FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 189, 14 September 1909, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

. The i directors of the ilells Dairy Company on Friday decided to iustal a pasteurising plant at the Mokoia factory to deal with tile skim milk. A cable' Jias been sent Home for the necessary machinery. If the operations at Mokoia prove successful the pasteurisation scheme will be extended to the iWhakauiara factory.

Messrs. Adlara Bios., butchers, Blen heim, write to a contemporary:— "Lucerne growing is neglected in New Zealand, and should be taken up with much more vigour. We have bceu growing it now for 20 years, and therefore can speak from experience. Off one paddock we cut a crop of iinv of two tons to the acre, then a second crop for seed, which. we threshed '<out at 4001b per acre. Lucerne seed is now gelling at 9d to 10(1 per lb. In. addition to this we have wintered ten sheep to the acre on the same paddock. The seed is a splendid simple and eagerly sought after by seed merchants, being much larger than imported Englisa seed." 1 A numlber of Wairarapa small fanners (says the Post) suffered considerable loss this year through shipping fat lambs to the Home market on their y>wn account. In one instance, a farmer bought 800 lambs at 10s per head. They were fattened' off on good pastures, slaughtered and frozen at the [Wellington works, and shipped through n. Christchureh firm. The returns from fflie sale of the lamibs have just come to hand, with the result that the fanner finds that he has dropped just 2s per bead on them, taking skins and all into Consideration.