For Breeder and Dealer

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 134, 27 August 1927, Page 26

For Breeder and Dealer

Canadians Tour Euron, t jian 2°o Canadian farmers' 3 *'*> the British Isles earlv in ,0 'iins to a plan of the Dominion S? o ™- ment of Agriculture, and London, Liverpool, Glasgow and A centres Isays Reuter) Thev ° U "‘ ! also make a brief visit to Denmark study co-operative marketing k " World's Largest Farm.— The 1,.. ranch in the world, the famous Ranch, in America, and comn, ■*“ area of 1,280.000 acres is ?o S’ 9 * l the hands of a woman, the mg been bequeathed by the a,! , Richard King to her onlv a e S!ri When her husband died in im®** King was left to direct a va« J ,r ‘ that was then nothing more , h ?A large tract of land on a border L ernoss. she faced the task cL l!c ously, and transformed South into an area radiating prosperity estate is now valued at* £15.000,000. By the sacrifice of 7?2 acres of her property Mrs ’^' l tained a railway to * brhig within reach of markets, and 1 founded several towns which nowK h thousands of inhabitants. she liberally in the establishment ** schools, churches and hospitals sv C was a famous hostess, and m<«.i once entertained Presidents foremost figures in American The old ranch-house was burneddn£ la years ago, and she built .a . residence tit a cost of £70,000 in described as the finest farmhouse v America.

Better Beef Trade Prospects. Though the meat industry i s T" pressed no one who studied gently the beef classes at the Bril bane exhibition could fail to deter' promising indications, states the trlasian.” The Prime Minister and* Mr J. B. Cramsie, chairman of the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board of Ne* South Wales, have both been speakir, optimistically during their Queensland visit of the future of the industry. Mr Bruce has argued that the Argents has practically reached the limit o' its export capacity, and that in vie* of the increasing purchases of the United States, there will be a work shortage of beef within the next flvi years. Mr. Cramsie, who toured & world two years ago in the interests o the Australian meat industry, declare at the opening of the live stock anmeat industry hall in the showground; that the time was ripe for Austral! to take her place as one of the great est meat-producing countries in tht world. Mr. Cramsie described th meat industry exhibit as “super-excel lent,” and said that it showed that Queensland could produce beef equa to that from any other country. What the South African Farmer haste Contend With. —A short while back farmer in the Lydenburg district states the “Capetown Times,” on going to his cattle kraal, found tha 12 of his best trek oxen had beer stabbed in the abdomen. Last wet' a Lydenburg lady discovered thatom of her finest cows had been stabbe; in a similar manner, and a day ortw< after her neighbour’s cow suffered th* same fate. It is presumed to be th* act of a native seeking to satisfy , petty spirit of revenge.

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UNSATISFACTORY SYSTEM ONLY ONE NEEDED (Special to THE SUN.) HAWERA, To-day. At a meeting of the Joll Dairy Coir puny an important discussion tool place on the question of branding l dairy produce, the present system being unanimously condemned. The following resolution was cr ried: “That in the opinion of tbi'j meeting the present method as carriK out by the New Zealand Governmer in marking dairy produce for expo', with each respective grade should ■ abolished and the following methc substituted, and that as far as th actual grading is concerned it shoe be carried out as at present exce; that the word “graced” should oc be marked on produce and the graft notes forwarded to the dairy conpa nies as in the past.” Mr. A. C. Johnstone explainedtii since the institution of “finest” gra< the Control Board had classified chee: in a different way than had been dorbefore. For years, he said, they n. had it hammered into them that - they produced a good-quality artK f the British consumer would pay fo*J* but this had been disproved. Tht -; should protest against the presen system and they should only havepn duce marked with one word, “grades Some superfine arriving at Home not at all suitable for consumptw and some second-grade cheese ”‘- much more suitable. There were numbers of consumers at Home w _ stated that pasteurised cheese haa taste. „ The chairman, Mr. J. B. *^ ur v:, said that a good many years **®*“r. was seldom any difference in P“. between first and second-grade but during the commandeer the Bn Government had put the price on ond-grade cheese and since then a* chants had deducted 2s 4d on the l ond-grade article. He quite a PP*vL of the proposal, and said it J voul . a good step if they could bring.; about. He spoke in favour ot gi®**" at this end as a check on factory agers. . t Mr. Harrison pointed out tn L, opposition of the Federation or naki Dairy Factories to the tion of three grades about three . ago had been unavailing. -