Milk requires water
Successful dairy farmers know that it pays to provide plenty of good, clean, cool water for milch cows. Eighty-seven percent of milk is water. Large amounts of water are necessary for the production of the milk itself, and for the assimilation of the large quantities of food required in direct proportion to the amount of milk produced. In the summer a cow will want an amount of water equal to about three times the amount of milk produced. In one case a cow giving 27pounds of milk drank 77lb of water daily.
The same cow drank but 15lb daily when giving no milk. The amount of water required depends, of course, on the amount of milk the cow is producing, the kind of feed she is receiving, and the weather.
Studholme expo fundraiser
The labours of the Home Science students during the recent summer vacation to establish a fund for extending the work of the School of Home Science have been attended with very substantial success. Studholme House, the hostel of the Home Science Faculty, was leased by the University Council to the Home Science alumnae, who conducted it as a hostel for the use of Exhibition visitors. The students freely gave their services for several months in waiting on the visitors, and by this means a sum of £1060 was raised. The University Council is being asked to hold this in trust for some expansion scheme to be suggested later by the Home Science alumnae.
New cable eases consternation
Owing to the frequent stoppages which have occurred of late on the Mornington cable car line, the minds of those who depend on this service for their daily trips to and from the city have been for the past few months in a state of considerable unrest. It will doubtless come as a relief to knew that on Tuesday last there was landed from the Mahia, direct from England, a new cable, which is to be kept on hand for installation when necessary.
Expo to swell electorates?
In regard to a point raised that visitors at Dunedin will unduly raise the population of the South Island, and affect representation of the Country districts and also the number of representatives the North Island is entitled to when the electoral districts are automatically revised, the Government Statistician does not hold out any hope this can be remedied. In the Empire, except Canada, the population is always counted on the district in which people are located when the census is taken. Some
other countries have a system by which those temporarily present are excluded and temporary absentees included, but it is difficult and not entirely accurate.
Latest lorry load law
Amended regulations dealing with motor lorries have been gazetted. The new provisions came into operation on April 1.
It is provided that no person shall operate any six-wheeled motor lorry if the weight of its load exceeds nine tons, or if the combined weight of the vehicle and load exceeds 15 tons.
Pukehiwitahi cairn disappears
It is a matter of history that the late Sir John McKenzie was largely responsible for the inception of the land for settlement policy that enabled so many people in North Otago to become prosperous farmers. Travellers by train from Dunedin to Oamaru have remarked of late upon the fact that the cairn that was erected to the late Sir John McKenzie on a high peak near Palmerson is no longer to be seen. The question is being asked when, if ever, steps are to be taken to have the cairn restored.
— ODT, 9.4.1926
