FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 297, 10 December 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

SIBERIAN JSUU'KU I'OUUlNti UNTO tililiAT BMTAIN. The following null: from n Undon correspondent is appearing in Australian papers:—"; Siberian butler of the best quality is pouring into great Britain. Jt is generally expected that butter from tli.it country will in a lew years swamp the market, Refrigeration lias removed all the disadvantages of seasons. No countries in the Northern Hemisphere can store their produce and sell it in their oil seasons in competition wiih lliat irom Australia and New Seasons don't count now.'' There is undoubtedly a considerable element of truth in this, it only proves the soundness of the contention that if New Zealand producers are to make a continued success of their liulter industry they must all the time aim at quality.' There is always a demand fur choice butter. Second-grade qualities are too often in alu.jiduiuT.

If larmiuir is «« prolitiihlc at tliis end l!h ' '» of llii' filet Hint I lii' market is at ili<>" other cnil, a nil Unit liv.i' slock cannot 'lie sent, how much mure p'oliHiblc -li<itiJ<l it not. lie in the I nited Kingdom This i|ii,.stion is asked by I lie I'll linersio]j Times, which iroes "II t» -:l.v: "We usually hear «Ik.ut"<!.■pre.ssion among Ihe farmers of i lie old Country ami the cas-'-s in which farmers go back Irom Mij l (-olonies or America and take to farming in the Old Countrv lire compartitively rare, Our higlievpiiecd lauds arc. we lielieve, fetching just as much, it not .more, than British bum laniks, while labor is much less there. This is altogether apart from the fact that a great area- of the British Isles is locked up for the rich mini's pleasure. A little, while ago we pulilislieil an inlerview with a young Knglisli farmer who, having visited North and South, America, Australia, South Africa, and this country with the idea <>f settling down in one or other of those countries, Ind come to the conclusion that, taking into consideration the prices lie was asked for land there, and some of the drawbacks die noted' elsewhere, lie would do better to go back and take up a farin in the Old Und. Ami that ■lie has since done. Vet the strange thiing is that farming does not 'boom' there, and tlial the feeding of the people is left to tlie, farmers of the Antipodes."