FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 225, 16 September 1908, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

u Shearing has already gturted in some e parts of Southern Taranaki. ' His expected, if prices keep up, that tho cheese factories of Taranaki will j return their suppliers from 13d to lid ■ per lb of butter-fat. _ Pihama and Ononui dairy factories y have sold their output of butter for the season at 11 '/■>& per lb. 11 Not only dairy, but also store, cattle " are at present in somewhat poor condition in Wairarapa and llawke'a Bav. J The mortality has been considerable everywhere. Overstocking may have '• had something to do with the trouble, together with the lack of arrangements made for winter-feeding dairy cows, but 011 the big farms and stations the reason has been simply an insufliciency of feel. In the. dry summer cattle were almoit unsaleable, except at what appeared to be ridiculously low prices, and the farmers consequently retained more ani- ' nials than they could sufficiently feed. Considerable loss resulted. Feed now is I vnry scarce lor fat ttittle, and it is not considered that things will be greatly improved in this respect before Decemf ber next. Mr. John Sawors, of Edendale, the champion checsomaker of tho Dominion, has had to have his leg amputated as a rosult oi the accident that befel him last wook. The accident is of considerable concern to the Edendale Dairy Factory Company, as the factory has just commenced its new season, to which they were locking forward with such ;>< fulness, in this being in a measure ■--lived and fortified by tho complete i.inlidence which they reposed in the -kill and oversight of Mr. John Siiwers. as manager of the largest cheese fuc'iiry in the South Island. In their diieuinia they wired to DaUry Commissioner Ouddie, and that officer, reeognis'ng the urgency and reasonableness of their request, promptly replied that Instructor .tames Sawors, of Invercargill (a brother of the injured man, and formerly manager of Edendale Dairy Fiietory) had been told oil' to assume temporary command at Edendale. Mrs. John Sawors was the recipient of u sheaf of telegrams of sympathy, sent from all parts of the Dominion, in the sail misfortune |hat had befallen her huslmnd. Mr. John 'Maxwell, of Whare&ma, lus achieved a result in winter feeding of I sheep that will be hard.to beat, states the Pahiatua Herald. He has fed ninety wethers for five months on a three and n-biilf acre patch of turnips, and the sheep are said to be thriving well. Mr Alex Scott, auctioneer, Timarn, lias returned from a three months trip to Australia, where lie and his brother, Mr (ieorge Scott, and Mr McFarlane, of Claremont, Timaru, pur-' chased the Taniaro estate of 20,000 acres. This estate is about 300 miles' from Sydney, and is part of tile famous Liverpool Plains.