Farming to Fay.

Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 10 April 1890, Page 20

Farming to Fay.

We take the following letter from the Dally Times:—

Sir, In your Issue of the sth inst. I notice an article copied from a Callfornian paper giving the astonishing results of the successful (arming of 40 aorea there for one Beason, and I now ask you to kindly add the following extract from the Hural New Yorker of February 1 to that, record:—

" As an instance of farming that pays, the Rural New Yorker quotes from a recent letter from Massachusetts as follows :

" ' From 16 cowa I have made during the year 1889, 50191b of butter -about 3141b per cow— and a< it hai been sold mostly afc 35 cents per lb— some brought 45 cents— l got ove- lOOdol from each cow.' " Wd have every reason to believe that this statement is absolutely correot. Now we will agree to say that the ancestors of those cows could not yield over 1251b of butter to save their lives, and that the cream they did furnuh could hay* been made into butter tha r > would have found dull sale at 20 cents per lb ISTow the Rural New Yorker wants to know what secrets of breediug, feeding, and working this correspondent possesses that make a difference of 75'J0l per cow. Are th»y secrets or can any Intelligent !"an r>a'ter Hj> l m by hnnpst study anr 1

Ju). <tlli>w iUbi<D:KV Urnl Inm b.iUahudlha'., there arts many ptaceb iv New Zealand uh«?ro equally as good returns could he taken from the same number of acres ns in California, iftho same skill and science svai arlopt.ed hew. And »b to dairy farming In Massachusetts, no doubt thab is a splendid record given ; but I maintain no v, aud have always done, thnt neither Mass .ohusetts nor any other State in the Uuiou, or Canada, could compete wifch this country if the same skill and science was followed in its manufacture here as there. Stook I know we have as good ; pasture also as good ; and a climate 6uporiorto any part of America or Europe for dairy farming.— l am, &c, April 7. W. D. SUTHERLAND.

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