GENERAL FARMING NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2362, 19 January 1915, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS

For the four months ended December 31 the Kaitawa Cheese Company's payments to suppliers for milk:delivered totalled £1906 10s. Id. Last months' quota of-this amount was £618 3s. 3d. Payment was made at the rate of Is. per lb. of-butter-fat''(states'our 'Pahiatua correspondent). ' The settlers on the Mangatinoka Block who are supplying! milk to the cheese'factory erected in that district last, season, aro receiving payment for their supplies at the rate of Is. per lb. of butter-fat. v■/ ;. :; .'. : : :■; The; daily output of cheese at the .Tararua (Ballance) cheese factory last jWeek averaged. 19 export cheese a day. i The daily milk supply at the Mangatinoka Cheese Factory is "still about 300 gallons in'excess of /that delivered on the corresponding day of ia6t season. The intake on Monday was 248' gallons, from which 29 exports wen manufactured.- A consignment of 221 crates of cheese was railed';to 'Wellington, for Home-shipment this week. 'A further 100 crates will be forwardec towards the end of the month. " Th( teste for the last testing period endet January 16 ranged from 3.2 to 4.4. New Zealand nurserymen are.to hole their eighth annual conference at th< Chamber of Commerce on January 2< and 21. The president, Mr. W. S Johnston,' will be in the chair. Amons the matters of interest to the trade t< be brought before the conference an papers on "The Nursery Trade and It: Future Prospects'' and "The Prospect; of the Apple Trade," both, by Mr Thomas Horton, and "Prices of. Nurser Stock in Relation to the Cost of Pro duotion," by Mr. G. A. Green. Th members of the conference' and part; will bo taken trips round the loca nurseries and round the oity,.as guest of the Council of the Wellington Nnr serymen on Thursday afternoon and; Fri day morning. The Richmond Oil Engine is not sol on the sole evidence of an elaborate gili edged Catalogue. It appeals'to you b reason of its downright solidity—its sin plicity of working—ease of control, tc gethor with-the endorsement of hundred of users • throughout the New Zealam Write for details. A. J.Parton, Plumbai Carterton.—Advt.