FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 292, 4 December 1908, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

At a meeting of the Palmerston A. and e. Association on Tuesday Mr. Lancaster mentioned the report that had appeared in a X eW Plymouth paper In connection with the sale of Messrs. loruwall and Griffiths' sale of Jersey cows to the effect that Grannie's Girl hail contracted some complaint at the I Falmerston show. The complaint, stated ! Mr Lancaster, was apparently man.- ,' mit s, but they had plenty of evidence to .now that the epw had been well tieated, and that there was iiotlii,,.I>, >rth. .She was in th, pink of „,„. U ion when she was taken over, and it',,, f 10 " 1P f 0 "' U,e j "^ e ' xv "" kl f cll she lett Mr. Sutherland', paddock again. I Mr.Vlctrea said he. was nmch interested m the cow, and as he had never seen hei, went m with Mr. Cornwall to ev

p-mmc her elosely. He made a close i„wr«„ u° hOT ' aml fu,l " a nothina wrong He considered that it was not If,i °, !" ake a state ™»t of the kind that had been circulated, and a thorough u\estigat.on should be made covering the.,period during which the cow was in Palmerston North. Mr. Sutherland nt „ , n V f, ry great cale had b <*" | ho did the milking, and he washed his *, " f " r t """king each cow. It was that ,f the cow had contracted anj complaint m Palmerston North she had done so while in charge of Mr. Cornell, as he liad milked her twice before she was taken away. It was finally decided that Messrs. Cornwall and Griffiths be written to and asked if they still maintain the charge, and if not that they, make a public retraction..falmerston Standard. I

It is necessary to explain that at the sale in question Mr. Griffiths, prior to Grannie's Girl being put up, in accounting for the champioa animal's poor condition, said that the cow came back from Pabaerston suffering from eowpox, contracted from one of the other cows or else it was brought about by the change in climate. In conversation with us last evening, Mr. Griffiths said I that he had no desire to east any relief - tion upon the management of the Palaucrston show or do anything that would -interfere with the success of future milking contests. All the officials were particularly kind and did everything possible for him. At the same time he felt that in future contests every cow entered should first lie examined by a vet. Before his cow took ill the precaution had suggested itself to him, and he had purposed making the suggestion to the officials.

A statutory meeting of the shareholders of the T. L. JoU Dairy Company was held at Kapuni on Wednesday, and was largely attended. The following were declared duly elected as directors: Messrs. J. B. Murdoch, T. Walsh J. A. McAllum, J. Bailey, Z. Tiplady, A. E. Nicholas, W. Johnstone (Okaiawa), J. Smith (Otakeho), J. S. Pearce (Kapuni), Blomfield (Mangawhero), and Buxton ! (Auroa). The meeting proved to be of a conversational kind, but several questions of interest were discussed in good spirit. Mr. Marx asked if the meeting was willing to allow him to remain on the directorate as Mrs. Joll's nominee, and it was unanimously decided that he should remain on the directorate. At a directors' meeting held subsequently Mr. J. B. Murdoch was elected chairman.— Star.

"What of the present season?" asked a pressman of a Wairarapa farmer. "Man," was the reply, "it is one of the best I can remember, and I have been here 25 years. The cows are giving large yields, lambs are fattening, and the crops, both hay and grain, are doing excellently. We are in for one of the best possible seasons."

Very few dairymen in Australia, and not many more in New Zealand, where •the climate is milder, rug their cows in the winter. One fanner in Victoria is reported to have tried the rug this winter, with extraordinary results. He first rugged one cow, and was so surprised at the result that he had to go over the tests again and again before he could believe it. His books now show that whereas the cost of his butter 'n winter without nigs amounted to lid a pound, with rugs it had been reduced to Cd.