HOSPITAL MILK SUPPLY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15638, 4 October 1921, Page 4

HOSPITAL MILK SUPPLY.

AMPLE. EAR"' REQUIREMENTS. 1 There, is great virtue in a good open discussion.. At- -the'last meetiuß of the Hospital, Board remai ks were-passed, upon the productivity ot the cowa^MW^the. 'hospital..farm,;. and_ a sugcestioh^was'.made., that some of them ehould be. xeplaced/.and a better supply of milk for. the institution thus secured. 'As'the latter was left, it, was for trie cowsH;o show what they could do, and the;result,should prove more factory to those members who feared cows had adopted a go-slow policy.. Since the last Board meeting, production -has .been speeded up, and the \ farm complement, of cows now supplies sufficient-■'milk for the Hospital, the Nurses' Home, and the Old Peoples Home, and also provides a surplus that. is separated for the factory. The .facts' about , the present production :were given to a reporter yesterday/by. "Mr. W. J. McCliskie, who is mainly responsible for the supervision of /the farm. work. Mr. McCliskie does not-attribute the increase to the publicity, .afforded the discussion at the Board meeting, but to the natural relation between the quantity of milk produced and the number of cows milking m.fuU profit At the*-time of the 1 Board's canvass of the situation, several cows-were, just ''drying off," and production, .was about at its lowest ebb. Since that date several other cows have come in, and with the advance of the season-tbo milk has largely increased in quantity. , '/• ' AsJor the suggestion that any of the present herd should be replaced, Mr. McCliskie .considers that this is not at all/a necessary step. The existing herd is jof.fi good stamp, giving an excellent avbrage-of milk,.-probably as good as any.;other herd. On the other hand* there, are on the farm over a dozen young; heifers, of all ages, from a few i weeks to ,15 or 18 months, and the first, of these will be coming into profit before long. .In the process of time, the older,,'cow's would thus all.be replaced without any expense to the Board or the farm management. It is. in his opinion, beyond argument that it is good policy to produce the young stock on the farm, rather than replace the older cows by others, from outside.