FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 288, 30 November 1908, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

j Fur the fortnigtit ended Wednesday j last the export of butter from Aucke hind to the London market totalled s 15,404 boxes, or 385 tons—one of the i) largest single shipments to London ever ~ sent from Auckland. The largest single s shipment last year was 14,209 boxes, i Ihe South African trade for tin, t'ort- ■ uigiii is taking 200 boxes, and the South • Sea Island tn.de 284 boxes. The three • shipment, totalled 15,885 boxes, or 397 ■ I""-. In addition to this export 524 ■ ci-.iic.» ol cheese went out for the fortH'ghi, as against 34:1 crates for the cor-re-,piiiiiiiug period of last season. The slupiiiinls ol butter for the corresponding loriiiigat oi last year Were 12,975 ,™. « total of oS7 , Millie lortiiight just ended, therefore, snows an increase of «0 tons. The climatic comiaion,, have been must favourable, this season, linu abundant glass is reported every where. A proper inquiry into the recent enormous condemnations of imported boneless beef iroin New Zealand and elsewhere is being asked for in '-England. [ U has already been, pointed out that the bad state of one of the consignments was due to the breakdown of the steamer's refrigerating gear, and that this information was for a long time withheld from publication, it bein«- left to be inferred that the meat had be-. come unwholesome oefoM it was pack-

j, Ihe appointment o{ Mr. Gwiilim as . Homo representative, "of the Dairying - Division, (says the Dairyman) may be • said to be a decidedly good one. Few, I jf any, of the members of the staff have ~ had the varied and unique experience I ol the gentleman who has been chosen to reside in the Old Country to keep us acquainted with what it is deemed necessary tor us to know- about what happens at the other end. Mr. Gwiilim commenced his career in a Toolcy Street house devoted to the sale of dairy products, and after a few years' experience there he gravitated to New Zealand, where he. learned the whole business of butter and cheese manufacture from A to Z. A few years' Australian experience followed, when he returned to the Dominion, and later die. was appointed to the. management of one ol New Zealand's largest and most suc- [ cessful butter factories—Eltham. For « number of years he held the reins most successfully at this factory, when he was invited to join the Dairying Divi- ' sioii, where his tact and ability have been of the greatest value. His appoint- . incut is a decidedly good one, and we . think the Commissioner is to be congratulated on the choice made.

Jersey breeders claim that if one has a head of thirty cows giving aa'averago annual - return of 1801bs. of butterfat, the daughters of these cows by a good Jersey bull will produce at least 401bs. per yea r more than their mothers, and that, assuming butter-fat to be worth Is per lb., thirty heifers would produce £OO more than their dams in one season; they would also be worth more to breed from than their dams, each generation showing improved returns. In these days when one hears so much of the advantages j»l Australian farming as compared with New Zealand it is refreshing to come across an instance of the effect of capable management and knowledge (says the Palmerstou Standard). During the past week Mr. D.

Howie, of l'ohangina, has shorn a line of 4-tooth Komney-Lincoln cross ewes, which have not only an average of II J / 2 lbs. of wool, but have also lib' per cent, of lambs. The weight of wool is a record for tile Valley, and perhaps a much wider area, whilst the percentage of lambs is also very much higher thaa the average this season.