19 JULY 1930, Page 15

Doubtless the use of the tops for food needs attention

to detail. In a recent experience where excess of this ration was given to some Friesian cows the animals flourished ex- ceedingly and their supply of milk was large ; but it proved to be of such thinness that some island cattle bad to be bought hurriedly to bring the milk up to quality. Friesians can give (as many have proved, especially in America) milk more than sufficiently rich in butter-fat. They are not, as their enemies at one time rudely said, "excellent machines for colouring water " ; but perhaps food has to be more carefully regulated for stock that yields such enormous quantities of milk—up to 8 gallons a day for a twelvemonth !