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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 6 (October 1, 1928)

Supplementary Feed

Supplementary Feed.

Are the dairy and sheep industries, however, really operated on lawn grass alone without any supplementary feeds except the grass silage and hay cut expressly to maintain the farm in a lawn condition? Not entirely so. In the Taranaki district I mistook the first turnip field I saw for boulders, so gigantic were these roots, all being eight to twelve inches in diameter. New Zealand grows about 450,000 acres of turnips, and they must contribute substantially to the production of Canterbury lamb and Fernleaf butter and cheese, the three products of which every New Zealander is proud…

More than 50 per cent. of the dairy cows in the Dominion are milked by machines. With 17,000 milking plants in operation, about 60,000 cows may be milked simultaneously. In other words, it requires only about an hour and a half night and morning to milk New Zealand's 800,000 cows…