FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 297, 25 January 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

<:;:r tlany factories hail t'aiiinjf-u:: in « heir supplies owing « lung oi ,!i V wcatuer iwrki., the liawer.i w- - < .->jiij.i,li'!i r. 1!io \\ eiiing._oa Times). A very Uiiu-,i;a! result wa"s the iail;„._ u; lw u '"(- •» 1 understand ■ a a >irv season t:ie supply oi' n;11K naturally decreases, hut the test shuubi lucrea-e i;i place o: decrease. Decrease. •:(.wevcr, h-.'.s beea t.'w ease !! roiiiiu. Lain oi late has lice;) plentiful, hence tne supply liais increased considerably and gooa cheques wd! result, Business appears to he fairly good but the al m.ghty dollar is Done '.oo plentiful. Tiiti dairying season .started ea v •. about August, and large e!ie<;:;cs ... been distributed; but the i:. .uon has 'been considerably curtail, a hv newlvinstalled farmers, who have only lately acquired their holdings with very little capital, buying their stock from the auctioneers upon paper, Hence the hale of their milk cheques go monthly to pay oil the stock account, and the cin-u-Jating medium becomes contracted. Many who have sold out their stock and leased their farms journeyed to tiie Home Country and visited'old associations and relatives at their leisure,

whilst their successors are working hard to make both ends meet. The stock guarantors' are protected, hut in.' tradespeople are not. Y> aitara Road dairy factory returns •for the period ended Ist December, 1909, show that 844,7041b of milk had been received, as against 784,431i1b for the 'previous December. The increase was 00,:5281b. Butter-fat produced amountou to 33.22211), as against 31,(jlSlb. an increase of 10041b/from which 3Ui)Blb of butter were manufactured, an increase of 2 tons 2ewt 431b. It required 21.011b of milk to make a .pound of commercial butter, whilst the average test was' 3.03. Suppliers received .1,1315 9s 3d for their milk, :is against £1314 2s Od for the previous T)eceml>er, being paid at the rate of o'/(,d for butter-fat this year, as •against lOd for December, 1008. The average amount of milk received weekly was iljS.O.jjlb, whilst for the month of 'November the average was 1(52,0831b. so that despite the dry spell the nviply lias more than maintained itself, a fact that suppliers should feel pleased over, more especially as many factories found a great drop in the month's total. *he North Taranaki Dairy Company had an 'increase of 59,1351b in their December supply, compared with that of November, the figures being 743,45'/H) lo.r -\o'vember and 502.G221b tor December.--Mail.

According to statistics' compiled by Dalgety and Co. for the Shaw, Savill. 'and Albion Company the exports of frozen meat from New Zealand last year are as follow (previous year in parentheses); Mutton, 100,405.5031!) (102574.0901b),• lamb. 100,.58*.7031b (01,125.7801b); beef, 53,800.4321b (38,103.4GG1b).