FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 July 1907, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

Iho co-opera live dairy factories will soon be presenting their annual balancesheets and making preparations for beginning operations iii September, Die dealers are already in evidence and it is reported that tentative offers have been made up aa high as 10d per lb. H this is correct, it is surprising that there should be any hesitation about acceptance; however, dealings with the farmers run upon no rule or system. Last year the directors of some factories believed that prices would soar above the fancy values named by the dealers, ami such tactnrirs were worked upon this belid. Untie:* was consigned instead nf being sold, and many people are looking with interest for the balance-sheets of these concerns. Thi-i reason an experiment is to be tried. Many factories have installed cheese-making plants, and the idea is to make butter or cheese as the lluctnations of the market warrant. Cheese has been temptingly high, and without trying to ascertain the reasons for tl»is and estimating the prospect of the future, there is a disposition to It!ieve that the cheese market will continue favorable—hence the dual plants. If there is one thing more certain than another, upon present indications. H is that cheese will decline. The market is controlled l>y Canada, In l Dominion being the principal suppht ,* to the l'.ritish market, and (here is v.; suggest ion that the Canadian make wiii be short—oll the contrary, there is evidence in the lowering tendency of value* that the output will be as-largc. if not larger than last year. Then, again, it must not be overlooked that canned meats are regaining the, ground lost ijnough the Chicago disclosures. The proposition of utiling one or other of the plants as occasion may demand U satisfactory enough on paper, but is sate to break down in practice.—Wellington Post.

The Melbourne Age says:—''An interesting stage has just been reached in the arrivals of wheat in this year's harvest. The estimated yield this season was 22,600,000 bushels, while last year it was 23,500.000 bushels, a diminution of 800,000 bushels. The total deliveries to the same date for the two seasons were 18,040,000 bushels last year and IH,UDO,000 bushels this year, so that up to the present this season's deliveries are within 500,000 bushels of the quantity that had come forward by this time last year. The Director of Agricuture points out that it will be interesting to see whether the abnormal price will bring out a considerable amount of wheat that was being held back. So far the deliveries are only 4,500,000 bushels short of the estimate of the harvest, and it is generally reckoned that (i,000,000 bushels are required for home consumption and seed. FOLTRY NOTES. Mate up. Spade the runs. . Visit the shows. (let in fresh blood. Don't be a quitter. Study the standard. (let the birds tame. Lice assist disease. Provide a dust bath. Aiivert'se your wants. Good birds always sell. "Quality" counts most. Clean up the incubator. Don't buy ""cheap" eggs. Keep up the greenstuff. Kindness beats medicine. Only the failures "croak." Stop up all house cracks. Keep fowls in the orchard. Condition wins most prizes. Hand feed the breeding males. There is lots of room on top. Always fresh—the new-laid egg. Quickly learned—soon forgotten! "The judge's lot is not a luippy one.''

Experience is eost'y lmt imperative. Don't kick when you're fairly beaten. Plant out cabbage or lcale for green feed.

There is a big demand for good judges. Why not try it? It is pence saved that makes the proiit in poultry culture. The best quality bird you can buy ithe cheapest—liist and last. Line-breeding is useless unless properly cam'd out -'lnn'l tinker at it! If you intend to buy any eggs tlu.s reason, get them soon. Then if the hatch fails the replace setting will be of great value. The man who oirers you thoroughbred sittings at 2s (id knows too little It) justify your trading with him. (lood help is scarce. There are always vacancies for good poultry managers. The good man is usually working far himself. When you begin lo think the things you know will lil! a big book, remeiuocr the things von don't know will fill a bigI ger.—Austraian Hen.