PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 611, 14 September 1909, Page 8

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

GROWTH OF DAIRYING. (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Palmerston North, September 13. Mr. W. May Nelson 'will-judgo the pig classes-at the forthcoming. A. and P. spring show. ' j t» • Mr. J. C. Lane, secretory of tho A. and P. Association, is at present distributing to those farmers who are to make seed and grazing experiments under tho supervision of the Agricultural Department, pamphlets dealing withtho experiments to bo .conducted, and direc* tions as to procedure. ' Tho information is • supplied by Mr. Bayliss, supervisor of experiments, ana is full in every-detail. Mr. J. 0. •Batcbelor has consented to make pasture and ensilage experiments at his farm at: Fitzher- . berfc. . • : ■ /. . The Wahganui Education Board has inti« mated to Mr. "Wagstaif, ; chairman of .tho. Pohangina School Committee, that instructions had been given for tlio preparation of estimates for the technical building, N but, as.no provision bad been made for lining as required, it would be impossible to invito tenders for the. work till .after the next meeting .of tho board during J -Tho New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union paid out for butter-fat a. total of X 574 ss. sd. in July, and in August £718 7s. lid. During /those two months nearly all tho creameries were closed, but they are now . working daily, and the supply of milk has greatly increased. Several largo holders of land in the district ! who last, year were.carrying'sheep exclusively havs gbne in for * dairy ing this' season, these ineluding several in the'.Tiritea district, where the largo quantity of milk offering has led-to negotiations taking place ; -between. { the union and its suppliers for . the reopening of the Tiritea Creamery, which has been .'closed for some time- During tho past week.or,eo the New Zealand Farmers! Dairy Union has installed at its factory in Fitzherbert Street, and also at theAwapuni Creamery, pasteurising' plants- for dealing with the-skimmed mils before it is returned, to suppliers. This is perhaps the most important, addition, .from a iiealth point of view, that the union has ever made to its plant, and is-the firststep, towardsi the lessening (if not extinction)) of tuberculosis . in dairy, stock. Suppliers' to ■ tho factory and creamery 'are - greatly pleased at. the steps taken to safeguard their* growing. dairy, stock • from contagion, and it is* a pity vthdt. pasteurisers aro.not more generally used'by dairy corn-, panies.'v .-v • V .* :■ The. new technical- school; is rapidly .approaching completion/Inspection-made tp-day, showed, that tho .whole of. the*upstairs portion,;is al;. most finished,' and all that remains to-be done is placing certain'.fixtures in position. The} three' art tporas are splendidly, lit, and afford every convenience. Tney will come : as; a wel-. come relief to the very inconvenient and un-, . satisfactory; state of - affairs.-that has existed at the High' School up till now. . This depjtftment' of the' work' has . been growing : rapidly recently, under the care of Mr; G.,S. Ehott, : A.M., and, in its new :home, will undoubtedly ( oontinuo to.grow;, Mr..F..D. Opie, direator of the technical school, is visiting Wellington today in. connection with the fixtures for. the new school, and it is. expected: tliat . arrangements will be weirforward for the - opening on September 29.' ' ' • . • r Mr. M'Call, who has been first assistant; at the; \Vhakaronga Dairy-Factory, has been appointed manager of the Waitbhi Factory; Marloorough, in. succession to Mr,-. W.' Harkness, who has secured the management, of the Taratahi Factory, following. Mr. A. MTCenzie, who has taken chargo.of the! big Joll cheesemaking concern in Taranaki.. • » •