FARM AND DAIRY.
In \ictoria dairy farmers have to pay Cd a cow towards the expense ox dairy inspection. In Xew Zealand the proposa'l to charge as a herd is being roundly condemned.
-Mr. H. F. Kolleston, British Trade Commissioner, who returned to Wellington from the South the other day, found an. optimistic tone prevalent in Southern commercial circles. The feed was splendid—in tact, superabundant iu some places; (he lambs were generally doing remarkably well; and the improvement in the price of wool had put everybody in good heart. Generally speaking, the business outlook in the South Island, so far as it came within the focus of •Mr. liolleston.'s view, was exceedingly bright, and a profit able and prolific sea. son was expected, liain was needed in some places, notably in Central Otago: hut the snowfall of last winter had not been an unmixed evil in places where it was more than usually heavy.
Mr "R. .1. Guthrie, the agricultural commissioner of the Sydney Mail, who recently returned from a tour of the world, delivered, al a complimentary dinner, some remarks on the dairying industry of Denmark. The principle of >elf-help and en-operation (said Mr Huthrie) prevailed throughout Denmark. Cream was all pasteurised before heing made into butter, and the producers did not wait for the Government to help them. Tiiev appointed their own inspectors, and obeyed Ihcir own rigid laws respecting honesty of dealing aiid quality of produce. Denmark was the greatest butter produeiig country in the | world. Siberia was second, and Austra-1 lia third. Danish butter was popular in eities like liirmingham and the north of I England because of its uniformity of quality. It was a paler butler tliaii tint exported from Australia, but it was always of the sime grade, and produced iu even qualities all the year round, and the people had become used to its flavour. The high colored and full-flav-oured Australian butler 1 had a great hold in Ixindon, and if there could be a regularity- of consignment throughout the year there was no question that (lie po|*ilarity of the Australian product would grow. The winter feeding of eat- [ tie in Denmark, the careful use of fodder, and the arrangements to time the calving for different seasons of the year, all made for continuity of supply. The Danish appliances were' not so far advanced as those used in Australia or Xew Zealand, hut the Dane was an immensely thorough and painstaking worker. s *»
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 289, 1 December 1908, Page 4
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410FARM AND DAIRY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 289, 1 December 1908, Page 4
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