FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 84, 18 July 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY

WINTER DAIRYING. SIGNIFICANCE OF HOME ADVICE. The report of the departmental committee on the Irish butter industry, which, by the way, referred in flattering terms to the New Zealand system of grading produce, contains some advice to Irish dairy farmers which is not without signficance in this country. This is that they should go in for winter dairying. In the course of the recent report the committee says it has been struck with the irregularity of Irish butter, due principally to the absence of winter dairying. This, it considers, has been most harmful to the industry. It causes customers to purchase foreign, colonial and other butters in the winter months and re-sell these without giving any indication that they arc not of Trish origin. Winter dairying would not only do away with the need for this practice, but would'also promote the uniformity of quality which the committee has found to be" such an important requirement from a trade point of view. This recommendation is obviously of some moment to the New Zealand milk producers. Winter dairying would not only do away with the need for this practice, but would also promote the uniformity of quality which the committee has found to be such an important requirement from a trade point of view. This recommendation is obviously of some moment to New Zealand milk producers. Winter dairying in Ireland on anything like a large scale would necessarily mean a restriction of the field for New Zealand butter on English winter markets, while it would entirely end the demand on Irish markets, and this is not inconsiderable at the present moment. If butter production is to become an all-the-year-round business in the northern hemisphere, the best way to meet the new condition of things would be for New Zealand to adopt the same principle. • This, however, is a matter for future consideration.—N.Z. Times.

Writes the South Taranaki correspondent of the Wellington Times.—Gambling in land, although legitimate and quite distinct from any provisions of the Gaming Act, has been going on apace here. One could almost count on the fingers of one's hands those who have not turned over their homesteads within the last twenty years. Very few buy for permanency, for the history of the past has been up-grade prices, cheap mousy and saleable produce along with good administration, being the ruling factors. There are very few who have made money by products from the farm. The rise in the value of land 1 is ' the means by which most of what are called farmers make money nowadays. Take, for instance, a block of lan-4 being put on the market, no matter how distant. There you will find men from all quarters, and moneyed men at that, who are eager to participate,, be it by ballot or sale, irrespective of tenure. Of course the moneyed individual prefers the freehold, and you will hear him rail against the Government for trying to protect those with small means. The old gag that the State demands too big a slice on land sales lias no effect. It is just' possible if the charges were trebled it would not do any harm. The lawyer element so prominent in our Parliamentary representation would, no doivii, be against anything like this, because the recurring sales mean a perpetual harvest to him.

Sales of dairy stock in this locality have been plentiful recently, and large prices are the order of the day. It is astonishing the prices Jerseys bring. Thirty and forty pounds for pedigree animals without any individual returns seems strange. How long will it be before each cow is sold on the amount of butter-fat she produces? This, to my way of thinking, is the only commercial way of arriving at her worth. There are duffers in Jerseys as well as other breeds. All is not gold that glitters, and a Jersey pedigree or a Jersey color should be no credential of supremacy. Young cattle are in keen demand, and dealers are buying wherever possible to lift a couple of months ahead, when the turnips are finished.