SUCCESSFUL DAIRY FARMING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 5

SUCCESSFUL DAIRY FARMING.

William Parkinson of Jam's, Ontaiio, writes to Hoard's Dairyman and says he has aOO acre farm. He started poor, without, a dollar, and has expended 8100doU(L1620) onthatfarm. Ho keeps a number of good hens, fattens and sells 200 live hogs a year, makes a speciality of raising line carriage horses, besides taking a pride in his dairy. On this point he says : I will give you figures for 1895. Average number of cows, l\\. Total milk yield, 101,112 pounds, al nost 8800 pounds per cow. I make cheese almost the whole year; sold l\r> winter irake at 11 cents and the summer make of six 'months at 8] cents The s feed all grown on the farm with the exception of bran, L sell my wheat and buy bran. I mix it with ground oats and peas. I feed my cows grain, both winter and summer. The cows are grades, weighing from 1100 pounds to 1300 pounds. The highest test was 8 percent, fat for one cow only ; lowest test 310 per cent, All the rest -1 per cent., average test for the year 1 80 per cent. 1 have no use for a cow that will not give milk eleven months in the year. For 1891 my whole herd averaged 8950 pounds of milk per cow, which produced in cash an average of 102 do! (L2O 8s) per cow. Tins question naturally aiises: What did it cost to get that 102dol (1/20 8s) per cow ? First it cost a good cow ; that is the starling point. Next a good humane modern stable, nor only for winter but for summer as well, with a good fly trap attached, wire screens on the windows, blinds to darken it v, hen necessary >Vxt, good food and pbmly of it, good clem water three times each dly in summer and twice it) winter, and silt within the reach of eichcov ; a good comb and brush and the will to use them vigorously each day. Next, take the dog to the woods an I shoot him. The t\»oiill is this : —Plenty of good m mure t > pa) I'm- I lie lab air F n!y one, dollars (I s I ) I")"-- 'o.' the I'o-.1, and that Lmw.; Old il (LI I h)per cow as profit and re.vaid for trying to run a dairy as every ui'ii of sense ought lo run it.

My 1895 receipts give me a chai pnfit of 5310 l (Fin 12s) per cow. My bed oust me b'b' ioi(F7 F)percow. i in ike