ANBWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19010, 29 July 1933, Page 19 (Supplement)

ANBWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Blood In Milk. “ Perplexed.”—The best treatment for blood appearing in milk of oows lately calved Is a teaspoonful of oalolum laotate In some dry food twice dally.

* * • * Rest Between Oalvlngs.

T.M., King Country.—Yes, undoubtedly a good rest between calvings Is beneficial. Hammond, of Cambridge University, has found on a critical examination of herd-test figures that the length of time a cow was dry was found to have a large effeot on her yield; with second oalvers the effect was much greater, he says, and it is suggested that this Is because, In addition to whatever faotors may be operating with old cows, young ones make growth if allowed a fair rest; whether xve are to understand this as bodily or mammary growth it Is dlffloult to deolde, but probably the latter is more important. Hammond also found that autumn calvers gave more milk than did spring calvers. * «■ o * Impracticable. T.Y., Bay of Plenty.—lt would be quite impracticable to deliver your milk to a cheese factory through a pipe line and then pump the whey back through the same pipe, no matter how clean the pipe was kept. * * * * Lime In Drinking Wator.

“ Novice.’’—lt Is always a good practice to keep lime In drinking water troughs, even for pigs, especially in districts where the source of the water supply is volcanlo oountry. Much of our water supply is very 'deficient In lime. No, the ideal pig trough has yet to be constructed.