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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 19

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N^ws oi Interest To H.B* Farmers BRITISH BAC0N TRADE Britain 's 500 bacon factories are idopting new standards of hvgiene. tligh-powered hoses daily .wash down ilaughter-house and factory -with hoh vater. Walls and ceiling are sprayed watli disinfeetant. ,Ali workens seruo their hands and arm-s before. beginring and after leavmg 'Otf work. a paniphlet issaed by the Bacon Deveiopinent Board explains it is not just a question of cleanliness. It is a matter of deuling correctly with baeteria; and bacreria have to be handled tkoughtf ully i.f fiavour is to be preserved. These mticroorganisms must be allowed- to do their work; but they cannot be allowed to work too hard. Too short or too long lived bacteria spoil the bacon 's fla vour. Backward Crops. Hue mainly to the very wet eum mer, the crops in most districts in Ca;a terbury are backward, and tliis is roflected in the poor support given r.?> the classes in the aunual field roofs competitron, states the report presented to the anniual meeting of the Northern (Rangiora) Agncuitural aiio Pastoral Associatiou. The report also points out that, im a time wnen every endeavour is oeing made to mtereet tne community m'txert prantmg, oniy two entrxes were' roceivea ior tne nest-piauted larm compeutton, which had. been abahdOned inconsequence. Feed Shortagts. (Jonsequent on the unfavourable »chson in iSouth Utago and boiuthlanu, turnip ci'ops nave been seriously axfected. There nas oeen an cxcessivw amount oi moisture and roota rn most mstanees are very small. A good many larmers, as a result will be snort of winter feed, and they will have to supplement what turnip crops they may have by feeding their sheep, espeeially hoggets, on oaten sheaves. This wiii entafll a good deal of extra work on rarmers, who are agreed that districts south of Dunedin have experienced tho worst season in liviug inemorya Belgian Horseg Xiast year Britain imported from Beigium 3211 horses valued at £120,396, and from Holland 507 holmes valued at £23,603. No duty was paid on tnese lmports. A 5 poi' cent, import duty on the horses would have brought in more than £7000, and on many classes of imports there is a 10 per cent. dutv Intelligent Pigs. Were an estimate of tho reiative mtelligence of farm animals to oe made the pag would come fairly high up the list and the horse would also be promment. Sheep on tho other haud seem to be reckless creatures possessea of little seuse and desperately hard to eaucate. mcrease In Profits, AVhile a few years ago only a lew progressive farmers kept pigs, to-day the order is reversed for there are few farmers who cannot be bothered with pigs. Pigs have meant a substantial mcrease in the dairy farjner's mcome and the record numbers traded this year, together with the high prices that have ruled throughout the season, have meant an addition of many thousands of pounds to the district's dairying income. Although prices for butter-fat are still considerably below those received during the boom period, the deficiency to-day is being to an extent made up by the extra profite obtained from pigs. Mastitis CuroWhat is claimed to bo a cure for mastitis has been diseovered by Mr. L. Pitt Kobshaw, a Bracknell farmer. This dreneh has been used experimentally in England and met with sueh success that it has attracted the attention of the Express Dairy Co., who are now prepaning and bottling it for sale commercially. Mr. Rooshaw has just returned from a short trip to the United States, where he has been dernonstrating his discovery. Ten infeeted cows at Conneetieut State Farm were treated for 90 hours, and the bacterial counts of milk reduced from three million to ten thousand,