p "mrr.cr.