GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 640, 18 October 1909, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

• The-average moisture' in Danish butter is, 14 ■per"centV New-VBouth Wales -13.5, Victorian 1216, New Zealand 11.7. Tho'recent, decision of the ■Victorian Government to fix U per. cent.--as .the-.maximum. percentaße of moisture in-"superfine"-'butter will not bo put into oporation .till-next and may -thon appar-. ently be .'reconsidered; ■ As -was pointed- out. ■in Thi Dominion sqnie time,-agoi';to mnke the grading dependant on''moisture content" wouldmake it necessary for tho '-'gardonsi to have evtvy chnrhin? analysed.. Apparently' yictoria" is prepared to go to, this expense-,'- in' .order to' secure a'good name on the'-'butter'market. ■ 1 •:■ Inihiries-haTe been made (says'lh'o'AYanganui "Chrohiclo") as to reason why Eomo freeling companies made lossee on lost , 'season's working, vrliilo others made 'α-profib The explanation is that some freezing companies have purchased farmers , and sold, on the. Home' 'markets," thereby making a: heavy loss, on.tho-meat. Others have tniatetf the,stock on owhpvs' account arid consequently the farmers' have made the loss, while the companies'(off--ing'to extra lnrge. numbers' dealt' with) have made:good profits. ■;,!' ■;".... .. ■;' Mr. 'Cuddie' announces that experiments ore to be conducted in-'conhection-witH-the manufacture '.. of ■ whey, butter—to ■.see-whether, or not it 'would.be feasible to riin .whey from cheeso I ,vats', through -: cream .-'separators and. make butter from the result. ' ' ,' The Tututawa Dairy Factory- has".reopened.. ' Messrs. Bayly Bros., of Tututawa, have just completed -certain vnltorations :t'o' thoir shear: iiig. shed,:'made necessary' by .the; inh-oduc-:of ..'shearing machines. * ■'/'■••'■ ■ .Tho..Waitara Froczing 'Works, will probably be.;reopencd on November iO.:' ; ' : ; .'.-

j> A distance-driving contest -between New .Plymouth and Waitara, which it was intended to nn'iinge in connexion with, the .Taranaki Show,-, has.:;boen, deferred'-,'till., next :year.'■:'"!;'.'. ':':■■. '.■' ' '■ In .the .early, days of a dairy. company (says tho "Opnnake I'inies") any' one ■ who ■ finds mpnorfi.,to',.:help.. , .it'.aloii^ , v .js'.'a" JpubH&spirited.and' g_onorpus'uifuj,-:but company; -.Jj'Sginj^tb'rfeolVitSv.logs '.tliis .-public-spirited : generous, man'develops into a social-pest, .whom; tho'suppliers consider , it meritorious;to starve. out. We do not think it as , fronj- any wish'" "to.be dishonest that,this changivof front'takes: place, bufr'it is - roin a. wartt. of;.thought;:' but the effect.is tlio-.same on the.'.unfortunate. , .dry. shareholder.'':'iWe; tjuite:.:adii}it ■ that .the' ,ni»n .whu milks the" coitf. is'entitled to. receive i all'that his cows will produce," but so long as he needs the' use of a pound from \ either -tho bank or a dry shareholder, he sh'qUld not cavil at paying intorest'.on it. When.he is in .'a ;phsHi.o£'; : vtb:.'dp-without the* aid-r of outside' capita!: l fa* shonld pay off his' indebtedness' to the bahk.arid'in'like manner; payback in full, irhat"'ho borrowed" from Wβ'. .too., '■ .■"'...'■'.■■■■ •■] ■.■.■'■■■:• - : ■•[■,'/:'.. ■ ■ >~"■''