GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 1 May 1914, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

In a circular forwarded by the directorate of the Waikato Co-operative Dairy Co. to the suppliers it is said, inter alia: "We aro pleased to report that ■ Mr. W. Goodfellow, during his Pacific Coast trip, was successful in making arrangements for the placing of our butler direct with the big buyers of United States and Canada. Owing to the preservative restrictions wo have not exported one single box to the United States to date, but ive fully realise that Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco' will bo large buyers during tlio months of October, November, December, and January each season. New Zealand and its produce have an excellent reputation in Canada. In fact, there' is practically no other butter sold in Vancouver at the present time. The local article from Eastern Canada is of inferior quality, and is now almost off the market. The expansion of the butter trade in future will come from the enormous hack country east of Vancouver and Seattle. Wq may, therefore, expect to see our exports to "the Pacific Coalt grow steadily for some years. Low- cost of production will enable Australasia at all times' to easily compete with the American farmers." There has-been a tremendous output of young bullocks from Taranaki this season, probably, the greatest on record, says an exchange. Buyers are present in the district in numbers securing two and a half-year-old steers and paying good prices for them. Over 1000 went away in two mobs. They aro behif spnt away to Wanganui, Napier, and Uisborne. There is a great.supply of grass in Gisborne this season, and landholders must have stock to eat it.