THE DAIRY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 898, 17 May 1889, Page 18

THE DAIRY.

The enormous development of the dairy interest in Sweden is shown by the exports of 18S5, which were nearly twenty-five million pounds, against only fifty thousand pounds in 1861. The Government employs travelling dairy teachers at a salary of SI,OOO a year and expenses, to visit the faims and give instructions in making butter and feeding stock. Two dairy colleges were established in connection with the two royal agricultural colleges at Alnavp and Ulpuna, and the Government also pays $42 a year to a limited number of girls who learn to make butter and eher e on good dairy farms, stipulating that they must do all the work in the dairy, including milking the cows aud feeding the calves. The farmer with whom tho girls are placed must instruct them in dairy management and in read ng, writing and arithmetic. He receives $27 from eaah girl for this insinuation, and the girls pay for their board with their work. Some remarkable comparisons between agricu ; tnre in France and the United States are made below. The French stati tics are from the agricultural census of 1882, while those of America aro from the census of 18S0. Of course our population, and probably tho number of small farms, has greatly increased during the last eight years. The total number and acreage of farms in this country has also increased marvellously since the last census, but in spite of this it will take more than another century for the same proportion of the United States to be classed as improved land as is the case in France.

Lord Hampden’s dairy factor" near Lewes, Eng., receives about eight thousand quarti of milk a day, for which the farmers are paid threo to four cents per quart delivered at the factory. The butter sells readily ftt twenty-six to thirty cents per pound net at the creamery, about eight quarts of Jersey milk yielding a pound of butter. The separated skim-milk sells quickly at ouo aud ouo-half cents per quart Farmers in the same place who ship whole milk to London get only three to three and one-half cents per quart, and find the creamery more profitable. BONNET FOR UNRULY BULLS. John W. Byrnes, after trying many experiments. ha 3 at last hit upon a means to coutrol bulls, by which he avoids all jump, ing or breaking fences. Mr Byrne takes a piece of lumber 12 x 14 and inches thick, puts a holo opposite the hole ol each horn, then runs a wire through these holes and around each horn and tnisla the ends together. He then takes a strong pioce of cloth about 18 x 36 and nails over tho board, letting it fall over the jaws, and ties the two upper corners together back of the horns. This makes the best bonnet he has ever tried, and he suggests that farmers who have unruly animals would do well to give it a trial. —Lakeport Democrat.

France. United States. Population 50,152,S66 Total area, acres .. 153,600,000 1,936,940,560 Acres in farms ...124,935,529 536,081 835 Number of farmB ... 5,672,000 4,008,907 Average acres in farms... 33.17 134 Farms under 3 acres ... 2,167,667 4,352 Farms of 3 to 10 acres... ... 1,865,878 134,889 Farms of 10 to 20 acres... ... 769,152 254,749 Farms of 50 to 100 acreB... ... 727,222 1,864,334 Farms, over 100 serfs ... 142, OSS 1,800,533