DAIRYING IN WAVERLEY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 909, 31 August 1910, Page 10

DAIRYING IN WAVERLEY.

' . ;EIDES THEOUGH PINE LAND. .V. another Waverlej , . is . going to mako big in . .during the coining, -season. Some far- ■ mers-are giving up sheep altogether, who ••• . have." hitherto gone in'. for . sheep /, and: . ..' tattle.' .They .now intend, devoting'tbeir lands _to \tne. production jt There'is' a'flourishing cheese factory not: far from : the/railway station. • company is. aco-oi>3rntii>econcti'n. Many'of , the''suppliers '.'told--me (writes .our ' travelling correspondent) they . were! well ... ■ satisfied' with the results of last- season. 'Some are., increasing their herds, - while in no' case did I hear of ; any; who -intnd-' -' ed to milk less. , ' In-one,part of this country, though .it ' .('..'is' really nearer 'Waitbtani,' in Block- 9, an,entirely, new creamery is-to be erectinxonnection. with.one''of the' Abutter, factories. One. farmery Mr.'Coombe, told . 'me'he.'expected to. milk' 100 cows, and nearly,all the other settlers; including'a ■ /'Maori, -adjacent. were going, in ■; for milk•ing. ; A supplier of the'Waverley. Cheese .''., j ■ Factory,' : Mr.'.A..Howiei'said he intended .-milking 100;cows.,this season. - 1 ■Ther6-is ; .nb'.'doubt that the Waverley land -is" veiy.v suitable .. for dairying.lt. grows'an enormous.amount of grass',.Had' '. ■ what puts it at such' 'an advantage over -V ~' many other districts, is that the. soil is dry and warm.. It lies on sandstone for- ■ • mation, so. that the land' is;soon' dry after,: the heaviest rain.. One day I had.a- . chat iwith Mr. L. Bremer, the. well-known. | • sheep breeder,: To see .how.;that class,of land compared ' .with • heavy soils .of ; -Manawatu.'and '; Kangifikei, as.' regards :,;jmortality in sheep, particularly', hoggets,. I .asked Mr. Bremer how his ;sh'eep were ■ doing. He said he had every reason to be - satisfied,. aS ithe deaths -among ;his' hog- ' gets 'were tifflyil .3 '.per, cent. . His I ;?,sheep . are Liccolris. ' • "' * Mr. Bremer also, showed me a paddock which two of-liis-men were .rolling.. .. One portion-was iri'oats,v another'in', barley, and', "a ..third, (in! between) .was rye . : com.' 'He told ! -me' there ' was "'"no thing ' - comparable: .with .the latter, as. winter, and early spring feed, .'for being eaten " off,' ■ .and that, he was,so weir pleased with'the , experiment that he.intended'sowing much - , more largely in future. ■'. The well-kept gor'so fenccs- are a feature of tho farms about Waverley;,. In /my /wanderings. in'- and about .-.Wavcrley '-.J 6eldom.saw a gorse bush oiitJof place. • Tho farmers certainly. ,Flo keep, them" to the -fence lines. This,' is " 'all the more /. . ereditable: when'.one ,remembers other localities where gorse fences have been al-. ■ lowed :to ', spread ; .till- v ; they are a chain ' , :wide and sometimes" fiiore. , - ■ . , Th«" last time-1 was here a farmer told me they-were behind the times at Waverr ■ Icy, as the, land bobni had not rcacheii ... them: ' 'It-is under thrib years since.. . However, I now find they have "got it , ba_d," ; and.'the at-; which!, land ,is , being; sold, and' leased show that Waveriey is'quite up to. date now. , .