GENERAL NOTES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 26, 19 June 1939, Page 7

GENERAL NOTES

FIGURES LIKE VENUS

Principal G. H. Purvis, of Usk Agricultural told a meeting that if Welsh girls drank more milk they would Lave figures like Venus'. Welsh people, he said, drank on an average less than one third of a pint of milk a day, which is less than i'? drunk by the people of nearly every country in Europe. GIGANTIC PUMPKIN An outsize in pumpkins has been on view in Morrinsville last week. It weighs 1141b and was not the largest of a paddock of pumpkins grown ihyMr R. Charles, Kerone. The pumpfaw—not a specimen of the cattle variety .\>ut appears to be. a cross between an Iroajiark and the other. The flesh is about sln thick, so that the p,umpkjfi has great weight in proportion to ..jits bulk. It is about 2ft 6in long and 2ft high. , CONDEMNED PIGS Strong exception was taken a,t a meeting of the Whangarci branch of the Farmers' Union to a suggestion from the V'aikato Pig Council that the Government payment for condemned pigs be paid to pig councils. At present the Government pays about £20,000 a year to farmers, whose pigs ire condemned for certain diseases. It is claimed by the Waikato Pig Council that this sum should be made available to pig councils for instructional work. HERD OF ONLY ONE COW A first.ealf Friesian heifer, Ver. rnuyden Butterfly, owned bv Mr S. W. Furn.css, gave a'record yield o'i 25,6071b in last year's milking competition ■■ of the Yorkshire "'Milk recording Society. At the annual meet, ing Captain N. Thirak, who was elected president, said he imagined his position as head of the sccicty Avas unprecedented. He had kept onl3 r one cow and her calf in all the 28 years he had been farming, as his dairy herd consisted entirely :of goats. CHEESE BONUS IN CANADA Just before Easter a bill was introduced in the Canadian Parliament to provide a bonus of 2s cents per lb (approximately 9s 4d per cwt) on all cheese grading 92 score or more--reckoned to be between 30 and 50 per cent of the whole make. If this bill Avent through it would stimulate checse production at the cost "of better, possibly so much so that the United Kingdom market Avould not. be worried Avith Canadian butter, but cheese exports Avould be increased to such an extent that the resulting lower prices in England Avould more than offset the benefit to the Canadian producer of the 9s 4d per cwt bonus. "FOOT & MOUTH" IN GERMANY The damage done by the long-con-tinued epidemic of foot and mouth disease in Germany is estimated by Professor Musseneier, of Berlin at not les.s than £83,000,000. 'Musseneier is the leading German expert on the subject. He reports that. in spite of preventive measures. 'th< infection has been more widespread in Germany than at any time in th" past. Research during the last two years has however, improved Ukprospects of getting the disease ai - der control. Six hundred thou.-,'and ' cattle have iioav been immunised by tlie ncAA' vaccination process of thr Reims Institute, but the Institute cannot, at the mom-nit, produce th'vaccine in sufficient quantities to permit eradication of the disease. Ex tensions of manufacturing capacity are in progress.