FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 261, 28 October 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

iiI'VLNU KJiUAItULI'-Slj 01'' UKADE. (From the Dairyman.) j One of the greatest dairy produce j firms ill the "world lias this season concluded arrangements for the purchase of some four thousands tons of cheese, regardless of grade. In this connection we may mention that one of the executive of one of the Dairy Associations recently informed ns that his factory had one lot of second grade i cheese last, season. As their manager is one oi .New Zealamls champion makers, Uiey were naturally perturbed at the receipt of the grade note. Tliev wrote home to their agents telling ; them to pick out every case of this second grade lot, and pay special attention 10 it when it was lleing sold. They obeyed their orders. They paid spe« ial attention to the second grade cheese, and sold it for two shillings per cwt. more .Ultin they got for aay of the first grade. I COOLED MILK FOE CHEESE-MAK- | ING. < The Dairy Division of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, Canada, is making some experiments in reference to the amount of cheese and the quality of same that caa .bo made from cooled and nncooled milk respectively. Tlw experiment is under the control of Mr G. 1-1. Barr, one of the Departmental instructors, and the amount of cheese being made each day is 451b. It was intended to make one 801b. cheese per day, ibut the quantity ol milk available would not permit this heijig done. -Mr Barr takes charge of the milk immediately it is taken from the cow. M r Burr is at the same time making some experiments with the caein test. lie ' admits that the test ig a nice one. The I result of these experiments will ao I doubt be very interesting.

advertising campaign by DENMARK. Tile Danes are advertising an immense advertising campaign in England and .Scotland in connection with tii'iir butter o« the markets of Kngland. Tllis fact, perhaps it is that has caused the Produce Commissioner, in London. ,V.H. C. Cameron, to recommend the question of advertising New Zealand I. to the attention of tue Naliuiud i*>. -• Association. Better late than acvcr.

A DEAL IN TARANAK.I I-A.N IV Already the croakers of the city Press Slave commenced the cry: "Woe, woe. j all *is woe," and ithey have commenced "to prophecy a great uig tumble in land I values. Which reminds 11s to tell a little story of a Taranaki land deal the I truth of which we can absolutely vouch I for. One of the old-time settlers, some I four years ago sold a 100-acre farm for £3O per acre. The buyer milked on it for two seasons, then in turn sold it for £4O per acre. While lie was 011 the land he took from the factory £2OOO for milk mid pigs, etc., nnif he left the farm £(?000 better .off than he ivas when he entered into possession. Now, perhaps, our raiders will want to know what happened to the man who bought at £4O, and who he was. Well, he was the man ,who sold at £3O. and lie. reckons he has got a good bargain, in spite 01 the fact I hat u has cost £lO per acre to find it out. I'erbaps it will be said that the purchaser at £-10 has a large family, ami is going lo make the money by his children's labour. Bill the reverse is the wise. It was the mail "who bought at X-'IO and sold at £4O, who had the family, anil thai was about all the capital he had. The man that bought at £4O milks 011 the snare system. and his share milkers do well at the work.

AN AUK NT'S IIAKD IA'CK. Ip tu Hie Uine tii.it llio news of tile vruii./le wuli tin: JJamsii Tuimnga hau ivu'ii-'.i iills colony. iir ,S. Jin ner had . i.ie following outputs lor h.a .nit : ~.u-.Uuirst, 4UU tons miller ; iiali . . - i ISO ton* j half Canterbury ioU ions 5 Jiuiun tliurpe. lib Wiienuakura, 120 ions; Kaupokonui, 100 ton* butter ; Kapunga, 40 ions butter on open consignment. and also uUO tons of cneese from Curdiir, on ojh'u consignment. lie had also arranged 2UuU tons of cheese from Jvaupokonui at an advance of 3'/.d, without recourse ; and Jiad staked tiie linn's jonnuission to nouiing on the* following Mil/;.its : —Uaoiiui. zuO tons Jjuticr • Ue. 'iOO 1011.1 ot bull it ; liaponga uo.) *.on.j of choose ; JlangaloKi. -.U!) of butter, the guarantee being six i:u, une-sixteenth pence per pound for .lie cheese; and U%d per pound for •nuter, If tile products did not realise tuu amounts given the linn were to lose uuir commission, or such portion of it as was dvlicieal. The ca'Ole messages about the Toliunga business, iiowevei s Has rendered the result of the lugotiatUon«j very uncertain. After such a na/d battle, a guud deal of sympathy uHI naturally hv felt for the genial Fellow of the lloval Geographical i Society. j

XMAi 01' X7O.UUO W'Uiail OF JiUTTEIi iM OME DKaU Tiie price at whieh Ue JUtlmm Dairy Company lias sold its output from V)etol>er to -March is, it now transpires. 1 not i'.u.b. AUDI'S. Weddel and f Co., who purchased it. are acting as brokers, The price is believed to i>e a record l'or thi* season, though smaller factories have sold ac tile same ngure less commission. The output was on oll'er at H J /,d for some time, but buyers were unwilling to go so High. The i|iiantity of butter corned by this little deal will amount very closely to 7oU tons, every -box of wllicli will, we have not the slightest hesitation b'j classed grade, vvtmt About Uw dirty milk supply now. from Ihe buyer's point of view? Mere is the position: A great Home linn, who no uoubt I I know the quality of the Eltham butter inuch 'better tllan any one in tills l)u----minion, have been able to sell,, in their : capacity as brokers, some £73.000 worth of butter months and months before it ia made, and we think it must •lie admitted that the firm (putting up the money must have a pretty good idea that the butter tfill be worth the money. With butter and cheese selling at present rates. we think it would be a fair thing if the oilicial fault-finders found something else to talk about for the next few months besides the dirty milk supply. Vnder the riivuinstances it is a reasonable proposition to let 'those hard workhig farmers who rise with tli** sun. week in and week oul. Sundays and 'holidays, have a liltle rest jirom eternal fault iinding ami peysmition.