WOOL SALES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 3

WOOL SALES.

• Persons, interested in tho Wellington wool .Bales iiext weck;!iro,askcd to remember.that tho sales will take place, not at . the Town Hall, .but in the, Sydney Streot Schoolroom, as advertised. ■ ■ . ■ ■

CHEAPER BREAD.

CHEAPER POULTRY FEED. BIG WHEAT HARVESTS PREDICTED. .;i The', Victorian Government Statistician estimates'.the .Viotorian wheat harvest at double, that of last year, and the amount available for export at four times' that exported last year. This fact, taken in conjunction with •the' probable' big: surplus in New Zealand, should ;interest not only the wheat farmers, the millers, the bakers, and the bread .consumers, but tho. poultry, farmers also. Last season, and oven now, the high price of chioken -wheat 'discouraged' poultry - keeping, and,led to the destruction of a large proportion of. the country,'s flocks; ;Witn. cheaper .wheat.there-mil be : good; inducement to, increase tie flocks again,' and much of tho increase will dnnbtless .be! effected by : young, stock. Choapbr' eggs and ■ cheaper .spring, chickens ouglit to, follow.' • Cheaper bread ! later; on should also' _be a. feasible proposition. Here are. thV Victorian estimates:---'v! Estimated area Estimated Yield... '■■ . for grain Bushels. Total:: ■ - • - Acres; - per acre. . bushels; : 1908-9 ... 1,885,200 12.82 24,164;350 1907-B',- 1,817,121 . 6.65 12,100,780 The requirements of the State for food and seed for the coming year are estimated' atabout 8J million bushels.' This would leave 15,914,350 bushels available for : export, as against 3,850,780 bushels last year. Tho New: Zealand exportable'surplus.will possibly 'be nearly 2 million bushels.. : :v ;. ACOVERNMENT BUTTER FACTORY. : . The South Australian Government conducts' a butter factory'as'one means of educating producers to better- methods, and also to. secure.' them ; better returns. .This, has been'iri existence just,over t two years, and, judging by the increasing support accorded, • dairy farmers.; appreciate the- assistance,, afforded" thfemC -- !For;.''the. 'past - financial' year 775 suppliers: forwarded cream to the factory,: and-.the; aggregate receipts were 21,736 cans of 'cream. /Containiiig' 949,1761b., which produced- 499,9611b.'0f' butter,-.or, in other figures, 223 tons,3cwt. 3qr, 211b., These re-, cords 4 : show that it. took : one and nine-tenth, pounds of-:ci»aihVtnV"inin'ufactur&';llb\ : pf but-, ter, ; which:'is;'' considered a: fair:'average;'-to maintain .iri-separiting:' ''In ; settling for'the; cream; received, the department has' issued' 13,480 account sales, and the cheques paid' amouh't-'in: total^'to,. apprommately, .£20,000.'; The average price realised for all. grades of the .''butter;' oil', tho' local, '' inter-State, and: English"market's \Was'' ll^a.'per: lb. In, comparison; with, 'the, initial-; nine' months' ;work' the increase': for (this {year, is' marked, and is calculated'at about- 40 per cent. This year tho ' average price paid ;to. producers/ was 113'd.y'as ■: against; IOJd.-: f°r the previous: :peridd;;;'it, has .been decided .that of the - total', profit-parti shall be paid to the sup-, pliersip :the -shape of .'a -bonus, and. part be .field-sar. fundi; .To: make: the; pay-, ment\equitable, ; ;:,th.e ; :department has. decided, to ; pay .Va- ; percentage- on tho. net amounts :of-'cream. suppliersf.'account .tern"will',gi^o\the'greater return';.to the. inaii who-'has iueeffi careful 'andosupplied: the ; best' quality cream, and should . prove : an en-. ;couragement;forefficient'.work;in'the : . various, dairies.