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dairying and goin for agriculture. Iam quite willing to submit to inspection, and 
can say the same for other dairymen in my district, but I have reason to dread 
that Bill.’ As to the clauses for the destruction of diseased cattle, I think there 
should be one for compensation purposes. Dairymen are not veterinary 
surgeons, and they may have so-called diseased animals without knowing it. I 
therefore think the lines followed in the old country should be carried out here, 
where a certain proportion of compensation is allowed for animals destroyed 
under these Acts. While I cannot agree with Mr. Williamson that separated is 
better than skimmed milk, lam quitein accordance with his methods of raising the 
calves. I have tried both methods, and when I took the calves from the cows 
immediately they were dropped, my losses from scour amounted to 50 per cent. 
We have now adopted the other method and let the calf run with the cow for 
a week or 10 days. I then feed it with fresh milk and then with skimmed. 
We have had 100 calves this season, and our losses have only amounted to 2 
percent. Separated milk by itself is not sufficient, and you must add something 
to it, pollard being as good as anything that can be used. A good deal depends 
upon when the cows calve. If in the winter, you have to feed them longer 
‘than you otherwise would. If in early spring, you can get them off earlier. 
As for pigs, I can bear out what Mr. Booker says on the value of the Tamworths. 
Forty years ago, in the Midland counties of England, it was the favourite pig. 
Then the Berkshires came and took their place, but I understand now that the 
interest in the Tamworth is reviving. 
Mr. J. Parke (Tinana): | have been working with pigs for a good number: 
of years. In fact, I have been rearing and slaughtering them for about twenty- 
seven years, and I am not going to give them up yet. As for breeds, I do not 
distinguish by the snout, but by the coating of hair. One Berkshire is thin- 
haired and the other thick, and I believe in the latter. As for feeding, the 
greatest difficulty I find is in keeping my breeding pigs lean enough. My sows 
get too fat, and are rather liable to smother their young ones. I haye fenced in a 
paddock of about 9 acres for them, and supply them with plenty of water. 
Their chief food consists of separated milk and fruit that is unmarketable. In the 
pig patch I have planted a number of fruit trees—mangoes, guavas, and so forth 
—and let the pigs collect the fruit and feed themselves. To stop the pigs from 
ringbarking the trees, 1 have had a piece of hollow log placed round the bottom 
of the trunk of each of them. As already stated, my great difficulty has been 
in keeping the sows in low enough condition at time of pigging, and I am much 
indebted to Mr. Booker for the remarks he made about feeding sows, the only 
drawback being that in many localities it would be difficult to obtain molasses 
cheap enough. As for prices, I find no difficulty in disposing of my pigs. 
» What I can always get at Maryborough is 3d. per lb. for the dressed meat, and 
all the pigs I dispose of are dressed at my own place and brought to the 
factory. 
The Hon. J. V. Cuataway: The views of the farmers at this Conference 
must haye altered very much since last year if Mr. Rogers’s paper and the views 
therein find any sympathy, Last year there was a strong feeling that the 
inspection of dairies and cattle should be insisted upon, and to a much greater 
extreme than has been proposed in the Bill. One farmer, indeed, read a 
paper to show that the spread of cancer in Queensland was caused by 
the slaughter and use for human food of -cancerous cattle. I just wish 
to deal with one or two statements. It has been said that under the 
Diseases in Stock Act, animals that have ticks are diseased. I wish 
the gentleman would read the Bill. Animals suffering from tick fever are 
diseased ; animals covered with ticks are not. Lots of arguments are founded 
on statements that have no foundation in fact. Mr. Rogers said that 
tuberculosis was never traced to milk. I have in my hand the very last book on 
the subject, the Harben Lectures, delivered by Sir Richard Thorne in 1898, 
and herein it is stated that any person who takes tuberculous matter into his 
body as food takes the risk of incurring tuberculosis, and that the milk of cows 
with tuberculosis of the adder possesses an extraordinary virulence. This. 
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