GENERAL FARMING NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 652, 1 November 1909, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NOTES.

! sJlrs- Albert j'Heap, of Wellington, j has been appointed manager v of the Waikanao creamery vot the .'l'resh: Food and Ice Company. y . district of..Waikanao the,plan of dairy'farmer carting his own milk to the creamery" ja;, varied .;by> the <oihployment of a brake, which, collects the supplies for the Eresh , Food and* Ico Company's creamery. .: % 'A large? numbers: of carcasses ;6f ■ sheep that perished *in? tho- A'shb'urtori- County, : as': a - result ofithe .recent storm,'.aro being carted to the ■ Fairfield'- PieraingVWorks, where ;thsv Trill be. , manufacturedmto manure. On Monday .even-ing"-last' thora-toero-no fower than .1000 car--cassesr atjthe ,-works, ready to be, treated. The assistant dairy produce grader-at Patea, ■jtltfiAf C/ Eoss,: hafi been-transferred to 'Dun■edm to open a grading depot there. Hiaposition at Patea is to be filled by Mr. E. C. Wood, formerly 'managor of,/ Messrs.. D, Nathan/and Companyrs Whakartnga cheese factory. '• -f.'.f The fat cattle and draught -hirse: entries-for theManawatu Show this week;are the largest for-.years, arid,'iri the jumping, class-a record is established. In-the maiden, jumpers'- event .2thava..entQr.ed, the; steeplechase 3G, anil in tho. champion hunters 53. The well-known horso Pickpocket, who -annexed the hunters' competition at Carterton,;'will'?cbmpets. in '.the, steeplechase- In the ladies' competition 31 en-* tries have'been received.. ■■- ■- "■ ■" L small line of four-tooth halfbred wethers, shorn, was sold at the Ashburton yards on Tuesday at 12s. lid. per head.. ,-Tlie wool was . reported to, average Bs:i.per fltfece: •; iVI , :U ■ •_ ■ - , T/\IEBI f| MILK SUPPLY COMPANY. f • ~ ' , , ANNUAL JLCETTM?. t'. - (By. Tclc^raph—s_'rcs; Association.) - ,■■■■.-. ■..;£■ . Dunedin, October 29. :• At tho nHnual mooting .of the—Taien and Bujiply, Company',the directors reported'that, the''profit for -the year, including the balance from last, year, was <£7316 9s. Gd. They: recommended the,payment of a dividend,of 6 ..per cent., fond of allowances on thei butter 1 -' shipped to.Sohth Africa. . The .returns "for - the latter hand.' The .milk .ittfrchasefl' iihountiSd |to 99j197,7281b.','; containirig J 37id15,5681b.»ipf . gutter-fat. 1 / .The -. quantity';, of flitter ;;mafiufacWr'fed. land:, of cheese- 382 tons. V : . •

. .In moving.?the adoption of ;tho report and v thq chairman (Mr. Mahoney) refrjarked't:h at; tlici-r1 is 'had ''not 'boen' so :good jas3ha'd been". tfio previous "years.;!, The ;,hadi, been as: lafge as'-in-'formeryMrs', ; if llot larger,' andiif 'things had turned out as the directors had anticipated ,'a.V handsome' retufji' would > have resulted. In former years, there hadAeen a considerable shrinkage butter to supplr.Aretiuiwmeiits,. chiijfiWthosc" of' the •So.ti{h- v A|ncan , ''ttade, but :came' to use the .butter thus sto/ed ijn'co'ol chambers something raaccornitabfe'nad/; developed in it, 'and the batter # re&ch?ithe requirements for 'fiport; to .'South al'rica, aud what was sent, fohvard' di'd-,noti"stand up." //The idirector's had ■ left'no stone unturned to (lis'cover' the cause jof-j the-vtrouble, .vrhich l, had been ■ the first ex}perienoeSVb% JthbVconjpany.li .'" A new. i maker had been' Secured; anay.the company had 'been pasteurising all. cream - Vfith- the object of correcting any lindesirable flavour. . The report and were adopted., tand the .retiring-directors'/Messrs. Wra. Nicolson and J. Mahoney) re-elected. ' .

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