FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 331, 25 January 1909, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

Last week the Midhirst Dairy Co. paid out £BBOO to suppliers for December milk.

Thus an exchange:—New Zealand cheese producers "tipped the winning horse" this season. One Home firm, which has made heavy purchase contracts, stands to lose £40,000, and the total loss on the Dominion output, unless prices recover, cannot be less than £IOO,OOO. The many friends of Mr. J. A. Kinsella, formerly Dairy Commissioner of this country, will he glad to know that he is doing excellent work as chief dairy expert to tho West Australian Government. One phase of his activity the delivering of lecturettes at agricultural shows. Reports of these in Westraiain papers show that 34r. Kinsella. is at his best form. In private communications to his friends in this country Mr. Kinsella speaks in very hopeful terms of hia work in the West. He has mapped out a stiff programme of work, and as carrying it out with his old-time energy. Since the rigid inspection entailed by the new regulations bus come into force (says an exchange) the Veterinary Department has been condemning pigs at the bacon factory at Woodville at the rate of nearly 100 <a week. Forty-one were condemned on Wednesday week. 57 on the previous Friday, and 38 up to 2 o'clock on Friday last.

COMfINO COMPETITION. Speaking of the competition Australasian butter producers will be called upon to face in the future, by reason of refrigeration, Mr. G. S. Thomson, formerly Chief Dairy Expert of Queensland, says:— "Refrigeration is going to plav a great part in bringing European countries into open competition with Australasian dairy produce in the British market. A day will come when dairying will boom on the Continent, and the enormous tracts of magnificent country in the Balkans will be developed into dairy farms. The example of Hungary will be followed by other States in Central Europe in the organisation of .agriculture, and T can assure you that no country in the world has a finer system than Hungary. Siberia is at tracting more attention than- ever, and Russia is now realising the value of that part of its possesions for dairy farmers. The Department of Agriculture of Hungary has been a revelation to me. You have no conception of what magnificent work they arc doing under the most complete organisation I have ever known. Rhodesia is pushing things along, and in London a very attractive department has l»een opened where visitors can go and spend nn interesting hour. Professor Wallace, of Edinburgh University Chair of Agriculture, has lately returned from a tour of Rhodesia, and ihe speaks in the most glowing terms of the country for agricultural and dairying purposes. Britons are now going out to Rhodesia, and T believe n big effort is to be made to fcvelop its resources."