FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 July 1907, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

IHlitler and cheese bcyers are already ■eZ warpath <n laranaki making tu Hmjjfe* is U> tli« daleb of dirjctor.' has bern made, anil is beinto in *»»; quarter*, lb*; WSghrtmiw of North iaranaki shuj;l BsSfcn* and erect a large central facWKMgivtt W'altara or Moturoa, the preHpSt fatt-rns l».ing ''« d a ' cnanierie.,. HgWtbis means, it is thought, a great &avaanufarture and general worklp££ expenses wHI be effected, a* well PT .* luting the ability to produce a nn.fe pir* and first-class article. Efir ik arialgamstjon end concentration |<s wear very attractive and practieaV.e on K* -»l>er, bir. have a knack, when put into a'"- -gneuce, of not tKir.mg out as ant* i>s '; *>ted Ilowetn, »! ffould like (o hear 5< •* A>se of the pimpaVl before laying anyfc"\ hjiig further regarding there. |,." ' Lsci is still going up on 'he Waiaias* S* ■' Plata.- tin- richest dairying district in 3*" Taranaki. A party who la.«f yeas Brought a setti mat C«i per acre-a price Ee> (Ciraovrid at the time beyond the buJ's £?'»■ Ta'we—law just sola wit for £37 los. pr' The wine sittion elawfc d hanh two It- war* W«r* »t £23 A fanner on the li*,' *tfcorlin.l ,-osd, Manaia, has just reEi~ /used £W au acre for hi* place, which fo; serried a cow to the am all last year. B&At Oukeho a farm was purchased at i&, U*. AK orer the district pi-** for ilairy la iJ-flre going up. Whether they ' *ili ad.auce much further in questionable. A idt of people seem to have jestd things on the big prices ruling for ' aroduce this put year—prices that no , tarn man can expect to continue for any •tagth of thnc The price* imlised for stock at some of the e'earing sties that have taken jkca in South Tarauaki during the past icek or so have not been very big. At *■» sale cows—fairly good ones—were V'saockkd down at about £l, while for _ due no bid at all could be obtained. 3dbm of tl* same animals cost the fc.-. :ws»r from £7 to XlO two seasons beSev* E*em. It is not generally known that the |pL otdinary farm worm is a capital fertilisJpt eft A Sou. Km Taranaki farmer inac that Us pastures are much wftcr -richer now llwi Uiey have been since RrS*" frit giauerl through the same ordinary fc.' worms. They swarm over the plate, §'j-bore below the grass, Jevoux the while R?' grab thai eats the roots of the grass, 5J* "tad dying in their holes their remains !*.•>-enrich the land and grass to quite an Sip appreciable exlent. §* * Nowhtre on ihe coast is the grass lookf& lag bettor thin at Waverley, where it !mung away in early spring-like m. is Astonishing what can be done s dairying business. Mr T. filler, ih* So-ilb Taranaki, tells us that erd of 63 milch cows has earned 0 for the season. This works out out €lO per cow—aurely a record le colony. Mr EUcy is a capable, taking, and eminently practical farwho understands the value of vigculling and testing of,butter-fat ch indrridual cow. It might be oned that as a «upplier to the Riri efcetse factory he has been receiri U per tb for his butter-fat. M fanners get rid of their places st their wiff The other week a taki farmer wan approached by a agent with a view to putting hi* en the market.- "Whal's the good ling; I cannot get a place that will •e better," the farmer replied. Af-lot-of persuasion, however, the land i got the farmer to put the place a hands at £3l per acre—a price the owner thought beyond its real and therefore not likely to attract rer. - A few days later the agent d hhu up and informed him that id soM the farm at £3l 10s! In nurse the fanner gave up possesaad (old his friends that he was to one of the towns to lire and take it easy for a time. But he lot go to the town. He went to the purchaser of his place entered him £260 on top of his in and resumed possession! t is similar in some respects to tcf toht of a Taranaki man who (fPjllwent to Booth Africa after selling his for £2O an acre. Things did not P" 1 ant too well in Africa, and so he Elglr" returned to New Zealand. He looked Hp; ssvosat the district for a time and then gST'-.wenl to the man to whom he had sold &' .' his farm and offered him £25 an acre fit * tor it. He got the place. »/' ■ The Chief Stock Inspector (Mr Bluninforms ns that very few cases of have been reported to the Deggf " MrrUnemt of late Evidently the diseaae gradually stamped out The gfe&r' flenartment has reason to feel gratified if r-yfta the tueeeu thai has atUnded their work The iaamau in sheep on this coast ISv*- jndng Una year is unusually large, it iIH WcoaaUag for 330400 of the 708,000 to ad intrease'of thee olony—almost SO per g&F • aeat. The big prices obtaining for wool IjKp.- sad lambs is.responsible for this sub- ---' iantiat mcrease. KL/, It looks aa tikNgh the record prices Eh. Mat have been given for stud rams is wfe." Hkely to **ftfr"l» this coming year. One pr". breeder in theWaverley disKl v f rlet informs us that he has been offered

