GENERAL NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 614, 17 September 1909, Page 8

GENERAL NOTES.

; „ ' WEST COAST AND EAST. and abundance of the milk flow ' Is shown by, tho fact that the Klthara Dairy 35,2631b.'.0f butter, against'only 28,7831b.',in August of the splen- >" . did season of last year. .-• '- .. The . Government .egg-grading, store - at Auck-' fe;' v* land is putting .' through - about .5000 - dozen eggs i a week. s The Oturi Dairy Company (Waverley) will in fulura bo called - the Waverley Co-operative. >' Dairy Company.' . ' . ~: ■ ! •: Mells Butter and Lo'wgftrtLChtese Co-'opera-K'%-'-V.~"--V-iv, , '-tiye;-Dalryi-Compantes:oro - the latest, .to como iiito the front rank;with.arrangements for..pas-' V;' : : '.teurisin£ their skimmed millc and whoy*. Tho f: f. - !:'■>:Hells Companyvpasteurised : last season for -its - bnttor-making.':'The'pasteurisation of.skimmfjd s';; :K: milk will ba startod at their Mokoia factory, and, perhaps, afterwards taken up. at Wliaka- \ riiara. jV-.-I' • ' : - '-.liowgarth. Co-operative. Dairy,' Company-has v • '-: -voted an -honorarium of .£3o' to its .'chairman ... and bonuses of ~SS each to tho manager, and secretary. . <V ' .Tho milk supply at tho Greytown cheese', fac- ' tory on -Wednesday was -J62G gallons. This, is gallons more'than, the supply?on tho oor- ••*. responding day. : *of last., year—an increase -of \* - . over 25 per.cent. \-v - '. Ploughmen and general farm hands are said to-bo wanted ;in tho Foilding district. '.' Mangolds, it is said, will bo the principal root crop in the Lower Wairarapa Valley this ; season., ; The General Committee "of the Pahiatua- ' Akitio A. and P.. Sooiefy on. Tuesday filed the date ; for .the■ opening :show , for . February pV.;,'. next. i ,< Ilawera lias introduced a new- attraction in : '- ' the form oi a pig. fair. Tho fair, vras held On Tfc' Saturday, and large entries were-received.

/• ... /' ■; ! v' V ; ;;.. ■ -ti A /armor at MahoTo. Hawko's Bay, n was; fortunate enough. to got MO. per ,ccnk ■. of t , lambs (nearly /IS lambs':to -the ewe),' docketl g them last wook; .'anil, it -is. said,--dabbed- tho s "wounds with sheep dip. Ho found seventy 01. yhis befct lamhs dead next'morning.' n ,',';;Holstein cattle classes are to bo added attno \ 'next.show at Woodville. , ' . • 1 • j liast year :heifer - calves , in 'Taranald wereiworth 17s. 6d.now. tlioy are sellingat as high c .iis<i£2 105..' But pigs are'.realising £1 that-wore., t -not worth more than 6s. last . year. -■ o . ' AnEUh'sim dairy farmer who ..was .milking t , -fifty-five cows:• last jseason is reported to .have received milk/.cheques: to tbe -amount of t 3s.'- 6d., This averages about- .£ls 3s. 3d. per cow j -very exceptional/ but just possnblo in a sea-: Eoh like' the-last, vln addition to h o,¥' ' a bonus-to come' of from to 43j>, and he sold a lot of 'pigs.- '' - ' ,". .. I . The Pohiatna-Akitio .A. and; P. Association ( is to bo registered..' , v.: The 1 -Hahoth factory,', which has been maK•ing butter during the. olt'-seakm, commeiiccd making-oheese on Monday.. _Just double tho, quantity of-milk is bdiw pared with this time last-year;. has not yet disposed of its output, a .satisfactory price : is realised, they will conNMr. Paul TVillcox and Mr. Wright.(both of iltahotu) aro! having milking machines installed. :-. The'annual ■ horse parade hitler: the of the Egmont A. and I'. Association wilLbo hold at Hawera to-morrow. A .supplementary parade will 'be held at Elthanl. on the following Saturday. ■ ■ • A- gentleman prominent "in..dairying circles informed- an Eketahuna "Express"- . representa- ( tive that it was nnlikely that-many ; sales' of; dairy produco would, bo r ..mado this season,'-4s.. buyers = : had(teen.-hea-^Jir_ -hit last- f season. He.considered most oi;tl]o ; butter airu, , cheese-would go-Home 011 consignment. . ( •• -' ■-. ' - : '• 1