FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 103, 9 August 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

The big; Taieri and Peninsula Coi pany, of Dunedin, is going in for pa teurising skim milk and whey at i creameries and cheese factories. At the annual meeting of the Eltha: Dairy Company shareholders Mr. H. ] Sergei will move: "That this meeting < shareholders requests the directors < the company to introduce a voluntar scheme by which each cow's milk of suj pliers' herds may be weighed and teste by a competent man"; and also request those desirous of having their cows' re cords to hand in their names to th meeting. Writing on the pig industry, the El tham Argus says: "The prospects of es tablishing the pork industry on a satis factory footing in this district have bee: greatly enhanced by Mr. Cooper's discov ery of a cheap and simple method of pasj teurising skim milk." Something under 10 per cent, of th Chinese pigs imported into England wer condemned for tuberculosis. The prediction made about threi months ago that the price of beef woul< be ruling exceptionally high at tthii time of the year has been more than ful filled, says the Otago Daily Times. A; present beef is making as high as 35j per 1001b. The shortage of winter fod der has in a large measure been produc tive of this condition of affairs, but the high prices that were ruling on the Lon don market up to a few weeks ago Prospects then led to an exceptional!] brisk business springing up between Nev Zealand owners and the 'London buyers and the large consignment of frozen bee: shipped Home in fulfilment of the con tracts entered into have had the effect ,o: depleting the supply for local consump tion, On'the Taieri Plain at the present time, for instance, buyers state that there is not a single line of fat cattle to be had. Then, of course, the turnij blight has proved a most disturbing factor. Incidentally, buyers on the Lon don market have not reaped the profits that were anticipated. New Zealand sellers obtained contracts there at most satisfactory prices, but the Home market has dropped, but' those operating there must have experienced heavy Ipsses. • The manufacture of margarine is apparently a money-making business. A dividend of ,25 per cent, for the past six months' operations has just been paid by Van Ben Beighs, the big Home manufacturers of the butter substitute.