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THE RURAL WORLD.

. <>. NEW ZEALAND BUTTER. A "BEAR" MOVEMENT. A cable message from New Zealand, says a London correspondent, punlished in London this week, attributes the drop in price of New Zealand butter to the awakening of the British consumer to the fact that the butter is frozen the awakening being attributed to the recent booming of New Zealand butter in London. This is a very inadequate, explanation of the low prices (remarks the correspondent) obtained this season for New Zealand butter. There may be something in it, for British ignorance and British prejudice in regard to t'rozen produce are still amazingly widespread. But if so, it is only part of a larger factor in the reduction of price—namely, a "bear" movement against New Zealand butter in

London. The National Dairy Association of New Zealand, representing a large number of factories in thp Dominion, placed its butter this season in the hands of four firms for disposal, withdrawing its custom from oldestablished and influential firms which had been handling New Zealand butter for many years. By this action the association aroused the hostility of the firms which had been passed over, and as a consequence there has been a set made against New Zealand butter on the Home market. There seems little doubt that the complaints made some weeks ago about fishiness in New Zealand butter may be attributed to the bear movement against the article, for the complaints were very vague, and although various factories were mentioned particular shipments of butter were not indicated. Besides, each salesman who had heard of fishiness in New Zealand butter was careful to explain that it was not in the butter he was handling, but elsewhere. Possibly the appeal to British prejudice on the subject of the freezing of butter is connected with the hostility shown towards the New Zealand article this season. Another cause of the drop in prices is said to be that the four firms which got so much of the JNew Zealand trade soon had their hands full, and had to engage brokers to help them sell, the result being that in some cases the prices obtained were distinctly low in view of the high quality of the butter. The above statement in regard to the "bear" movement, owing to the opposition to the National Dairy Association's scheme, has already been commented on in the New Zealand press. The correspondent above quoted, however, makes a mistake in saying that the association had four agents; it has only one.

GRADING THE HERD

Cow-testing was touched upon at the lecture hy Mr Young, M.R.C.V.S., at Tarata the other day, and the question of breeding from grade cow 3 which have given satisfactory returns of butter-fat was discussed. The opinion was expressed by the lecturer, either during his address, or at the less forma! discussion which followed, that the average farmer of to-da,y had no time to experiment too much in breeding. He must make up his mind which breed be will depend on. Then, having selected the best cows in his herd, either by means of the Babcock tester cr by the more primitive but stil! satisfactory test of setting the milk for cream, he should use the finest bull procurable of the breed he has decided on, getting one which proved butter-fat qualities. After having this head of the herd for two seasons, he should be got rid of, and another procured of the some breed and of the same strain, if possible, taking care, of course, that there shall be no in-breeding. The process being repented with the heifers, the best being saved, the fanner will soon have a milking herd, not exactly purebred, but still of a pronounced type with good blood predominant. To breed from grade cattle, unless some such system is adopted, would be to court trouble and failure.

WHY CANADIAN FARMERS OR GANISED.

Canadian farmers are nut merely making their combined inufience felt on the Parliament at Ottawa, but as recent debates have shown, in the British House of Commons aiso. Interest attaches therefore to Mr George 1 Fisher Chapman's account, in the | "Canadian Magazine," of organisaj tion, education, and co-operation among the farmers of Western Canada. He says that in the province of Manitoba there are 200 local Grain j growers' Associations, in Saskatchej wan 350, 'in Alberta 200. Local ■ unions meet monthly or semi-monthly. An annual convention is held in each province, where from 600 to 600 delegates assemble. Farmers' parliaments meet this winter at Brandon, Regina and Calgary. Each central office of the provincial association supplies information. The Saskatchewan Association ha =3 inaugurated a life membership scheme at twelve dollars a year, and the funds are lent on farm mortgages to supply a permanent fund. An independent journal wa3 needed and the "Grain-growers' Guide" was started in June, 1908, and has succeeded. It is fchw only paper in Canada owned, controlled ancl edited hy farmers. Political combination has convinced the farmers of the value of economic cooperation. Unused land lies along the railroads by tens of miles, while beyond it farmers are working for a living. This land is purposely held out of use by "speculators. The unearned increment question is much discussed; a popular assertion being : "It would pay to have the land worked, whereas now it pays to keep it idle."

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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 364, 27 May 1911, Page 6

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THE RURAL WORLD. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 364, 27 May 1911, Page 6

THE RURAL WORLD. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 364, 27 May 1911, Page 6

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