GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 979, 21 November 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Very dry weather lias been experienced in llarlborough, and' a Dominion repreeentativo hae been told .that.if rain noes, not fall soon there will be no crops and no feed on some stations. A farmer from Poverty Bay, when passing through Wellington last' week, said that from what he had heard from fruitgrowers-in his province, they were expecting losses this year, and probably heavy' at that. ■ During October the Wanganiii ' Dairy Company received from suppliers 3,257,336 lb. of milk and 50,8951b- of home separated cream. The payments to suppliers totalled .£5739 16s. Id. Milkers are ecarco in some parts, of Taranaki. Farmers offering .€1 10s. as a weekly wage are unable to get tho labour they want. '-.-,. For the month' of October' the'suppliers' of the Hawera dairy factory willreceive between them..£5447 for their tat-ter-fat,' which is at tho rate of lOd. per • d About 130,7451b.. of butter- at- were . iade At Mells factory 39,0411b. of but.Satwas given, for winch the pay-out will be JC1626. This also was at lOd. per lb The milk cheque for the Normanby. actory will total jHtffl for 4» o f butter-fat. - Suppliers were. paid at the Sate oE lOd.jjer lb. ''

- "Tho worst obstacle in-our war now is the labour problem (says an American farmer). That gets'worse and worse. Nearly every farmer needs mpro men. The younger negroes are not so good as the old ones were. We havo some good ones—the old faithful ones—worth their weight in gold, but wo are not raising.up many ne.w ones. The truth is, negro families "nowadays are very small indeed —many.with, no children at all." Denmark exports over worth of butter annually. Tho following compliment to the Danes and the Dutch is made in the editorial columns of the "Breeders' Gazette" (U.S.A.): "Tho superiority of European dairy • products. is the result of careful attention to the details of farm dairy management and sanitation. Our distributing methods are an improvement o.veV those of the old countries, but at the source of supply the farmers across the water have us beaten. This is the discovery made by F. W. Taylor, who spent some weeks the past summer investigating He production and distribution. of dairy products in Europe, so that he might offer useful information to tho Chicago milk commission. The Teutonic love of cleanliness and order is proverbial. The natural inclination of farmers in the freat dairy countries of Holland and lenmark to keep their premises and cattle clean!ls also encouraged by municipal and State regulations.. The pervadine spirit of loose management 01 dairy herds ia this country is responsible for a low quality of milk at the time it leaves the farm, with the inevitable result that subsequent deterioration is rapid." : ■