ECONOMY IN DAIRYING

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1640, 12 May 1925, Page 7

ECONOMY IN DAIRYING

PeThaps the 'greatest economy that can be carried out on a dairy farm is in the direction of making the herd produce more without increasing the number. A standard of production should be set up. A dairy farmer must say to himself, "Any cow that does not faring in £2O per annum is not worth keeping." A cow is a machine for producing milk. If a manufacturer has a machine wlhich, in spite of oiling and cleaning and careful driving, will not produce as much as a newer machine, he promptly discards it in favour of the newer article. The cow that will not respond to careful feeding and shelter must be culled out. The farmer is not compelled to make a sudden change. By the expenditure of £SO or £IOO on a good hull, with a milking pedigree 'behind him, in a few years the herd may be worked up into a more payable proposition. In an American town the faankers and fausiness men formed a " better-faull association." They sent away for a hundred bulls and disposed of them to the dairy farmers on easy terms, more bulls being .purchased as the instalments on former loans came in. As 'business men they recognised that the easiest way to meet low prices was to increase the. production per cow.