36 THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
July 1, 1909 
Illustrates Nos. 0, 1 and 2. 
SOLE AGENTS FOR SOUTH AND WEST AUSTRALIA, 
AW W. DOBBIE & Co, SHXL RIOR 
The “YOMO” 
Cream 
SEPARATOR. 
23 CAPACITY 
MOST SKILFULLY BUILT. 
PERFECT SKIMMING 
MORE BUTTER 
o 1) {PER HOUR. CASH EXTENDED TERMS. 
Household A } 
-9 Gallons £3 10 O £4 0 0) 
11; it 4 0 0 410 0O| Deposit £1 
16 “ 415 0 515 OF and 10/ 
20 3 515 0 6 17 6 {Monthly Installments, 
28 _ 110% 0 810 0) 
45 1010 0 12 10 0 (£1 10/ dep., 10/ monthly 
£672 . 14 10 0 17 10 0} £2 dep., 10/ monthly 
The “Domo” is the Latest and Most Remarkable Develop- 
ment in Cream Separators ; is STRONG and DURABLE and 
Use the ‘‘ Domo” and Ensure 
BETTER CHURNING 
CHOICE CREAM. 
=  Altho’ at least as good as any Separator obtainable it 
COSTS ONLY ABOUT HALF THE USUAL PRICE. 
THE DAIRY. 
Profitable Dairying on Small 
Farms. 
J. S, McFadzean, Dairy Supervisor. 
Every dairy farmer should strive to ob- 
tain as much remuneration from his herd 
as his circumstances will permit. To 
materially increase the profits from his 
business without making a corresponding 
expansion in the cost of production should 
be his daily thought; for such an increas- 
ing of the returns cannot but be satis- 
factory. When, therefore, a dairy farmer 
is so located that he is within reasonable 
distance of a constant demand for fresh 
milk at a payable price, he should 
endeavor to get a due share of the trade 
available. Occasionally, cases may be 
met with where special circumstances 
preclude the possibility of making this 
line of business fit in with some other 
work on a farm; and in such instances the 
opportunity must be let pass. As a 
general thing, however, it must be con- 
ceded that, shoulda dairy farmer continue 
to separate his milk for cream-selling or 
butter-making, when he could as easily 
take part in the wholesale milk supply 
business, he is not taking full advantage 
of his opportunities. 
A gallon of standard milk is worth from» 
8d. to 44d., according to the season, if 
separated or sold onits butter-fat con- 
tent. But that same quantity of milk is 
worth from 64d. to 8d., and even much 
more,ina period of scarcity, if sold 
wholesale as fresh milk for household 
consumption. Of course, the cost of 
handling and marketing the latter is 
somewhat greater, and the principal 
features which tend to vary the cost of 
producing these two lines of dairy pro- 
duce may here be briefly commented 
on. The milk seller must cool his milk 
carefully and deliver it daily, whereas the 
cream or butter seller has only to get his 
produce to the railway station twice in 
each week. The former is also not able 
to improve his land as cheaply by 
manuring as is the man who utilizes his 
skim milk in the raising of pigs or 
calves. Allowing, however, for these 
disadvantages there still remain several 
factors, other than the difference in actual 
cash returns, which are almost sure to 
obtrude themselves speedily under the 
milk suppliers notice to his ultimate 
profit, More often than not the necessity 
for reaching the railway station with the 
milk at a fixed hour daily will introduce 
a regularity into the daily work of the 
farm which it would otherwise be difficult 
to obtain; and the result is beneficial in 
many ways. Special attention also must 
be given to improving the standard of the 
herd in the way of persistency and con- 
sistency of milking; for cows that will 
give a regular supply of milk over a long 
_ period are particularly valnable for this 
work, If the supply of milk is to be sus- 
tained with a regularity that will be 
satisfactory to both buyer and seller, it is 
further necessary that the cultivation 
methods of the farm be systematic; while 
the area cultivated must be sufficiently 
extensive to insure a supply of succulent 
fodder for the milkers throughout the 
whole year. With these items provided 
for, the wholesale milk supply business 
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