NORTHERN WAIROA DAIRYING

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15047, 17 July 1912, Page 4

NORTHERN WAIROA DAIRYING

• With the increasing price?- foi gscd pastoral country the calling of the grazier in the Northern Wairoa is (Writes our Dargsville correspondent) diminishing, and - several iniewattd feastoraiictsi predict that in the near future all beef raised in the North will be consumed by the local communities. No farmer can profitably raise cattle on land which 13 leaping towards £30 and £40 an acre, and that class of soil must bo treated from a dairying standpoint, Th-s annual consumption of cattle in the district approxi- ' mates oGGO head, which constitutes a demand which must be met before the Auckland market can be served. With the advent of the Jersey tho annual amount ■of beef catrte raised has? .;onskk-r,»blv fa Lion and the shortage is each venr bk-oinina more pronounced. If drtivyinen vrera to favour the HoLstein in preference to th<r .Jeraey, the demand could in a sense be regulated, but, so far, milk suppliers a'ro Pining their frith on the latter strain. Tho weekly output of the Northern Wairo;v Dairy Company is now close on 90001b, and in the course of another month that quantity is expected to be doubled. Some AO more milkiug plants are beiiiu installed on various farms, and the number now in J commission exceeds 50. All herds are beI wig increased, and the coming season proI miscs to be most pros««iH)Hß." Cows of all ; descriptions command big prices, and tin lu&mand cannot ba met. An ox I opinion irom Mr. H. T. ])n«n.s,' tho dsirv ; company e expert, has "been given in favour ;oi the Hc-klein-Jemy cross, which a « ihas had Up opportunity of studying in ! various localities. This cross, he maintains, is ideal for the milk supplier, and more^ ! over furnishes a better class of. beef, tfean ' j is obtained from the Jersey alone