Dairying in Canada.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7663, 24 June 1896, Page 4

Dairying in Canada.

An example of what may be done with carefully selected cows, well managed, is given by Mr William Parkinson, of Jarvis, Ontario, iv Hoard's Dairyman. His average number of cows in 1890 was 11-J, and the total milk yield whs 101,1121 b, averaging nearly 88001 b, or BGogal per cow. Cheese was made during nearly all the year, and sold at 11 cents a pound for the winter make, and 8i cents for the summer make. Allthefood, except bran, was grown on the farm of 50 iicres, and wheat was sold to pay for the bran, which was mixed with ground oats and peas. This dry food is given all the year round, and, whatever some theorists may say to the contrary, it must be credited in part with the richness of tho milk, which showed an average of 4.8 per cent, of fat. The food cost. 36d0l per cow, and a clear profit of over 53d<>l per cow was obtained. In 1894 the results were still better. The average yield of milk was 89501 b, or 870 gal per cow, and the cash return 102.85d01. The cost of feeding is put at 41dol, leaving a profit of 61.85d01, or fully Ll2 per cow, putting the valua of the munure against the cost of attendance. This is an extraordinary result (remarks the London Standard), and it is impossible to say whether Mr Parkinson charges enough for the keep of the cows. But 87Ogal at 5d per gallon, which Mr Parkinson would probably average, including the value of the whey, would amount to LlB 2s 6d, and that sum would certainly leave a large margin of profit in Canada. On his fifty acres he also fattens 200 pigs in a year, besides keeping a good many poultry and breeding a few carriage horses. Greater returns have been made in England in past times; but the expenses were much heavier than they are in Canada, and tho price of milk or cheese was then n good deal higher than it wns in 1894 nnd 1895. It is mainly tho great average yield of milk that make 9Mr Parkinson's profit largo.