HAWERA DAIRY COMPANY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1531, 29 August 1912, Page 8

HAWERA DAIRY COMPANY.

ANNUAL REPORT, The report to bo presented at the annual meeting of the Hawera Co-operative Dairy Company on September 7 states, inter alia, that out of tho balance in hand the directors recommend paving out. Id. from March 1 to June 30, nbsorbirig ,£1023 4?.; 2Jd. from September 15 to June 30, absorbing £n,SU-Hs. id.; and interest at 6 per cent, 7s. 3d., carrying forward a balance of .£9i Us. 2d. Tho following table of statistics is appended to the report:—Pounds of milk received, 27,844,918; Ibp. of butter-fat, 1,057,093; average test, 3.7!) per cent. Used for chcesemaking: Lbs. of milk, 26,615,241; lbs. butter-fat, 1.010,154; lbs. of chceso from lib. butter-fat, 2.68; lbs. of cheese made, .2,716,853; lbs. milk to lb. cheese, 9.8; average test, 3.79; cost per lb. f .o.k, 0.706. Used for butter-making: Lbs. milk, 1,199,677; lbs. butter-fat, 46,939; lbs. butter made, 55.345; over-run, 17.90; lbs. of milk to lib. butter, 21.67; averase test, 3.91. ■ " DRAINING BY EXPLOSIVES. THE WEREROA EXPERIMENTS. '" Tho explosive used in tho recent draining by explosives experiments carried out nt the Wereroa State Farm, and already described in this column was eruptito, wijch is manufactured by a. local chemist, and has been taken over by a New Zealand Company. The recent trials were carried out by Colonel Loveday, secretary of the company, and under the direction of the manager of the farm, Mr. J. Drysdale. A plot of wet land three acres in extent was dealt with, and the results appear to have been very satisfactory as far as can bo gathered. Tho process of draining is simple. Firstly, a hole is bored with an auger to a depth of about five and a half feet. Tho cartridge attached to tho fuse with detonator is then lowered, and tamping is done. When tamping is finished, cither by water or otherwise, the fuse is. lit, , and the eruptito explodes. A charge of Coz. was put down each hole on the plot experimented upon, and an area, of about sft. Gin. by 6ft. Gin. deep was nicely broken into porous land, through which tho water percolated. Tho explosive can bo used in cither water or on tho land, and to show its use in the former direction. Colonel Loveday planted an Boz. charge in a pond on the estate, nnd caused tho charge to bo exploded. Shortly niter the fuse had acted, the waters began to disappear, percolating through tho broken-up soil. A great advantage about eruptite, Mr. Drysdalc explained, is the fact that, there is no danger attached to it. It is perfectly safe to ),o carried about, or stored in one's own private rooms. It will l>o interesting to learn how the cost of draining by this explosive works out on a given area, | ;