Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43318, 28 April 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

Describing the duties he performed as. a farm rouseabout at 25s a week, a union witness stated at the hearing of the farm labourers’ dispute at

Rangiora, Canterbury, that he started t-iZ the day about 3.30 a.m. or 4.30 am. fey .training racehorses, then he did odd jobs on the farm, including ; v :V milking cows, doing fencing, feeding v?” pigs, digging the garden, harvesting, . ' breaking in horses to the plough ■ aud to narness. driying sheep to the saleyards and back to the farm, and making sheep' and stock-yard gates. Asked:if hegot a v borfus when his master’s ? horses , won a . race, he re-. ; plied in the .negative.. “ I was a‘ ' handy man,” he added, who could do any mortal thing I was asked, to -.-.d0.” . 8 r During the first half of last year butter substitutes totalling 138,565 . pounds and valued at £6,142 were . 11:, into . New Zealand. The ; -■ duty collected upon these importaf tions " amounted to £6 12s. The I'butter, substitutes are as follows . / •:. ‘ Cqcba-butter,. nucoa-butter, nuco ' cocos-butter, palm-butter, riut- «. .hutter; peaiiut-butter, almond;butter, ’crystalsilver;fat, and neutre.;' )‘ A '% There :has been a considerable Bhipmimts for the whole Dominion .for the end of March and beginning of "April, as compared with the «V corresponding period of last year. 2,140 boxes of butter, as against ; . 7,672 boxes of butter for the same ' period of 1908, the. shortage being . attributed to butter stored for local requirements. ' ■