8 May, 1907 



Cabbai(cs for the Dairy Herd. 



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Commendable Features. 



There are two items deserving of special notice in connexion with the 

 milk supply farms before mentioned. One is the systematic handling of 

 the milking, cooling, and subsequent washing up of utensils as carried 

 out by the Selm.an family on the Willow Vale farm. The work is so well 

 apportioned among its several members that the milk is cooled and in the 

 delivery waggon starting for the station, and the dair\- again clean and 

 tidy, before the last of the rattle is out of sight of the milking shed. 



On the Salvation Army farm the extreme quietness of the cattle is a 

 prominent feature. Here the herd i,s put through the milking process in 

 a shed of 54 bails Avithout any of them being fastened up. The shed is 

 fjlled, and the entrance door closed, and each cow stands free in her stall 

 till all are milked, when, the large doors being again opened, thev all 

 back quietly to the passage way and walk out. to be replaced by the rest 

 of the herd. When it is mentioned that the milking is done bv some fifteen 

 lads, from about ten tO' fourteen years of age, under the supervision of 

 a. shed manager, who places no undue restraint over their naturallv bovish 

 mirth so long as the work is done properlv, it speaks \olumes for the 

 consistent treatment of the cattle to see them chewing the cud so con^ 

 tentedlv while the lads scud about amongst them. 



CABBAGES AS FODDER FOR THE DAIRY HERD. 



p. J. Carroll, Dairy Expert. 



There is always a blank in the green food sujjpl}- of the farm between 

 the time when the last of the spring growth is exhausted and the first of 

 the summer crops is fit" to use. In otht^r words, between the time when 



FEEDING THE DAIRY HERD. 



the oats and green grass are finished and the maize or sorghum is fit to 

 cut. To meet this annuallv recurring want no better method can l)e 

 adopted than to plant a small area with some variety of cabljage. 



