FARM NOTES.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 8 May 1920, Page 4

FARM NOTES.

The price of imported butter in England has been raised from 2s Sd per lb to 3s.

British and Irish made cheese, cream, margarine, oils and fats, and condensed milk have been freed from control.

The Masterton Dairy Company has been advised that it has been awarded first prize at the Sydney; Royal Show for butter for export.

AFflie Sydney show sales a couple of Friesiau heifers, on behalf of the Cluny Friesiau Farm Company, brought 115 and IUO guineas respectively.

The Commodities Commission has granted an increase of 4s Gd per case in the price of condensed milk. Tliia means that a tin. will cost la l*d.

The record price of 5300 guineas has bean paid by Mr W. Gazalet, of Kent, to Mr William Duthie Collynio (Aberdeenshire) for a tcn-nionths-old Shorthorn bull call'.

Mr Sydney Jacobs, who has been associated wilh Messrs Joseph Nathan

and Co., Lid., for the past twenty years, has been appointed to the position of local director of the company.

Mr William Walker, a market gardener, of Bulwell, near Nottingham, possesses a sow which has given birth to 27 youngsters in one litter. This is believed to be a record. The proud mother's first litter totalled 15.

Forty-three Shoi'thorns, sold by various breeders, at Chicago, on 4th De■ember, 'mole the magnificent siveraga .f over - L ; 17 7 per head. The top price ens £131.111. paid for a roan thrce-ycar- ,|.| cow with he.for i-silf ill toot.

. o -iea! ',- th" increase in the milk ~p,,|v ihiougho.il illawnrra that the > : ,j,.y limners' Co operative Milk Co. it Algion ['ark, X.S.W., is taking as i\mv as three milkings per week, the average running about seven milkings a fori night. This mean'- record supplies of cream al ihe butter factories in the milk zone, and : ,i the present price of butter remunerative returns. At the Shoalhaven end the Bacchus Marsh condensery is taking at Is per gallon every can of milk that its suppliers can produce, and il is stated that by reason of this competition city milk suppliers in that area receive more favourable treatment in the form of a lesser number of block days. It is reported that since the establishment of this condensery the increased returns have added considerably to the value of the land in thai area.

Dairy farmers generally in the Bush district are more than pleased at the autumn that is being experienced. There is a good growth of grass, with a pleutitude of clover, and the milk supply is accordingly keeping up well, assuring an extended season.

Al the dispersal sale recently at Addingtoti of W. and J. Knight's stud Shorthorn cattle the cows and heifers averaged £6O each, the tup price being 235 guineas. The highesl price paid for a bull was 175 guineas, and 67 lots -.sere sold for si total of £4652,

I'situa holds the record tor being the chief cheese export port of the Dominion, the value of the cheese exported for the seven Months ended 30th November last being £1,8u4,430. New Plymouth was nest with cheese valued at £1,340,0b'3, whilst Auckland was third with £1,226,59S worth of cheese.

Mr McCurdy (Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Food) informed Mr Holme- in the Hou.-e of Commons that there was no likelihood of butter falling to the former controlled price. As compared with the price of milk, there would be no profit left on milk turned into butter if British butter were .-old at less than ,"s.

A Manawatu farmer who has. bcea investigating the rabbit nuisance in Masterton district found that one was faced with the problem of feeding eight rabbits to one sheep. A Masterton farmer's rabbiter earned £SOO at 3d per head last year. The last live bags of skins cost the landowner £2l, but as a set off they realised £lbi. Referring to the Government's decision against extending contract- for the purchase of Ketr Zealand meat beyond June. Mr Massey estimates that 10,000,000 carcases require lilting during the year, whereas there is only shipping space available for 8,000,000. Mr Massey urges the Board of Agriculture to take the initiative in making y.«w- arrangements.