DAIRY NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 405, 18 October 1911, Page 3

DAIRY NOTES.

The Marakopa Dairy Factory Company, Ltd., started operations on Monday in their new factory. Supplies were forthcoming from Kitiohaku, TeAnga and the surrounding dis r rict. The company have a waggon collecting the cream in the Kinohaku district. Cream from about 300 cows was received. With regard to the supply from the Ratanui district a Chronicle reporter was informed the other day by two or three Ratanui settlers that they could not see their way to supply the factory owing to the difficulties of packing the cream. The Pio Pio Dairy Factory Company, Ltd., have also started operations and up to the present has been very satisfactory despite the fact that the weather has been so exceptionally dry, fair supplies are coming to hand. Nest month it is anticipated that there will be a considerable increase in the supply.

Under a new title of a co-oerative dairy company the farmer-! of Aria have had their factory running for the past few weeks. The Aria factory has been in existence for the past four or five years and up to this year has been conducted as a prorietary concern. The new order of things promises more general satisfaction all round, athough the industry in that district was due to Mr E. Townshenri, who has been the owner of the factory until the beginning of the year. As the result of the co-operation brought, more farmers have been induced to become suppliers with the result that a considerable increase in output will take place this season. A number of farmers have installed milking machines and erected up-to-date milking sheds. Judging by the interest and enthusiasm shown by Aria farmers there is every prospect of an excellent future for the industry in that district.

In the Ohnra district both the Matiere and jSJiho Niho factories are in full swing. It is also expected in that district that there will be a considerable increase in the output for the season. Up-to-date methods are being adopted all round, a fact which means earnestness and steadfastness of purpose in bringing the industry to a success.

In the Ot.orohanga district a similar experience is being had as regards an increase of supply. The creamery has been very busy during the past few weeks and the prospects for the_ year according to the manager are bright. The building of theTe Kuiti factory is proceeding very satisfactorily, and it is expected that it will bs completed up to contract time. It is confidently anticipated by all those interested in dairying in the King Country that a big increase in the output of butter will take place. In the Ohura district farmers engaged in the industry are look ins? forward to an increase of practically oO per cent. In that district farmers are very confident as to what ' the result will eventually be, for a number have erected up-to-date milking sheds, and have instated machinery. In the Aria and Pio Pio districts similar activity has been prevailing for some time. On the whole the outlook for the season is good.

With regard to the dairying industry in the King Country and farming generally grave fears have been indulged in by farmers owing to the exceptionally dry winter; which was experienced to be followed by an abnormally dry spring However, those fears have been relieved. On Thursday last rain commenced to fail in showers which have continued intermittently up till the present, with the result that until 9 a.m. on Monday, 1.53 inches have fallen during that time making a total of 2.04 since the beginning of the month. The rainfall for the corresponding period of last year was 4 inches with a total of 5.7S for the month, so that if we are to have a corresonding rain for this month we are likely to have some rough weather before the time is up. Despite the fact that such may be the case the rain is welcome, and will do a, power of good. Feed "will come away and the supply of grass in the near future should be abundant.