FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 220, 22 October 1909, Page 1

FARM AND DAIRY.

; The business ui the Egmont Box Company ilias expiimlfd with wonderful lapulity. A few years agu il turned out about 7000 boxes per annum, while it the present tamo the lui.iunl output oi boxes totals about 2Do,i>(iu. In u letter to the writer just to hand, Mr. (,'. Wrislierg, well known to North Island dairymen, says there has he a no su er at all in' Denmark; the winter hud started already (Seplemlr-i iitli). ill-. Wrislierg, who'was in Cop "i---liagen when he wrote, says lie expected to leave very shortly for Siberia, "the coining butter country of the world." Experts in the Home butter trade d - dare that the British public is now gettin 2 per cent, more water than th". did before the .passing of the Act, Which lixeil the legal limit of moisture in but ter at Hi per cent., anil are, therefore, paying about, £IO,OOO weekly more toi water than tliey did. Before a legal limit for moisture was lixed butter-niake-s and blenders, it is contended, kept well within the bounds of safety, but now they deliberately work as close to the limit of l(i per cent, as they can. Foimerly good ordinary butter seldom or never contained more than 11 or 12 per cent, of water. Sixteen per cent, "was fixed by the Board of Agrioulture as t'he maximum limit, and forthwith the water content of butter has risen.

| A supplier to the Kapuni Factory is sending in 33201b of milk daily from 90 cows—machine milked.

For the month of September the Balance Co-op., D.C. dealt with 02,7031b of butter-fat, against 4f>,!1041b for the corresponding period of last year. The Greytown cheese factory is receiving about 40 gallons a day more than it did at the corresponding date of last year, the total daily supply being nearly 1100 gallons. 'Jllie dairying industry is scarcely touched in Argentina yet, says an Argentina correspondent of the Christchurch Press, and no country that I have ever seen is more adapted for that industry, as its rich lands 1 , easily cultivited, winter fodder, and fairly cheap labour furnish every requisite. The s'heep industry of Argentina, except in the extreme South, is not an attractive occupation. Firstly, the land is coo rich, and the .paddocks too large. The Latin race are too indolent to give t proper attention, and the diseases arr 100 numerous and continuous. Scab for which as many as Ave annual dippirn." are necesairv even to keep it in cberk. foot-rot, fluke, and. most u> stnict.ive of all, lung-worm, are enemies that make any other branch of fanning or grazing more attractive and profitable. Mr. J. T. Rowc (brother of Mr. A. Rowc, of "Waitara), who has been maun jre r of the Oruru Dairy Co., in the May of Islands, and who lias been appointed to the management of the Huiakania dairy factory, Tarauaki, was given a "farewell" by the residents at Pcria the other evening, lie was presented with a gold watch and chain, and Mrs. Rowc was given a set of solid silver spoons and forks. The chairman of the gathering paid a high tribute of praise to Mr liowi as a faithful and competent servant of of the company for seven years, and said •he district was losing as good a man socially as the company was a manager. BREVITE!?. There is no better business than dairy ing. A sovereign antidote for disease of a') kinds is cleanliness.

r'cu dairy-farmers really understand what good ventilation means. There has lieen almost a steady increase in prices of dairy products for •20 years.

The use of milk for food is incrcaisiflg at a good deal faster rate than the pop ulation.

Now that people have acquired a taste for better milk, they will not bi willing to do without it. There has never been a backsliding of the price of milk. It brings a littU uiorc i cy this year than it did two The London Country Life says the ia•crease in the consumption of milk in mat great city in the last 12 years'is ever 41) per cent. it is a fact that the demand lor mik butter and cheese is increasing fastu than cows', and that prices are contin ually advancing. There has never been an over-supply of milk, butter or cheese. Most of us can remember when all bhese produces wer uch cheaper than they arc now. There is probably nothing better for starling lucerne than wood allies. Ashes contain both lime and potash, with mor; or less phosphorus. All these the soil needs.

The »rt cif llio breeder ami tlmt of the feeder ('ireli must «lip|jl«iiifiit tin other, but tlie former is the, I'umlamcii till One, lljlllll which till' win* SYSteIJ of live-stock husbandry must depend.

THo question is often asked how many cows a certain number of acres w.il support. liy the uuc's'tion is meant that, the entire energy of tAc farm !<• to liu devoted to raisin;!; food for tie dairy cow.

3?mil air is from 10 to 20 per celt, heavier than pure air. The only system of ventilation ill t)he dairy that is wort.i the name will admit pure air from outdoors anil draw oil' the foul air from near the llonr.

Brood sows should always have sufficient nutritious -food to keep them in good condition. At farrowing time thi sow should not be too fat. If she hii« had plentv of exercise and is in fan condition she will lie better prepared to cure for her offspring. Sows should lie in good condition, biu not too fill. Orass, rape, or oats 1. necessary to keep them in good order. When within a few days of farrowing tiliev should be penned lip and fed lightly. ' Clean pens and fresh straw daily are absolutely necessary.

Phosphoric acid is found ill "'cry part of plants, but. accumulate more especially in the seed. It is also the principal constituent, in the bone formation of man and animals, and where jr is wanting in (lie soil plants grow fee ilv and animals do not thrive. ' The best bacon pigs arc those tint are well fed and rapidly grown, bill not fat Thcv have a well-proportioned amount of lean and fat meat, possess small liones. and look nice and sleek, and have good quality. The best bacon pig is the'one that is nice and smooth.