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the fat reached 4' 90 per cent. Observations -were continued, with 

 varying results, right up to the end of the year 1906, as is seen in the 

 table given belo"vr : — 



Milk Samples from County of Cumbekland Farmer, New South Wales, 

 above referred to. 



Date. ITotal Solids. 



20/7 06 



18/8/06 



4 9'W) 



13-40 

 11-38 

 12-82 



Solids Not 

 Fat. 



8 40 

 8 18 

 7 92 



Fat. 



rroo 



3-20 

 4-90 



3-75 



Morning's milk, 16 cows, '74 % ash. 



From milk of 55 cows. Night's milk. 



Sample taken liy Mr. Pedeisen. 

 Froiri 8-gallon ctm. Morning's milk. 



Sample taken oy Mr. Pedersen. 

 From l(t gallon can. Morning's milk. 



Sample taken bj' Mr. Pedersen. 

 Night's milk. 

 Morning's milk. 



Night's milk. 

 Morning's milk. 



Appeal to the Cow. 



When it is considered that these figui-es were obtained from a 

 herd of at least fifty cows, one has to do some thinking before recom- 

 mending that the solids not fat should reach 8'5 as a minimum in 

 any legal standards that are adopted. In fact, whatever standard is 

 adopted in any State, in my opinion it should cany with it an appeal 

 to the cow on similar lines to the system now adopted in England. 



Following the matter up, I have caused frequent observations to 

 be made of the millv supplied oy the different breeds of cattle at the 

 Stat© Stud Pami, near Beny, where animals of all breeds are 

 stationed, the cattle being all the progeny of imported stock on both 

 sides. 



In the district of Beny we have had for two years now what we 

 might term a summer drought. Rains have been hea-vy during the 

 winter on each occasion, but no spring rains fell either in 1907 or 

 1908 on that part of the South coast, the result being that cattle have 

 had rather a trying time; but their condition, of course, has been 

 kept up by the aid of hand-feeding. Green feed has, howevei', been 

 scarce, and the general conditions might be described during the entire 

 summer of 1907, and the present summer so far, as abnormal. 



Tlie following figures represented the milk of the different breeds 

 stationed at Berry last winter — namely, in July, 1908 : — 



