FEED AND MILK.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 6524, 26 December 1917, Page 1

FEED AND MILK.

Some argue that secreting milk is a kind of habit; if this is so, then it is to our interest to encourage this habit in every possible way, and this cannot be done, if feed is scarce.' Just the same thing arises when wo come to the question which is often discussed as to which time is the best for a heifer to come into milk, If, as some argue, milk secretion is only a habit, thon it might reasonably be said that tho sooner she acquires that habit tho bolter for the dairyman; whereas othors suy tho cow should not bo bred until slw gats, full : grown, contending that the demand on I tho young animal by the growing fetus and her own growth are too severe, and that she is likely lo be stunted. In this, however, there is likoiy to be wide differences of opinion as thete are many factors which guide the uuc 'rtainty at- j tending tho question whether it is ad- . visablo to breed a. heifer so as to lumber drop her first calf at tvo yearn dj- | ponds largely on the individual animal; ' if she b. vigorous, healthy, and well , grown, il will probably be belie.- lo breed from her rather young, inJ i n i courage life milking habit from the beginning ; otherwise she may anpirie the habit of laying on tlosn and' be los j valuable as a milker.

In asking recently for exemption from militiry service for Mr. J. J. Heard, home missionary of the two home mission charges of Papatowai and Waikawa, Rev. S. W. Currie gave some interesting facts as to the way the ministers and students of the Prcsbytorian Church bad voluutoersd for service it the front. Twenty-six ministers went to the front as chaplains or to the lighting line, and of these several had been killed. Twelve home missionaries and 20 theological students, and another 23 University students loooking forward to the theological course, had also : u one capacity or another volunteered and been accepted, The Church is now in, need of some 20 home missionaries and 40 ministers to, 1111 her. vacancies.