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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5737, 4 November 1905, Page 10

Every daily farmer should commence this season to pay more attention to the milking quality of his cows, with a view to “weeding out.” A cow that gives a low yield is worse than no cow at all. It takes a full share of the feed without making an adequate return in milk. Such cows help to reduce tile average of tho herd below the margin of profit, and were better dried off at once and fattened for the butcher. For grass and vegetation generally, weather has been favourable, a splendid growth being observable during the week. Grass is now plentiful, the first result of which is a general improvement in tho condition of stock and rapidly increasing milk yield. Butterfat percentages are keeping up well, considering tho heavy milk supply, which is not usually conducive to that end, and this may bo attributed, in great measure, to the mild nights and absence of bleak winds. In tho course of an article on the proposed conference between spoilers and despoilers the “Wairarapa Daily Times” says;—“Eighteen employers, eighteen employees, and eighteen farmers are to meet in council in Dunedin. In the case of a menaced industry employers and employees may be expected to pull together, and say to , the eighteen farmers: ‘Dilly, Dilly, come and be plucked.’ But tho farmers are unlikely to be responsive.” ,