FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 122, 22 June 1909, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY

SOUTHERX DAIRY PROSPECTS. ! COWS BEAU. < The prospects for dairying in South Canterbury continue to 'lie encouraging (says a Temuka corespondent), "?nd there is every indication that a #QQij price will be maintained tor butter-fat lor some time to come. That there are plenty of pcopl,. with faftli in the future of dairying has lieen plainly evinced at two recent sales .of dairy stock. The jnilking season is pr-nctjc#'".y pycr, and usually nearly dry cows at tfe geju-jn ot the year can hardly be given a'wV.VAt the sales' in question, lioWeyer. it seemed as if "buyers could hardly get in bids fast enough, and even two-tea ted scrubbers were taken away at prices which left very little change out of a five-pound note. Cows to calve in October fetched £fj' to £8 10s, and one realised the latter price which was not due to calve until December. At Xo. 2 sale not quite so many were submitted, but they wt>rn in splendid order. The larger proportion jws of Polled Angus' breed or cross, wljicji are not particularly esteemed as milker*., ft nJ ade no difference. People came'*" distance of ovtt thirty miles to that little safe 1 and, they took most of the stock away 4 : it& them, it would seem cither that there is a sca**% of milkers or that there are people' flvfco contemplate entering upon the dairying I#»jiicss and wish to make certain of eeeuriuj; jtjhp requisite' stock even if they have to' 4uU them for a time. .. T "

OUR MEAT EXPORTS. ''" ! uoxbox raj-Tray twk pro- ' VIXCES, It seems a mistake to continue sending sheep to London \vhi| ( . the stores! there are full (says "Rustieus" in the! Canterbury Times), but we have no other course. Once our lambs are fat they must go into the freezing chamber, and they have been coming forward in such numbers that it is impossible to store them in the Dominion, it is to be hoped that those at the head of the trade, both here and in England will use their best endeavors to get our meat on to the Continent, where an unlimited demand awaits it. '/' be United States, and also Canada, should \ w in a position to consume large quantities of our spare mutton. Their Hocks are l small comparatively, and their populations arc large and rapidy increasing. J-Ut it seems rather out <rf ph,ce'lo: speak of spreading our frozen imaton over the earth's surface when by cannot even get it spread over England inlhout first of all ending it .to London Sureiv it wwld pay to s lit direct to half-a-dozen «r more big ports in the Tnilcd Kmgdom.--p»r,ts which serve immense masses of iiK'nt-catim; people, instead of having our nwal piled up in London it would lie spread oyer England, and the cost of extra haHdlW would b" avoided. - |