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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
J. G. ROWELL 
September 1, 1908 
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KRailow and @Qutfitter, 
JUST ARRIVED. 
The Latest Designs in 
Suitings, 
‘Coatings, 
‘Overcoatings, 
‘Trouserings, 
so Rundl 
splendid quality and color. Hand 
separators are in general use, the cream 
being sent to the factories for treatment. 
The percentage of butter-fat in the milk 
of cows grazing on the natural pastures is 
unusually high. 
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Suburban Dairying. 
A corespondent writes from Victoria 
as follows :— 
Within a radius of ten miles of Mel- 
bourne are situated some of the best- 
equipped dairy farms in the State. The 
metropolis depends upon a far wider area 
for its daily milk supply, but close into 
many of the suburbs many dairymen, 
who are their own distributors and are 
independent of big distributing com- 
panies, carry on the dairy industry in an 
advanced and systematic manner that 
would be considered by some of the 
country suppliers extravagant and un- 
profitable, The dairyman whois able to 
sell direct to the consumers, and is able 
to dispose of the assistance of the middle- 
man, undoubtedly makes higher profits 
on his milk than the supplier to the butter 
factory, and is, perhaps, able to spend 
more money on the construction of clean 
and airy milking-sheds, and to equip the 
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buildings with many improvements which” 
are not directly responsible for any sub- 
stantial profit. But at the same time he 
labors under other disadvantages, and it 
is doubtful, after making due allowance 
for the extra price obtained for his milk, 
whether the selling profits more than 
counterbalance the extra expenses in- 
volved in the working of a smaller farm. 
In the principal dairying districts of the 
State a striking advancement in dairy 
methods now is the improvement being 
made to the cowsheds and dairy buildings 
but the standard does not appear to have 
reached the level attained by the suburban 
distributors. 
Luceanzt RecomMENpDED. 
Abundance of green feed is grown in 
the majority of suburban dairies, in ad- 
dition to that conserved as silage. The 
area under crop, in proportion to the 
number of cows milked, would strike 
many as unnecessarily large, Even those 
who have fairly extensive grass runs take 
the precaution of a large acreage, 
for the grass is only depended upon to 
keep up the milk supply for a few months. 
In some instances chaff has to be bought, 
and where it is fed it is mixed with green 
stuff that has previously been chaffed, 
The experienee of many dairymen on the 
use of lucerne hay is interesting, and 
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their testimony should help to break 
down the prejudica against luzerae, or, if 
such does not exist, the effect of such 
opinion should be to encourage the cul- 
tivation of that fodder crop in Victoria. 
Twelve months ago, when describing a 
large Sydney dairy, where on the average 
more than 100 cows are milked, and where 
tests of different fodders have been 
systematically carried out and carefully 
recorded, [ gave the experience of Mr 
M‘Kenzie. of Bondi. The conclusions 
he came to, as do the analyses showing 
the nutritive values of the various hays 
demonstrated the superiority of Incerne 
over either wheat and oaten hay for milk- 
ing purposes. Several Melbourne dairy- 
men, forced by the scarcity of high prices 
charged for oaten hay, were obliged to 
purchase in Sydney, and tried lucerne 
for the first time. There was no difference 
of opinion regarding the feeding value— 
lucerne was favored every time : 
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You roll it and it is stronger, 
You mow it and it multiplies, 
You tread upon it and it sends u pricher — 
perfume. 
Was is it? It sounds like a riddle, 
but it is only the late Mr Ruskin’s des- 
cription of grass. 
