FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 September 1907, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

It Is nearly always the gentle bull, lb.- dear pet, that gores or tramples hh muster to death.

Celts should be trained to walk fast before there is an attempt to improve the in any other gait. Who is the best adviser on farm practice; A successful farmer in your own diitrk'i. That is—he can be if he wauts to.

it is impossible to develop a colt in two directions. You cannot make hbn a tough horse and a ton-horse at the. same time.

A cow will not, of her own accord, move so quickly a? toi mpair her milk flow. It is when she is "rousted" by a dog that the trouble occurs. A good example is worth more than preaching, and a dairyman should show hise mployees by his personal conduct how cows should be treated.

You can better afford to starve your horses at any other time than during the first year of their existence. A stunted colt seldom makes a well-deve-loped horse.

Some of the so-called sacred cattle of India have been Imported into Texas. Their hides are.said to be impervious to ticks, hence the reason for their importation.

Many persons who say they "cannot take milk" because they drink it at meals as if it were water, would find that no disagreeable effect would follow when used in place of food, and not as a food accompaniment. Hawera Dairy Company is reported to have sold its September and October make of butter at 10>/ 2 d per lb to Messrs Bray Bros., of Wellington. The cheese output will be consigned through Messrs A. S. Patterson and Co., of Wellington, at o'/jd per lb without recourse.

The Stratford Co-operative Dairy Factory's directors have sold the whole of their season's output to Messrs Pearson and Rutter, Manchester, at the very satisfactory figure of 10'/ 2 d per lb for the September to March butter, and 10'/ 4 d for April. The shareholders are to be congratulated, says the Post, as this is the best sale yet recorded in Taranaki this season.

The Tarurutangi Dairy Co. has disposed of its butter output to Messrs j Collett and Co.. of New Plymouth and Cardiff (England). The ninth annual report of the Waitui Dairy Co. states that in the past season 2.124,416t1)s milk were received, vielding 83.583,25.1 lbs butter fat. from which was made 02,1091b» of butter, It took 23.Wlbs of milk to make a pound of butter, and each pound of butter-fat made 1.1021bs of butter. The average test was 3.93. ,Out of the surplus of £302 Is 2d the directors proposed to pay 5 per cent interest on shire capital subscribed to July 31st, 1906 ( £3O 17s 4d), and to pay to suppliers a further sum of %d per lb of butter-fat ( £2Ol 4s), and to carry forward the balance of £l2 IDs lOd. Suppliers will then have received equal to 9%d per lb of butter-fat for the season. The amount advanced for milk was £3134

7s 7d. Wages cost £177 18s 4J, railage and cartage £54 5s lOd, and firewood £7O 3s and the total expenditure was £4103 5s lOd. .The amount receied for butter was £4043 17s 7d.

Dairy factories in the Inglewood district have sold their butter and cheese output for the coming seison. The Tariki Dairy Co. disposed of its cheese to Messrs Wright, Stevenson and Co. of Dunedin, at a satisfactory price. which the company is not at liberty to disclose. Maketavra his sold ils output of butter outright to Messrs Pearson and Butter, and in this case also the price has not been disclosed. Mr Mr John Hughes, of Bootlc (Liverpool has secured the Moa Company's make at a price dependent on the grading figures at this end, working on a »S points grade and an increase for evenadditional point :_on last year's results the factory should secure 10% d per lb., Lepperton's output has been bought by I Messrs Kearley and Tonge at 10 11-321' per lb to the end of December, and 10 5-16 dto the last shipment in March. Tarata sold to Messrs Pearson and Rutter at 10% d from September to March, and Waitui at the same figure to Messrs Bevins and Co. (Auckland) from September to April. The payments for August milk are as follows:—Tariki, £ll4 3s 10J; Moa £734 Is 10d; Maketawa. CM7 2s 4il: Tarnta, £42 Gs 3d; Waitui, £37 3s lid; Lepperton, £125 8s Bd. In proposing the toast of "The Dairy Industry 7 ' at a ceremony held at \Vh:ikaronga the other night in connection with the opening of the new cheese factory erected there bv Messrs J. Nathan and Co., Ltd., Mr F. .1. Nathan had something to say in respect to the Government's grading system. In his opinion the Dairy Commissioner and his stall could, with very great benefit to the colony as a whole, be much more severe than at present. Many factories were now treated with far too much consideration. The annual reports had complained that far too great a qantity of butter was coming into the stores,"and only just managing to score enough points to squeeze into first grade. Jt would do a lot of good to the industry if all that butter were put back into the second grade, as such action would cure a lot of carelessness and cause more, attention to be given to the milk. The Government had done very much for the industry, but were neglecting their duty in a very serious manner in one direction. All over New Zealand the dairymen had been asking for an experimental station. They already had a bacteriological station and experimental farms, but, in spite of what the Dairy Commissioner had asked for year after year, no experimental station for the dairy industry had been given. The Government had passed over the question, but the dairymen were to blame in the matter, for the simple reason that instead of fighting for the principle of the erection of an experimental station for the benefit of the industry as a whole, each town wanted it put up in its own particular locality. The industry deserved more consideration than this, to his mind.