FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 249, 14 October 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

Three dairy companies whose outputs are consigned thru ugh Messrs. Wilier & Kiley, the English linn whose directors recommend liquidation, to wit the Kaponga, Mangatoki and Kaupukonni companies. had a conference in Jillham on Saturday regarding their position, but no line of action was decided upon. Thi' Kltham Dairy Company wiil pay out is per lb. for butter-fat for September. or a total of .€4001.). Last niunth the company made U1,.)4'21b5. o; butter. The average test was IJ.OI. The Company has arranged that its {September butter, which is at present on the water, shall be disposed of by consignment through Messrs. Weddel & Co. "Settlers are not aware of, their own strength,'' declared the ilou. J. Austey, at a meeting iu Kketahuua. "If they were to orginise and combine fur businesjj purposes they could create a linaneial institution which would advance them money practically free of interest, and -be independent of the man who at present, places them iu dilliculties by a mere scratch of tile pen.''—

Kketahuua Express. That a considerable sum of money leaves Taranaki each year for the purchase of products from the .South there are few who would be likely to express a doubi, and althuugh the exigencies oi the dairying industry may be claimed as a powerful countw-force against agricultural pursuit* iu the ■profitable employment of land and labour, th.n'e should (with the addition of freight on the importations in strong evidence) exist an increasingly lucrative outlook for local agriculture.' Perhaps as a whole' there are few districts where such a remarkable uniformity in the good pastoral qualities, combined with suitable conformation of the land, exist for dairying pursuits, but there are always exceptions to be found. There may readily be seen areas which present themselves in comparatively unsuitable nature for the essentials of a dairy farm and it is in those localities that an increased revenue might be obtained through an altered demand upon their productive qualities.-—liawera Star.

111 a letter received from a London merchant by a d'almerston firm the following sigiiilicant. paragraph appears respecting tile labor question in relation to the hemp industry;—"lt seeius to us tlint the position of this article (heriip) i s a critical one at present for New Zealand exports. At this time of the year in IIIOG the production of Manila was 480,000 bales, in 11)07 it was 012,(Mil), and this year it amounts to 030,0110 bales. This enormous increase during the last veal' has far overtaken t'he demand, and the stock in Manila is now 125,000, ana in the United Kingdom 81,000 bales, and the visible supply constitutes a record. Of late New Zealand has been on a higher level than i Manila, but, quality for : quality, the

value of the product of the Philippines is much higher intrinsically. Your labor i s a High charge on production. l.'i Manila it is hardly to be regarded, oe-

Ciius;> under tlie present administration th-' Philippines have become no impoverished Unit the people are uow-gl.nl in take anything that may lie doled out to them as wages. We wonder if, under tlie existing conditions, it will lie possible for the i\ew Zealand exports to continue. At any rate, operations demand the very greatest caution."—Standard.