Tlie Farm-Prize Competition., 1884. 
523 
The foregoing are remarkable figures, indicating results pro- 
bably almost unique in the experience of cheese-makers. The 
yield of 1882 was at the rate of 4 cwt. 2 qrs. 22 lbs. per cow. 
The actual weight of cheese in 1883 was 26,074 lbs., which gives 
an average per cow of 4 cwt. 3 qrs. 22 lbs. No registry of milk 
is kept, but the cheese averages as many gallons of milk, inas- 
much as a gallon of such milk will undoubtedly make a 
pound of cheese. Comparing the return of 1883 with that 
of a milk-selling farm, we must deduct from the total the sum 
which would be received for calves sold at birth, assumed 
to be 100/., and we have 109 IZ. 19s. 4t/. as the amount realised 
for Mr. Nunnerley's milk, which works out a fraction over 
10c?. a gallon.* 
In connection with the dairy, and as evidence that the value 
of the whey has not been exaggerated, I append the pig account 
for 1883. A capital sort of white middle-breed pigs is kept. 
At the visit in January we found six sows and produce, and 
five bought pigs. 
£ s. d. 
Amount received for pigs sold . . . . 370 14 6 
Do. do. extra in stock . . . . 6 6 0 
377 0 6 
Less cost of pigs bought 80 6 0 
296 14 6 
Corn and meal consumed £118 IG 0 
Whey at 50s. a cow . . 117 10 0 
236 0 0 
Balance profit . . . . . . £60 8 6 
* As II means of testing the accuracy of the figures supplied by Mr. Nunnerley, 
he has, at the request of the Judges, weighed the millj yielded on a given day, 
June 12, 1884, and the cheese produced from it on June 26, 14 days after 
manufacture. 
Total weight of milk from 49 cows and heifers 1785 lbs. 
Quantity of cream removed for butter .. .. 19J „ 
for cheese-making .. 1765 „ 
This measured 173 gallons. 
Two cheeses weighed on June 26 ,. .. 171 lbs. 
Butter from cream off milk % „ 
whey 4| „ 
Total 14 „ 2 lbs. of butter 
" [per cow per week. 
The average yield of milk per cow equals Hj quarts. 
The auimals comprised 31 adult cows, seven 3-yeai--old and eleven 2-year-old 
heifers. 
Tliis test was applied after a long drought, and when the pastures were 
becoming very bare. 
