NEW ZEALAND DAIRY NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND DAIRY NOTES.

(Dairyman, for March.)

The total supply of milk to the Kihikiki creamery (Waikato) for February was 20,750ga1. On the 12th of this month the daily supply was llOOgal.

Milking should be done rapidly, and it is therefore not well to have too many hands employed in the woik. With one milke r to a dozen cows Ihere is more likelihood of efficiency of work than when half the cows make up the tale. The slow hand gets le=s milk and dvys the cow.

The milk supply in the Wairaiapa district is still keeping up, and the season in this respect is a record one. There is a super abundance of grass, and sheep and cattle everywhere are looking well. The quality cf the milk supplied to the factories is above tn? average at this season of the year, and is richer in butter-fat than usual.

An order for 50 boxes of butter for Sotith Africa was placed in Wellington last week at a price rqu.il to 9|d per lb f.o.b. Instructions were givan to have the cases wirebound at each end, avd the buying firm wrote that they would prefer the boxes shipped in sacks containing two boxes cadi. Th • consignment went via Melbourne.

Breed is all right, but the cow which will produce the n'ost butter from the investment of a given amount of money is the be^t animal for the dairy farmer. Berau c certain families amma'i are most highly prized is becauto they lime a d.btinttnc

faculty for production along a certain line. Don't let an individual ot the herd go become she is not of a fashionable colour or stiipe. An understanding has been arrived at between the Taieri and Peninsula Milk Supply Company, Dunedin, and the Noith^ Otago Dairy Company, by which the Kakanui River is to be the boundary between the re-pective districts from which each cornpony will draw its supply of milk. The North Otago factory at Oamaru is nearing completion, and will probably be leady for work during this month. As an indication of the value of the dairying industry to the district, it may be stated that the value of milk received at the fuglevvood factory and its creameries for the month of January alone totalled £3116 18s sd. As Inglewood is the centre of half a dozen co-operative factories, it will be further seen what an important pait the dairy industry plays in the welfare and progress of this" locality and contiguous district. There are at present three large dairy companies at the Plate (Argentine) all of which are doing a rapidly increasing business. One-half the present output, 12 tons of butter per day, is exported to England, aad the remainder if consumed locally^ The farmers and companies are scouring Europe for the best dairy ptock. One large Danish company rents 35,000 acre 3 close to Buenos Ayres at £7800 per annum. The cattle are mostly Durhams and Holstsin?. In reply to deputations which saw him at Havvera and Stratford and put forward a plea for a dairy school, the Hon. Mr Duncan, Mmi=ter for Lands, said he would see fiat Taranaki had fair play, but as there was to be only one school for each island the Cabinet would have to consider the claims of Wellington and other places. In the interests of the industry, dairy schools wcie necessary, but at the moment ho could not say that Hawera was the best place for such a school.