A DAIRYING HANDICAP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 815, 12 May 1910, Page 8

A DAIRYING HANDICAP.

THE SHORT-LEASE- FAEMEB. Speaking at the annual, meeting of the Hawera A. and P. Association, the president, Mr. A. Hunter, said: The dairy industry was one thing that the society would have to keep an eye on in the future, it was the great stand-by of the*district, and the committee'would have to see ; . that the dairy, industry, was'' encouraged. "They "should' encourage'■ the improvement of methods in connection with the. industry in any .way they could. I'he special work would be partly to jncourago the breeding of a better class of stock.- -The matter: of-the ! testing of oows w.ould. no doubt lead to great improvement in raising 'the avtiage of the dairy herds, if it -became moro'gerieral. A great- difficulty ;in reference to this question was the short leases of' farms that was throughout the country. There", was not much encouragement to go in for the breeding, of'high class 6tock oa dairy farms which , ' >i'i>re oilly leased for '. short terms. Farmers would not bother ' getting valuable' animals- because of. the';uncertainty; as;to;:whether they would- remain on a plqc-o. or,-not;,. The eupply at the. Featherston", factory up to Mayvl -exceeded ftho- total supply for last year by'.20,900! gallons of milk, whilst, the output' topped" 400' tons" of cheese.'an amount nqt previously reached.. The daily supply, is just- on 2000 gallons, ■bein" ■ 800 gallons -in excess' of, last - year. It is expected thatabouti 40, tons of cheese more will be made'before the factory closes. :'This amount,-however, is dependent oh what demand tbero will.bo for milk for the Wellington'market, which is taken advantage of by suppliers when possible on account of the extra price accruing." The'cheese right through the season has graded high, an average of. 91 points "being obtained. , • At tho annual meeting of the Hawarden. branch-of the Farmers' Union, held on Saturday, a discussion took' place as to the. advisability of starting freezing works'.at Waipara on, co-operative principles.' As very little practical iuformatipn was available, it was decided that a committee should be set up to wait on the directors of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company to see whether that company would erect a small works at Waipara. Six yellow Globe mangolds shown at the Aangiora show ' by' Mr. J. - Gibbs Stanton, of Woodend, raised with maneold fertiliser, wished 2731b,