FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 100, 25 May 1909, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

THE ARAWA'S SHIPMENT. The Shaw-Savill steamer Amwa left Wellington port for London 011 Thursday iwith the following quantities of dairy produce:— 'Source. '/.-cwt, boxes'. Cases. Auckland .. .. 201 342 New Plymouth .. 11(1 1273 Patea .. •• 121 3274 Wellington .. 108 1543 . Lyttelton .. Diniedin ■ • . • Bluff ..

Tliu smallnctis of the quantity of butter exported is satisfactory (to consumers). in view of the increasing need of nil available butter for the local market. It is aho an evidence that butteiholders believe that good prices will rule in New Zealand this winter. Last season oyer 20,000 boxes of butter were exported from Xew Zealand during June, 1 but this is' balanced-by the iact that the ! April quantity of butter in store this i year wae over 20,000 .boxes less than the | quantity at the same period of last year. TIIE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. Mr. William Nelson, of Nelson Bros., Tomoana. Hawke's Bay, in a letter to the Poverty Bav Herald, remarks: —"Our steamer services are now too good, and we are getting our meat Home too quickly; the past season having been an exceptionally good one. the Home market is'absolutely congested by excessive rrivals on top of indifferent demand, resulting in an enormous loss to shippers. The remedy is storage at this end. We (NeUoii Bros.}, in our small way, have large storage in proportion to our killing capacity, and after January in each year we keep our stores as lull as we can, just leaving sufficient s'pace to enable killing to be carried on from steamer -o steamer. If every freezing company would do this, better prices at Home would result, and I offer the suggestion to your Farmers' Freezing Company that, in addition to increasing their killing facilities, they should also largely increase their storage capacity—that is, largely in proportion to their additional killing space. It is, of course, very pleasant to our meat away quickly and get the money for it. but'it would bo much more pleasant lo get au additional y.>d or Id per lb lor it by waiti.ig a little. [ would like to point out still nirtlier the evils of too rapid shipping. Hawke's Bay killing has been nominal since the end of April; thus in six mouth* practically all our stock has. been dealt with and nearly all of :t passed on to the Home market, and for the next six months the quantities going forward will be inappreciable, and it is easy to see that s'elling agents at Home find it impossible to do justice to the' eoiisiguments with such an appalling' want of uniformity in arrivals, thus proving storage .here to bo the only remedy, hi your district the killing fieason will last somewhat longer (though not long -enough), but had greater facilities for killing existed, no doubt the position would have been the same as'it is in Hawke's Bay."

"The suct'i'ss uf tlic milking-machine is | a factor which is assisting in «a most ■ marked way to make dairy-farming a | more congenial occupation." **aid <i Waiirarapa farmer in conversation with !»» I Age r eporter. "Wo intend to milk about ! one hundred and thirty caws next summer by machine, and from our oxpori-, ence 01 three years past, with herds of s'ixtv, eighty, and over a hundred, we; can testify to tho wonderful difference the presence of the machine on the farm lias made in the way of lightening labor, dispelling worry, and generally ameliorating the conditions of work. Handmilking is not to be compared with llie machines."

' The site for the proposed new freezing work* at Tokoinarn iiay, comprising about ninety acre-, ha* been surveyed, but to vest the till'/ of the land i:i the company legislation will be required, so the Hon. A. T. Ngata. a provisional director of the company, has- informed the J'overty Hay Herald. It is not anticipated that there will be any difficulty, the term* and conditions having been arranged between the native owners and the company. Legislation is required because the site comprise* untMinvd

nreue oi two subdivisions of tlie Tfuvhiti block. There aiv indications, lie added, that the Tolnga Bay fannei'ri, in view of reeent developments, Avill join with the Tukoinaru and Wmiapu fanners to push on the Tokomaru scheme. The greatest diflieulty, it is anticipated, will not be in raising the necessary capital, nor m providing proper facilities for shipment, nor in getting sullicicnt stock for freezing. but rather in obtaining labor such as -butchers and other skilled hands. No doubt, tlie lion, gentleman added, thie will be overcome in time. The appointment of Mr, Mi'tehell, of Wellington, the designer of the Nelson works, has, be understands', been made, and plans mid estimates will bu supplied to a meeting of directors at an early date.