FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

TIPS FOR THE DAIRYMAN. 1 (1) Sell off your non-breeding, nonproducing .cows in the herd. (2) eGt to know, if you can improve upon any individual cow. ' (3) Form a cow-testing association. (4) Keep every cow's quantity and quality for future reference. (5) Know what each cow's profit is weekly, monthly, and yearly. (6) Know if your cows are 'being milked dry. (7) Know if the cows are giving their full quantity, and if not, why not. (8) Know if you are supplying more milk than your neighbor. (9) Insist that every cow brought into the shed shall be guaranteed to come up to a certain standard of production. (10) Plan your feeding operations months in advance. (11) Compare with your neighbors, to see whose are the most profitable cows. * (12) Commence to make more money by inaugurating an association. I

The following figures of ,the year's working of the Makahu, Cooperative Dairy Co. are contained in the annual report to foe presented to a meeting of shareholders on September 0, the figures in parentheses 'being those for last year: —'Lbs milk 1y092,2i03 (891,049); test, 3.80 (3.98); butter-fat, 41,7371bs (35,5491b5); butter, 47,7371b9 (40;29ffibs); lbs milk to lbs butter, 22.87 (22.L1i); lbs butter to lib butter-fat, 1,14 .(1.13). The retiring directors are Messrs W. Manning and S. Martin.

A leading merchant pointed out last week (says the Sydney Mail of the 10th 'inst) that lately close on 4000 boxes of j butter had been going. into cold store each week, notwithstanding the fact that the price of ibutter Was too high for the grocers, who had to purchase but restricted quantities. He estimated that' there were now about 30,000 boxes put away in cold store. JSSew South Wales consumes about 5000 (boxes a week. During the last two or three weeks Sussex street stores were full of butter, and this large quantity was away 'in cold store, but still the prices were held up to. 122s per cwt. The neighboring States watch prices here keenly, and this is the highest market in the iCommonwe'alth. tLast week Brisbane shippers sent along 200 boxes, and Victoria 300. New "South Wales was importing butter while it had more tlian.flve times as much as it could do with in the State. "This shows," said this gentleman, "that .the local market authorities are simply forking the market for their own benefit. The small but- j ter factory has to pay the expenses. En-! deavors are being made to arrange the price so that/ the buyes in London can pay the same price for Australian butter as the retailer does here." I

Mr. Bayliss (Director of Experimental Work in the Agricultural Department) stated at the Provincial Conference in Aucklandthat it had become the fashion to speak of the "poor North.' One thing he would impress on Northern farmers—they always had'the great advantage -of climate oyer the Southerners. They could make soil, but they could not make climate.

The grass in the Masterton district just now is said to ibe so plentiful that the prospects for the coming season for dairymen appear to be more than usually rosy. Indications are that there will be a large increase in the milk supply at •the local factory. I '... ■ The freezing works in Southland are now slack. The s.s. Riniutaka took away some 23yOW carcases lately, and the fact that the seaso* is practically over, and that there ia no killing to speak of 'being carried ousW (says the News) left the with toy no means extensive stocks on hand. The shipments by the Rimutaka comprised—Bluff Mataura 7000, and Ocean Beach 6000 carcases.

High meat prices are world-wide condi-1 tions that confront consumers in Europe, as well as America. The principal"! cause is the declension, per capita of food I animals to the population of the world. I The breaking-up of the great ■ Western i and Southern cattle ranches, where were herded millions of cattle and sheep, has abnormally, decreased the area of cheap live stock production. The percentage of the food animals to population is decreasing, as the land cultivated to wheat and corn is paying larger >dividends than when devoted to animal industry. The general demand for the better cuts of meat naturally advances prices, and with the general resources of consumers well ■equipped to pay higlh prices, cheap meat products appear a distant problem of realisation.