FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 191, 16 September 1909, Page 1

FARM AND DAIRY.

It is. generally considered that the lambing m the Masterton district this season will be the best that Ims beta experienced for many years. On Mr. Inkstcr's farm, Xormanby, lambing'percentages promise to lie very high. There are a good many ewes wi„h two lambs at foot. One ewe bad three lambs (triplets are quite common throughout the district this season'', and another had lour. Two of the huler were taken aivay from the mothOr, and have since died. Forty lambs from thirteen ewes does not (says the Star) suggest a reduction in the birth-rate—amongst sheep. Tint is a tally from .Mr. Currigan's place. The Oaks. '■Twelve lots of triplets/'' exclaimed a golfer, '•and"—hesitatingly —"a foursome!" A farmer at Muhorn (llawke's Bay) who was fortunate enough to get 11(1 per cent, of lambs (nearly \% lamhs to the ewe) docked them last week, dabbing the wounds with sheep dip. fie found seventy of hid best lambs dead the next morning. A San Francisco company of ft reeks bus established u complete equipment for a dairy and cheese factory, which will consume the milk of 8000 sheep in the manufacture of a special variety of cheese. -Mr. James Grant, the well • known draught horse breeder of Taranaki, has secured in the South a well-br.'d draught colt, liannir Again, iiv llanci.r out of Hello, by Herd Laddie.' He was bred by Mr. J. lllack, of Itoyal Hum, Southland. A recent bulletin of the New York Experiment Sladion urges the adoption of the fat test as the basis for paying for milk at all choose factories. Owners of cows producing milk low iu fat w'll suffer some reduction in dividends fro.n the adoption of the system, but the laets -Ifhd figures given prove that, quality and quantity of cheese both considered, the simple fat test gives 'h? fairest measure of the value of the milk for producing cheese. The colonial butler trade in Lo-.idon was practically at a standstill all Ju'y. The prospects for the new season were decidedly good. The stocks in cold store wore _ virtually cleared, and there was not likely to be any old butter on hand when the new make arrives from Austi'iiTa. Importers generally antieip-nc a continuance of the present firmness, though much, of course, depends upon the Herman yield. If this is moderate, as liiost people expect, Germany will have to take a large quantity of Siberian butter, wliieli would otherwise come on to the British markets. Whatever happens, however, in flermany, .t is certain there will be n o old stocks .n London worth talking about, and so the new Australasian butters ought to meet an excellent market.