DAIRY JOTTINGS.

New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 7

DAIRY JOTTINGS.

At Liverpool last week a man was convicted and fined, says the Agricultural Gazette, for selling ' filled' cheese as the genuine article. T-ie evidence showed that the cheese was make of skim milk, ' enriched ' with beef fat; and lard. This commodity, it was stated by the defence, waa made by the United Creameries Company of Glasgow, and ' was wholesome,' the beef fat making it more palatable and digestible.' A gentleman is reported to have declared that tho cheese was wholesome, and ' recognised in all publications relating to agriculture.' Such cheese is recognised as an abomination in works on dairying, if that be what he means.

Here are some of the goods which England imports, and the amounts paid for them : Butter, 10£ millions ; eggs, 3| millions ; poultry and game, half million ; cheese, 5 millions ; and 5 millions of potatoes, onions, vegetables and raw fruit; in all 24£ million pounds' worth. It is to be hoped that tho time ia not far distant when the Australian Colonies will be able to participate very largely in this annual outlay.

Four railway companies—the Great Western, the Great Eastern, the South-western, and the North-eastern —bring into London about 20,000,000 gallons of milk every year.

In view of the hold that ' plouro pneumonia' has upon the cattle on the mainland of Australia, Mr Tabart, chief inspector of stock for Tasmania, says the Australasian, sees an opportunity for the establishment of stud herds of tho various breeds of cattle in the island colony. These herds, being frte from all taint of the disease, would, he thinks, be much sought after by cattlo breeders in Australia and New Zealand. He believes that Tasmania might be made a great centre for breeding stud cattle, as they could be taken to the other colonies free of quarantine. Having, during his late visit to New Zealand, attended some of the leading shows, he ia satisfied that the standard of excellence in maoy breeds of cattle is higher in Tasmania than in New Zealand. That may be so, but I doubt if the island herds are at all to be compared to the shorthorns, Herefords, polled Angus, Devons, Ayrshire and Jersey herda of the mainland. To rival our best stud herds the Tasmanian breeders would have to spend very large sums of money in importing cattle from the Old Country, and even then it is by no means a certainty that they could produce anything like the animals derived from our famous hords.

A correspondent of a contemporary says that the general consensus of opinion amongst merchants seems to be against shipping butter made in the form of pats or rolls. There is virtually no demand for this class of article, and the butter which has boen shipped in this shape has failed to obtain prices which could be said to remunerative, or which could in any way compare with those obtained for the ordinary 561 b packages.

Never let a calf drink all it will, for by doing this the chances are that at the next feeding it will not take any. The same amount fed three times a day instead of twice, will make a large percentage of difference in the growth of the calf. As increase in size is made, the mesa of milk can be increased, only do it gradually. Now, in place of increasing the feed in milk, it is a good plan to add a grain ration. But this should not be done until the calf haa got to eating hay and chewing its cud. Have in your pen a stall or place where some good bright hay can be kept, and when the calf eats that rapidly you are safe to add the grain ration, and the trouble that often cornea in scouring, &c., will seldom if ever occur. Have a box that can be kept clean and dry, and in this feed the grain.