FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 July 1907, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

As showing the productiveness of loci I bu*h laud (says the Hay of Plenty i'iines;, we iiiity mention that a line crop of rape, swedes and soil turnips grown on a bush burn, are nuw to be seen at Messrs Douglas Bros.* \\ hataroa property. The crop of 80 acres was *own between Christinas and New \e;r\ and is live from blight, it bear* out the contention that the l»e-t root crop* this year are to ]>c found on bush country. At the present time there are several hundred huad of cattle on the area mentioned.

At K-atherston i-, situated a dairy factory owned by one or two families and u-ed to manufacture their own butter. 1 h.'ie are about, rows at least coil'vuotanilv luiiked and their pnidiac is conveyed to tie- faeiojy in tyre wagons. Jhe plaut is American, driven by a 'Jiin&w engine and has a churn and butter worker combined iu one, said to be the only inachine of kiud in »\v Zealand. Alter the butter has come a iframe is and the churn revolving, thf butti-r jallg through rollers till i lis Millicieutiy worked; then the frame N removed, and a truck put in its place, which, as the revolution of the churn lill : is wheeled to a table from which tIH» butter proceeds to the cooling room in the ordinarv wav.