FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 273, 24 December 1909, Page 1

FARM AND DAIRY.

Over 1000 cases of cheese are arriving daily at the Patea grading works. The T. ii. Joll Dairy Coin]);; n\* has I just paid out to suppliers the sum ot £II,OOO for November month's operations'. Cheese manufactured during the month totalled 310 tons. An example of the dairying work done in the Feilding district (says iiie Dominion correspondent) is given by Messrs. Robinson and Won, of Kimbolton Road, who milked 09 cows last montli for 24021b milk daily on a 3.0!) test. Three hands did the milking. ill'. Sydney Williamson, whose; property in the Gisborne district was bought by the Government, lias purchased Mrs. Troutlreak's property of 10,000 acres at Eskdalc, ten miles from Xapier. It is stated that Mr. Williamson intends cutting this up. The prospects of the proposed bacon factory at Manaia received some attention at a meeting at the Oturi factory last week. All present were of opinion that the factory would have a splendid life in front of it if properly managed, and would have a monopoly of the trade. It was said that the company was thought so good as to encourage £BOO from two men alone. It was reckoned that the factory would be established at either Patea or Wanganui. l J atea was the favored port. A Masterton dairyman has discovered what he asserts to be a certain cure for contagious mammitis. Two of his own cows that were suffering from it have been completely cured, and so certain is lib that the remedy is all that he claims for it that he will undertake to cure free of charge any cows that may be submitted to him for treatment. The treatment, he states, is as rapid in its effects as it is simple and effective. Should the cure turn out to be all that he claims for it, he will have made a discovery that will he almost invaluable and which will be hailed with general satisfaction by all dairy farmers. Exceptional returns (says the Masterton correspondent of the Wellington Post) have been received from a crop of oats harvested on tho property €■ Mr. J. Wingate, Masterton. The field was divided into two parts, the seed in one portion being treated by nitrobacterine before sowing, and tie other portion just as it made its appearance above the ground. The part treated after having made a month's growth made slightly better progress, but the average yield over the whole area was close on eighty bushels per acre. This year has teen a good shearing year in South Taranaki. A well-known Taiporohenui farmer has shorn 900 crossbred ewes, the fleeces of whie.i averaged 9'/ 2 lb. In addition he secured 98 per cent, of lambs. For tne first time in his farming operations he has decided this year to sell his wool in Wellington, saying that if he can get B>/ 2 d in New Zealand it would be better than receiving 9y s d at Home,—Star, A sudden drop in the prices paid for pigs has caused some consternation among Taranaki dairy farmers (says the Hawera Star). In view of bacon selling at lOd and even Is per Hi, it makes some farmers wonder where the difference between the 2%d they get and the prices mentioned goes to. There is a big scheme in hand (that of buying out the Diraock firm) and a good deal of talk about co-operation—which the farmer quickly forgets when there is an extra farthing obtainable elsewhere. There are some excellent fields ot barley and oat crops to be seen on the Waimate Plains. Mr. T. W. Wells has a paddock of seventy acres of oats estimated to yield a hundred bushels to the acre. But it is a matter of uncertainty whether it will be possible to cut the crop. The heavy heads have weighed down the straw, and the fine crop is' lying flatly on the ground. ■ A crop of barley should give about eighty bushels to the acre.—Witness. The only remarks of any censequence made during the discussion in the House on the Estimates of the Department of Agriculture were those of the young Maori member, Dr. Buck, in appealing for some technical instruction for the members of his race who desired to till their own soil. He declared that the best education for country people was not that given by the universities; it was a practical education in regard to their calling which would best set j tliem up in tho battle of life. There was a growing desire on the part of the native people to get on their lands and work them. The old idea of sticking to the land because it waß ancestral land was passing away. The Maoris realised their responsibilities, and were willing to take on the burden of citizenship. They lived, however, under certain disabilities. They had not the advantages Europeans had enjoyed for generations. They were starting at the bottom of , the ladder, and wanted such assistance as the inspectors of the Department ; could give them. He concluded by ex- ! pressing the hope that the Government ■ would carry out the promise made hy | Mr. McXab to assist the Maori to > carry out his laudable desire.