ONE COMMON GROUND

Putaruru Press, Volume XXI, Issue 1235, 19 June 1947, Page 2

ONE COMMON GROUND

Sixty guineas spent on a wellhied hull can be a poor investment if the standard of nutrition on the farm “is not in keeping with the price paid for the herd sire. It would 1 be profitable on many farms' to spend half that money on the bull and put the balance into topdressing, pasture improvement, or the provision of supplementary feed. It is not possible, however, to be dogmatic on the best methods of feeding. Successful, dairy farmers, by observing the reaction of their stock and their bank balances’, have evolved very different systems of feeding- and feed conservation to suit the particular circumstances- of their farms. It will be found that a common ground in all cases is good pasture management. Each successful farmer realises that fresh leafy pasture is the best and cheapest food for milking; stock under New Zealand conditions, and that no crop or conserved pasture can approach good grass in efficiency. The main effort in -each instance is designed to provide a supply of such grass for as long a period as possible over the dairying season.