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shed is a storeroom for fodder, 25 feet by 15 feet, and through this a 

 tramway is to run down the shed in front of the manger to facilitate 

 ihe work of feeding. One of these sheds is now completed and the 

 remaining five are to be erected as required on the same principle and 

 on the space reserved for them in the same paddock. This paddock has 

 a gentle slope to the east,, which will allow for good drainage of the 

 sheds and approaches. Lower down the hill from these sheds provision 

 has been made for twelve small paddocks to be used for the milkers at 

 night in fine weather. It is the intention of the management to keep the 

 cows in lots of 50 head, treating each as a separate herd. This will 

 allow of extended feeding or other tests being made, such as may be 

 likely to lead to improved methods, and prove instructive to such students 

 as may seek to gain practical experience on a large farm carried out on 

 up-to-date principles. 



Across the farm road, and adjoining the grounds surrounding the 

 manager's residence, about an acre has been reserved for anv future 

 building requirements that may arise. At the far end of this area from 

 the road, on the left side, the employes" quarters are situated. These 

 comprise a large weatherboard building containing kitchen, dining-room, 

 two dormitories, and two bath-rooms, all lofty, well lighted and neatlv 

 fitted. The dormitories call for special mention. They run lengthways 

 from the dining-room, off which doors open to both. At the far end of 

 each are the lavatories with plunge and shower baths. The berths are 

 in two double tiers, each containing a roomy bunk, with wire and kapok 

 mattrass, locker, shelf, &c. The windows are fitted with flv-wire and 

 the whole place is roomy and well ventilated. Better arranged quarters it 

 would be hard to find, and much credit is due to the management for 

 thus thoughtfully providing for the comfort of their men after the day's 

 toil. Were more consideration shown by employers in this and similar 

 ways it would tend towards producing a better class of labour, the lack 

 of which is often commented on by dairvmen. 



The dairy buildings are situated on the immediate right at the 

 t-ntrance of the last-mentioned reserved area. The first of these is a 

 two-storied brick building, the lower portion of which is to be fitted as 

 a refrigerating-room. Upstairs is the milk testing room, which it is 

 intended to furnish with every convenience requisite for the work — Mr. 

 Baird being a very firm believer in the benefits to be derived from 

 systematic testing of the yields. In the next building to this the 

 separating, cooling, and general dairy work is done; and a pulley-hoist is 

 at the door for loading and unloading the milk. Next to this is the 

 l)oiler-house, and a temporary steaming-room with vats for scalding feed 

 as required for any of the stock. Still following down the right side 

 of this reserved area the last of the buildings is the stabling. All of 

 these, with the exception of the steaming-room, have bricked floors, and 

 thev are kept as clean as their several uses will allow. Again returning 

 to the main farm road — to facilitate description — the next building to the 

 refrigerating-room, hut across a wide entrance-wav, is the milking-shed 

 which stands parallel with the main road. This is the first of the 

 proposed four, and accommodates 50 cows — 25 on each side — with a 

 feeding passage down the centre. It is fitted for Hartnett machines, 

 twelve being in use, driven by 6-h.p. engine. The bails are shut and 

 opened in section by an ingenious yet simple system of pullevs and 

 weights which was designed by Mr.' Mackenzie, ' the Trust's engineer. 

 The lower lioards on the side of the shed are made to hing-^^ up to allow 



