PROFITABLE DAIRY FARMING IN ENGLAND.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 251, 9 April 1886, Page 2

PROFITABLE DAIRY FARMING IN ENGLAND.

The process ;it Doarnford Hull is to remove about one-third of the cream from the previous night’s milking, because if the whole wore loft the choose coftld notbc of such uniform (juality, and would be much more dilUcult to manipulate, while the cream that is removed brings in a handsome item in butter. The accounts are kept with great care, and appendonded is tlie dairy account for 1880 : —Glieoso from 47 cows, £71)7 2s ; ■ butter, £B>B (is 4d ; whey vahiorl at 50s a cow, £ll7 10s; calves sold, £110; calves reared, 45 at .£2, .£9O; total, .£ll9l 17s sd. These results seem so astonishing that Hr Nunaorly, at the request of the judges, weighed the milk yielded on a given day —June 12, 1884 —and the cheese produced on Juno 20, fourteen days after ; tins was tested, and found to correspond most accurately with the returns rendered, and well indeed the judges may have said that such results were “ almost unique in the history of cheese makers/’ There is also on account kept for pigs on the same farm, which was duly debited with the whey at £ll7 10s and the corn and meal consumed, yet they shewed a profit of £OO 8s Od. And all this says nothing of the arable land, upon which the results were very remarkable. Ten tons of potatoes are grown per acre, and as much as forty-four bushels of wheat at sixtypouuds per bushel on the same quantity of land. It will thus be seen that the gross product of this farm of 187 acres is considerably more than £2OOO per annum. Indeed, it is estimated at £l2 to £ls per aero.—The English Illustrated Magazine tor November.