THE ADVANTAGES OF DAIRYING.

Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1477, 9 February 1903, Page 2

THE ADVANTAGES OF DAIRYING.

Recently Mr H. W. Pott6, Principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, delivered a very interesting lecture at Richmond, New South Wales, on ' Dairying : Its relation to General Farming.' At tne end of the lecture Mr Potts tcbulated the advantages of dairying as follows : 1. That it takes less fertility out of the soil than auy other f'rm of agriculture, and hence it is useful in following a well-regulated system of rotation. 2. That it can be combined readily with other forma of agriculture or horticulture. 3. The dairy provides in winter a quantity of stable manure in which the straw from the faim is profitably utilised. 4 The by - products from the cow, skim-milk, whey, and butter-milk, are a source of income in raising pigs and calves. 5. Dairying gives constant and regular employment of a light character to every member of a farmer's family. G. Danying ineulcites. habits of punctuality, industry, cleanliness, and hrift on the farm 7. Cheese and butter are condensed products, and the cost of carriage, in comparison with their value, is less than thit of any other farm product. S. That the demand for good butter and cheese on the world's markets is unlimited, and so long as the quality is maintained an all-round, eveuand profitable price can always be secured. 9. The existing system of preparing our dairy products for export enables the farmer to rely on a constant and certain income. The monthly cheque from the factory or other sources provides the mainstay in the household as against the precarious returns from yearly crops. 10. In mixed farming the income from the dairy is the most reliable. 11. The farmer's household, as a result of dairy work, is always supplied with fresh milk and cream, butter, cheese, pork, bacon and veal. 12. Storekeepers, traders, bankers and financial men and politicians all fully realise, after years of experience, that wherever dairy farming is conducted farmers are most prosperous, mortgages are rarely found, and the value of landed property becomes considerably enhanced.

13. That the labour and difficulty in milking cows ia now practically solved by the introduction of a cheap, effective, and easy-workiug milking-machine. We do not lay very much etress on number thirteen—it ia a bad number aDy way—as so far as any information we have been able to gather j?oes it tends in an oppositrt direction. No doubt a suitable michine will be an accomplished fact some day, but ' it is not yet,' and until it is we are inclined to think twelve reasons only should be taken as genuine.