FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 214, 31 August 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

f liutier remains dear all over the Continent as well as in Denmark, report Weddcll and Co., in the third week in July. The high price in tha United Kingdom is di awing Siberian from consumption in Germany and; other countries, and our imports of all; kinds of butter for the last four weeks are 22,7-21) cwts. in excess of the iorresponding period of last year; while for the previous four weeks there was a deficiency of 3!),434 cwts. compared, with last year. It thus leok.; as if the period of weekly deficiency of imports, which lias generally prevailed'; since Jamnrx, has passed away, and a period of excess begun. .■ Whilst passing along the East Coast en voyage tu Melbourne, 51 r Gilruth' called, iu at Gishorne, where a teachers' winter school nvas in session. Tie delighted the 'teachers, taking them to the freezing works, where he gave a lesson in anatomy by .dissecting a sheep. After showing how this was' to he done, Mr Gilrutii dealt wiih the thorax, showing its contents. Taking 1 lhe lungs, he pointed out certain points illustrating pleurisy in a human being, and also symptoms disclosing a similar disease to worms in dogs. The sheep was a good subject for tne purpose, having at one time, suffered from pleurisy and hydatid cysts. The heart was dissected, and its working illustrated. Mr Gilruth then opened up the abdomen, and showed the stomach and its various parts, opening thein and stating the functions of ''each.

A New Zealand correspondent of the IPastoralists' Review says:—"The Hon. J. D. Ormoiid is putting 10,000 acres of his Wallingford property on the market, having bought a big block of Queensland land. J/t is stated fjliat Mr George Hunter, torangahau, will shortly offer 10,000 acres;" Mr Spencer fiollan Mangatarata, 10,000 acres: Mr K. .Toh-nson, Takapau, 7000 acres; and Mokoia, 3000 acres; while 10,000 acres of Mount Herbert are still for sale, as well as part of Motuotaria, 1-1.000 acres, and a number of oilier small properties, making altogether some , 100,000 acres of Ilawkc's Bay land in the market. If all this land were settled it would set the province booming but the prices are in many cases above 'the ideas of buyers. However, the land will have to be sold some {into within the next ten years."