FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8049, 14 February 1906, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

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JOTTINGS. &J The supply le the Kugbv-road TO Creamery of tho Midhirst Dairy' Co. i 8 ,M gradually decreasing. At present the "sM supply is about IO.OOOIbs of milk daily, \: provided by 30, suppliers. ' *■, : The luglewood Dairy Company is " : - * now turning out about 70 boxes of but. ter per day. The prices that calves arc now fetchiug are so low that many of the farm- ■-■- ers around the luglewood district are boiling them down for the pigs. This is regarded as a very payable businew, and our represeiuative was informed by one farmer that out of a batch of

suckers taken iuto the sale by him, the lon est bid received was Us. This is v ,. a huge price for four-week-old pigs, ' ' and it is no wonder that when os is of- M fercd for six-month calves, they arc •"! killed and given to the pigs, for which '. I there is so good demand. .1 One of the handiest pig-slyos that , ' has come under the notice of our re- f r * presentative is that on the farm of Mr ''* ~ ,■ liobert Stevens, near Durham road, -»j luglewood. Mr Steven* has erected ,-,'_& ten largo pens, five on either s>"do cf a - : ffi race. ' When the sows are near far- *\3 rowing they are driven into this race, *.l'\3 and penned off into different compart- ''-% M incuts. WheiK the young are ready \si&l for the market, the mothers are Jib! Inken nway, and the little ones'driven ~™sß& along to the other end of the race, v ' 'fj where a door is erected, and the piga ' ' ''tJ driven into ihe cart. The transferring '?', 1 of the pigs from pen to cart is doue in '■?:> about one-tenth of the time that it '4tsfl lakes when an ordinary stye is in uso. ■ M^JB Mr Dnekthought has recently in. >* »»qßtl stalled on his farm on the Durham rood "' JjH

a ccnpleof Lawrence-Kennedy milking $M machines. These machines are ghing Mg Uie greatest, satisfaction, Mr Buck, jjrjg thought being able to get through 70 * <5jS cows in a couple of hours with only %JB ,"sf| man and a boy working the machines,* ,-J| The power is obtained from a huge water wheel, which has been erected* '3 about a couple of hundred yards aw»y '% from the shed. Although the air his >. '£"l to be driven underground (his distance, •'., *.' the working of (lie mnehinca is not • V liampered in the slightest. Mr Buck- #"-/ *i thought is very pleased with Hie ia»- s J chines, which, he says, the cows mind - '1 less than (hey do human milkers. ...» llust has made its uppcarauce in the --V oals in the lnglewood district, • ~t Itagwort is in great abundance near I Kaimala imd (he surrounding district, - s and the farmers have all their work ■•'„ fitt out in suppressing the weed. ; j