FARM AND DAIRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2172, 4 September 1920, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

Notwithstanding the high price the American farmer is getting for Ills wheat, there is great dissatisfaction in that country among the rural community. The complaint is that there is a vast difference in the (mice paid hy the consumer and that paid to the producer. They have middlemen in that country, too. who make more money out of the wheat than the farmer, who does all the hard work and takes all the risk of cultivating the cereal. One of the objects of Mr Sidney Kidman’s recent visit to America was to buy a ranch, and go in for cattle raising in a big way there; but he lias changed his mind. According to the Empire Mail, lie has, after seeing the land and the conditions, decided to stick to Australia. The cattle in America, lie stales, cannot fatten as quickly as in Australia, where the animals are in the open all the year round, and where it is not necessary to grow turnips for the slock; the grazing is sufficient, which means cheapness. Tin* Japanese have added preserved milk to their many new incius tries; so far they produce little more limit enough for their own consumption, and what there is availaide for export is sent to China and the South Seas. The estimate is that during the coming year the production will considerably increase: so wo shall have rivals in that pro-

(luce as well as others in the Paeilie. The next-lew years, however, should see the turning- out of a much greater hulk of milk products here.

Months ago we were told that the United Stales were full up with wheat, and there would be no further demand from there for some time. It was at that time suggested that there was nothing alarming in the report, if true, because America was supposed to be passing on her grain. This theory is supported by a report from a Canadian milling journal, which says that Canada has been sending wheat into the States at the rate of 100,000 bushels per day.