FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 186, 10 September 1909, Page 1

FARM AND DAIRY.

BUTTJiJi I'll ICES.

BUYERS BA'IKiAIMXO 1 ; 01! LOW LEVELS. Bargaining for dair" produce outpu f s this season is having' a v;::;rnlur .iicgiiining. The wide guli" sejuiiici.i., buyers' and sellers in tlieir ideas of values 's almost unprecedented. Factory dilators are asking about ! Id per pound--which is scarcely anything below ast season's abnormal prices, Tlicv seem (says a Wellington p«i>er) to' Und it | hard to get the delightful taste „i last; season's figures out of their nioutii. .1 Possibly the high price which has li vnj ruling on the local markets this win! r| has given their attitude some sort of warrant, for while merchants' "were

isking 12% per pound from tile grocers, it was scarcely consistent to ask the factory authorities to quote 10</,<l. There is no dotilft tliat butter has been kqit. dear in Wellington this winter longer than was good for tlie merchant's interest. The local price has now 'been reduced by Id per pound, so that the grocer buys the dearest brands' at ll'/VI and sells at 13d. The reduction began yesterday. Possibly the reduction was decided oir for the purpose of correcting aay "bloated" ideas of values t'lmt. may exist 111 the. factory districts, but in any case it could scarcely have been" resisted much longer, in the face of the levels' of prices in England. The incident of fourteen bargainers for butter waiting on a factory at Cam bridge and failing to do any business because they failed to reach the reserve price, will probably be repeated in most of the dairying districts in the next few weeks. While factory directors are standing pretty solid' for about lid, buyers are confining their task to .fractious in the vicinity of lfld, or. in special eases', JO%d. Neither party seems in any hurry to bridge the gap. No doubt buyers who lost money (as most of them secin; to have done) last season will try to work on a margin that will wipe oIY the old score if possible. Thne firms are mentioned as having caused the excessive rise in prices' last season, and of these three, two are not now operating. The interests of the third, no doubt, will dictate moderation, in order to recoup the losses they incurred in common with other firms. '

j On tiic whole, both parties avc "plav'Mo waiting game. 5 And perhaps is tile best policy for the moment. Sellers may gradually realise that the prospects' are not what lliev were twelve months ago, and buyers mil" succeed in realising that butter at Home is promising to recover slignrly from the deeu descent it made on the Home market some months ago. If no such mutual concession should occur, it may. become an extensive consigning season.' And in view of everything it does look at the present moment as if that might, perhaps, after all, be the best thing.

Generally speaking, !hull calves are meeting with the usual fate in Soiit'i Taranaki's great dairying district—;> knock on the head soon after birth anil this occurs not only wliere tile herd is of medium quality, but also with the progeny of very good cows, male calves only being kept for breeding purposes. The cause is perhaps not s'o -much that rearing calves 011 a dairy farm entails a good' deal of additional worry and work, but that most dairy farms are stoc'-cd closely enough already, and .keeping tllese calves would only aggravate the winter feeding problem.—Hawera. Star.

Record lamibing percentages seem as sured on Ilawera. district's sheep farms. There are few ewes without one or mors lain lis at foot, the seas'on proving par ticiilarlv favourable. Mortality, both among ewes and lambs, up to the uresi'iit time, lias been very slight. \Vii"r, the. docking takes place some interesting figures may be expected. > Tlawera district is establishing an enviable reputation in the mntier ol supplying tile right stamp of draught horses for Australian ici|uiremcnts, anil locally bred horses have lately brought high prices in the Melbourne market (says the Star). Quite a number \vn= pineliased at last week's fair in Ilawera with a view of their being sent to Australia.. Among others who have 'e centlv ji'ined the ranks of the exporters of this class of horsv-s is Mr. W. Gadsbv, of Ilawera.

The manager of the Kaupokoiiui Factory made some, interesting remarks at tin- annual meeting on Monday. He said that if milk were cooVd properly the extra price suppliers would get would compensate them for the outlay in installing plants. He drew attention to the fact that last season there warf quite it number of complaints about the ti'-l. and asked if it was reasonable to assume tlitit a man's test went up because of having made complaints to the manager. (A shareholder remarked that when a supplier's test went from 4.2 to :t.(i and them hack to 3.! l in one month it was' only right that some explanation should lie given.) Tu a case of that sort the manager said lie made sure that his test was accurate. Speaking collectively to the, suppliers, lie said there was the practice of adding water to the milk, and tliey knew as well as he did that water was added to the milk last year. This was bad business, and he would ask them to discontinue it. He did not want water in the .mil';. The water lowered the test, and it did not add to the keeping qualities. IV branch factory malingers had all been instructed in the use of the lactometer, and samples of each supplier's milkwould be tested for water. It was 1 nefarious practice, and should be put a «top to. lie would recommend the directors to prosecute any supplier wno brought milk to the factories containing water. *'W3l

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Pallid, thin, and passing weal;, Shivering in the cold wind bleak, Coughing (ill he scarce can speak, This is man without it! Laughing at each cough and cold, What isTthis that makes him bold? StufT lliat's worth its weight in gold— Woods' Peppermint Cure-^-don't doubt it. 3