*&* . *a& kw accepted six guinea* for a line Bw Vnaw to be delivered in February next. fig, „ fht heavy-fleeced Lincoln* are in big de-Bgj-*r..es»pdy«nd the fortunate breeders of this HSs ; ; iba* Of ram have been haying and seem H»V : afctty t° haTe * E innings. z Eg. .5 /The Stock Department state that 80-000 Bfc dtltee were knocked on the head in Tar»E£% *ufl laat year, 'lb* poor prices ruling &>!■** «or young stock, and uk high rates ugiven for porkers and pigs are the Bgfc'.'awaen ef this wboleajue slaughter 01 Ejj. atlvefc Of tonne itjs only tue poorer E; .ealrea tiat bare been given the nappy BSf~- dbpateh, tie better kind being reared. SK;' -the hero* of the province should benefit El*"' *y thia weeding oni a lew seasons heuce. L- ' - Xbe ancation, Boea farming pay! is (j*. -'often asked. Of amm it pays (a confc " temporary replies), or it would not have I%'. Men carried on from the beginning 01 Bf, ike world. A good many men do not Wi anko it pay, bat that Is generally their p ; ; 'own fault. H Host folks (says a fanners' paper) pi think they know now to wash a churn. Ei".. hot a great many use a cloth when wip- %•* tag the inside. They might feel hurt lin' if they were told that thia was not right; St*,.., .and yet, when they atop to think about Pjj"*- ft, eaa they not see that even though the %£• eioth is dean some bits of it are likely KSI ,to stick to the wood? Rinse, but never B? • «e a doth. 5V ' Agriculture should be taught in the JKg.'"" school, not beaanse it is a practical sub- £*"-»•• jeet, hit because it is a cultural subject Si as wett. When properly classified, the S 'taudation factors in agriculture are as r* 4 ' etrongiy educational as those of reading. e~i adthmetie and grammar. This brings •grieslture within the environment of ff-. .tmj rational system of education. £*'-'. Toe Walrarapa Daily Times quote* show that the carrying capa- *•' eity of a number of sheep runs in the Wairarapa has trebled since 1883. and K concludes that enormous improvements |:'-- hare been effected in clearing and grassy£~ tag the various stations. &*• Dipping and pouring the newly drawn Wi* ' milk, thus exposing it to the sir, will, fe'" providing the air be clean., aid in keep- £ ; lag it by allowing the animal heat to fc~ * pass off and afford a chance for the oxygL- gen to destroy many germs which tend %f to decompose. All fermentation and ile- |£, composition becomes much more active at high temperatures, benee cooling to Sly. SOdeg. Falir.. is good. Keep it 1 thus cool; and don't goess—have a thermometer. Germany has thirty-one agricultural ' college* maintained by the State, and i .there are many agricultural schools of which half the cost is defrayed by the * ition. The United States has sfcrtyve agricultural colleges, with eighteen •t '- :ot!sand students, and a vcarlv income : . £900,000. .;*. The output of the Eltham dairy fac- *. ' IT)' for the past season constituted a reh~ I'd in its history. Altogether 807'/-. e \ ma of batter were manufactured, and £-- :67j919 pai.l out to suppliers. The $ ' >ar's working leaves a balance of £20(10 *f _ ill to be distributed, and (his will brinjr ->-' e amount paid per pound for hutter\p: tup to in'/, per lb, a* against 10.2-ld si year. Tin- busiest month was Dember, wlien I22'i lons of butter were ££7 'uiufactured and £10,644 paid inf. &'. rhms Improvements have been earned K, " .1 at tho factor) - during the part aw fc', ."ekj. A Silkeborg churn and butter Hr- orker has lieen imported from DenK> mtU. It will churn and work one ton t r time—an improvement on the old *l>e limit of which was half a arid wbleh only churned and did nnt HEii'<»* the bnfter. To cope with the InWsj& *'***£& supplies rmnther rream val. mnkHer'' tank* holding 4fpnn o-a'lnns nf water. HSfiv V replace fb» old iron funic", and a new Kjr - 0 b on hand.—Armis. i Ejv AerfrntUre jivcp emnlornicnt to persons In France. »r one-fifth mZ Mho popolsUos.