DAIRYING IN 3100 B.C.

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20635, 22 October 1938, Page 12

DAIRYING IN 3100 B.C.

Mr I. W. Scott, an Australian dairy | instructor, lias a remarkably compre- j hensive collection of illustrations of the < dairy industry, and at an illustrated lecture at Mullumbimby recently, one of the first slides shown was that of a mosaic in limestone depicting the milking of cows and the straining and storing of milk in 3100 B.C. Other illustrations showed that use of the product of the cow was made over &500 years ago in Central Asia, and in Uganda, in Central Africa. Hindus, Mr Scott said, used butter in the greatest and holiest of their worships, and with ancient Greeks and Romans it was a standard remedy for various usages. At the present time butter was worshipped in Tibet, as was shown by coloured slides taken of the annual butter festivals. Mr Scott traced the evolution of the various breeds, including that of the Australian 311awarra Shorthorns, the advance in but-ter-fat production, and the progress of butter-making, including the Banned churn, which appeared early in the nineteenth century, to the present comprehensive units.