MAUKU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 47, 29 November 1912, Page 2

MAUKU.

PROFITABLE FARMING. A first-class crop of potatoes, a patch ot ;") acre?, owned by Mr J. Steemon, ia calling f.irth very favourable comment. It is really a picture, and shoul I ji'ivc a veiy profitable return. Planting was started on Ist August and finished by the 30th, a mixture of 11 super,

8 bone, and 1 uf potash wbs used a\. the rat <fl4cwt to the a-re. Mr, Steenson dug 1 acre of an earlier crop in October, which yielded about! G ton per acre, and sold at £l7 per ton. On this farm are also a smaW herd of dairy cuwb, a cheque £2O being received fcr the nine c>A milk during the month of Uctober™ Mr C. Nott, of Patumahoe, this latter record though, with £4l 5s from 17 cows for the frame month. Ihi i pans out at £2 8s 6o\ and should take some beating. A record of 9001ba from the same place from 18 cows is one day's milk. How many of our farmers' herds can boast of an average of 501bs of milk per cow a day? On another farm at Mauku another example of our quality ecmes to A heifer not yet l years' old is yielding 501bs of milk per day. Have other districts anything better?