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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 764, 14 August 1894, Page 5

What can be done with a farm of 47 acres and 19 cows, situated near to a Dairy Factory, is shown by a corespondence going on iu the Taranaki Herald. The farmer from September to May (nine months) sold to the factory 9261 gallons of milk which brought him £ll7 17s, 9d 15 calves he sold for £2l, 4 heifers £9 ; 8 pigs, £l6; 12 tons of potatoes, £36 ; total receipts, £199 17s 9d. He paid rales £2 12s 6d ; for ploughing, £2 5s ; for seed potatoes, £2 17s; and for grazing fees, £2 ; total expenditure, £9 12s 64. Net returnti, £l9O 5s 3d. These figures should afford food for thought for our settlers, and are decidedly in favor of a dairy factory. One for Hee Hem ! —Mr Crowther, one of the Auckland Members, who is a cab proprietor on a large scale, is a brusque speaking man, and on meeting Mr E. M. Smith for the first time in the lobby of the House shook bauds with the latter, greeting him with the expression of * How do you do Ironsaud ?’ Mr Smith said he was verywell, and the matter dropped. The next day, when the two met, Mr Crowther greeted the member for New Plymouth with * How are vou getting on, Ironsand ?’ to which Mr Smith replied, ‘ First rate, Cabby, bow are you getting on ?’