THE COUNTRY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10848, 14 March 1921, Page 6

THE COUNTRY

DAIRYING. Cows in the Pallia tua. and f&sWnnia districts are going off fast in their milk yields (writes the ’"nines” correspondent). It is only since the beginning of the month that factories have noticed an appreciable falling-off in daily returns. Nevertheless dairymen have done much better in this district than in most places. Cheese factories predominate, and fanners sire pleased that they did not turn over to nutter-mak-ing when the temporary fall took place. 7 ‘We have found,” said- a shareholder, “that the chopping and changing is no good to a factory—it is too expensive for one thing.” The grass on the hula and flats round Konini, Hukanui, and Nireaha are looking exceptionally fresh and green for this time of the year. A very fine stack of meadow hay was taken off a four-acre paddock near Hukanui. which the owner was pleased to show your correspondent. This land had been drained, sweetened and limed; the care; ful study of the soil in this paddock has induced the farmer to at once stamp, drain, und lime another -paddock. Root crops, such as turnips and mangolds, which have been sown for winter teed, are numerous and look in splendid heart The banks of the Manawata river at WoodvHle, which a few months. ago were covered with arid-looking silt, due to the big flood last year, art going back to pasture very qfuiokly.