THE DAIRY BUSINESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 71, 29 July 1913, Page 4

THE DAIRY BUSINESS.

The annual meetings of shareholders in the Stratford Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association and the Midhirst Cooperative Daily Company were held yesterday, and both passed off successfully. Both concerns show a fine record of the year's work, and shareholders are fortunate in obtaining the services of suoh Capable men as those who direct their affairs. Apart from ordinary matters affecting the industry which always crop up at the annual meetings of dairy factory proprietors, there was the discussion on the appointment of a dairy and agricultural instructor. Stratford turned the proposition down, but Midhirst endorsed it, though it is more than likely that if the Stratford meeting had not dwindled down* to a rather thin one ft would have made a similar decision. In these days when science plays such a big part in obtaining good resnilts, everything in the direction of education ought to be encouraged, and it might have been as well had Stratford given a little more consideration to the matter before rejecting it. One question of outstanding importance was especially brought under notice by Mr S. McKenzie in his very convincing remarks regarding cow-testing. The comparisons given by him make interesting reading, and dairymen would do well to study them carefully. The enormous difference between a cow. returning a profit of something like £2O per annum and the member of the herd on which a dead lovss of £2 or £3, a year ,is incurred, must appeal to the most- careless and indifferent of dairymen, ■