NEWS AND NOTES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 345, 5 October 1932, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

GRAND FARMERS' WEATHER. (It is mentioned in a statement issued by the Empire Marketing Board that more milk is used for drinking or cooking than is made into butter, and more is made into butter than into cheese or any other product. Empire countries taka second and third places on the list of butter and cheese exporting countries, but make only a poor showing in the export trade in eggs and preserved milk. In most countries eggs are mostly produced for home consumption, but it is pointed out that only Demnark among all the exporting countries of the world exports as much as half its total production of eggs. * * * * Great room for an expansion of the dairy industry in the Gisborne district was remarked on by Mr. W. A. Phillips, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association, at a meeting of farmers. He said that there appeared to he large blocks of admirable dairying land, at present carrying sheep, that could be cut up for dairying. In adaition, much skim milk was going to waste. Sufl&cient skim milk and whey were going to waste in New Zealand to enabie the Dominion to export 1,000,000 porkers a year. * * * Speaking at Morrinsville recently, Mr. C. Lk Luke, representative of No. 3 ward on the Dairy Control Board, said: — The board had given financial help to research work at Massey Agricultural College, realising that though the work of the college might not be appreeiated now, in a fiew years' time the country would benefit from having such a good research centre. The scientist's mind sent. Particular attention was being work slowly, but surely, so that too much could not he expected at prepaid at the coll'ege to the difiiculties -with cheese and butter. He urged • all farmers visiting Palmerston North to go out to the college and spend an afternoon with Mr. Bruce Levy, the plant research expert. They would soon see that the dairy 'industry had been throwing away countless millions by sowing the wrong sti'ains of ryegrass and clover.