FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 320, 21 February 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

DECLINING .MEAT SUPPLIES.

Pigs arc getting scarce and dear in the United States, as they are in England, and the subject was discussed at the recent annual convention of the American Packers' Association at Chicago, when it was pointed out that the 54,147,000 pigs' in the United States this year compared with 56,084,000 last year, while the average value per head had increased by just over 2s. Pigs were coming into the markets in shorter numbers and insufficient for the denied. At the same convention the price o* beef in the near future was also dU.ussed, the president declaring that this had become a very serious question. It might be, he said, that prices might drop slightly for a short time, as there had been some increase in the number of cattle Taised lately. This' boon to consumers woul'd not last long, however, for "unless many, many more cattle are grown there can be no hope of lower prices, and America may find itself an importer of meat very shortly." To the dry weather which was experienced in January may be attributed the decrease in some of the dairy factory outputs for that month, which are less than for the corresponding period of 1909. The Normanby factory received 4*.1191b of butter-fat, as against 61,7101b for the same month last year. The pay outs' will be approximately £1879 as against £2154. The butterfat both in January 1909 and 1910 was at the rate of lOd per lb. IT must be remembered that Ararata factory were supplying this time last year. Mells will pay its suppliers for this month £1405 as compared with £1448 in January of twelve months ago. The quantity of butter-fat received was 33,7411b. For the corresponding month last year 34,7601b was' supplied. Suppliers will be paid at lOd per lb, being the same price as was given in January of 1909. Hawera Dairy Company's cheque for 1910 January supply will be £5282 as compared with £fioo7 in January of 1909. Butter - fat received totalled 120,7801b, which will be paid for at lOd per lb. In the corresponding month last year the amount supplied was 120,1441b, being paid for at the price of Is per lb.—Star. The Ayrshire and Shorthorn cross has been found an exceedingly good dairy animal. It is the practice of the scientific dairymen of the Old Country to milk : three times' a day. It is a fact which cannot be too often repeated that breed counts for more than food in the production of value in milk. Experts writing in the English papers give it as their opinion that a fair yield for a cow is not less than 600 gallons' per annum. Good milkers are always difficult to buy; the ones the dairyman is desirous of being rid of are those which do not yield satisfactorily. 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