GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1929, 11 December 1913, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

On Monday next the Ballance Dairy Company..will pay out £8137 Tor milk supplied during November. This constitutes a record for any monthly pay- : merit made by tho company. .The amount of butter manufactured during the month exceeded that made in November, 1912, by 14 tens. Last week the company dispatched a second shipment of '1(J tons of butter by the s.s. Aoraugi.

■ Although there has been little harvest .weather as.yet in tho Timaru district, cereal,crops in some localities aro fast coming to'-maturity. In tho Kiugsdown district, where somo very tine crops of hay havo been cut, one or two fields of oats appear to be almost ready for tho reaper.

Tho directors of tho Levin Co-opora-tivo Dairy Company, Ltd., are paying 11 Jd. for November butter-fat.- Thoy consider that until tho hutter which is aiow on tho way to London is sold they aro not justified in paying out more. None of their butter, owing to the-'un-fortunate, striko trouble, can reach-tho English market before Christmas, and it is not'improbable that tho present high prices may not be maintained. If, however, prices do not-drop from their present high level, it will bo possible to increase- tho amount payablo for butterfat on later payments. A Manakau farmer is fattening ono -thousand wethers and has been offered nineteen shillings each for them as fats in his yards. Tho work of laying the foundations of the new buildings at the Edendalo dairy factory for the sugar oT milk plant has ' been hampered slightly through' a shortage of cement. Fresh supplies have now como to hand, and in the. course of a day or two tho framework will be erected. "I'm so. perplexed," eaid oue. farmer to another. "This hot weather I don't know how to get my milk thoroughly cooled before sondiug it to tho factory.' "Well," said tho other, "tliero is only one efficient way and that is by using Parton. Coolers. They cool tho milk 'whatever tho temperature, and you get a high milk test.' "That's how you solve-tho problem, is it? I'll get on to sec Parton right away. Thanks for the sound advice." Every farmer should use Parton's Milk Coolers.- Albert J. Parton, Plumber, Carterton—Advt. Develop tho milking propensity and high butter-fat test by usim; tho "Gilruth" Calf Pood. The constitutionbuilder. It is not only the best, but also tho cheapest.—Advt.