FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 2 September 1910, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY

OAONUI DAIRY CO. The annual general meeting of the Oaonui Dairy Company was held in the Oaonui Hall on Saturday. There were 30 shareholders present, and Mr. J. C. O'Rorke, chairman of directors, presided.

The report read: —During the season i ended 30th June, 1910, 13,545,4901bs of milk have been received. Of this, 2,410,3Mbs have been manufactured into butter, producing 107,1461bs of commercial butter, giving the result of lib butter to 22-sibs milk, the average test being 3.746, and the over-run 14.4. The remaining 11,135,1801bs of milks were "manufactured into cheuse, producing 1,025,5031b3 of commercial cheese, giving a result of lib of cheese to lO.Slbs milk, and 2.401bs cheese to lib butterfat. Payments for butter-fat for the year averaged 10.31 d, and there is now a disclosed surplus of £940 10s Id to be dealt with. This only deals with cheese manufactured up td March 31, the perioa for which shipping contract was made. A further quantity of 130,7051bs was made after Ist April, which was shipped on open consignment and 5d per lb drawn against it. Account sales are ! not to hand for this, but as the market, has kept up there should .be a fair surplus on this account to be added to the amount shown above.

It was resolved, on the motion of the* chairman, that the surplus be dealt with as follows: —5 per cent, interest be paia on subscribed capital as al 30th June, l&'OO, £ISS 10s (id; 2 per cent, on year's supply bo, paid by way of .bonus, £435 IDs Od; write oil'"for depreciation £314; and cany forward the balance, £3B 0s Id. It' was resolved that any further surplus on balance of cheese Ironi last season be paid out. as bouus when received.

The following directors were elected; Mr. J. Roth'eyy for Kaluii Koftdj Mr. "Tiso'n, Ve-eleOtetl £oi* Arawhata "Road; Mr. R, P. Malsolm, for Oaonui.- For the remaining four vacancies the following were nominated:—Messrs. J C. O'Rorke, J. Young, T. J. Billing, J. Macfie, and G. Coonibe. A ballot was taken, which "suited in Messrs. O'Rorke, Young, Macfie, and Billing being elected. Mr, Brennan, the secretary, notified the meeting that owing to pressure of private business he would lie resigning the secretaryship in September. Mr. G. W. Rogers was re-elected auditor. Mr. J. C. O'Rorke was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year.—Opufla.ke Times:

KIVERDALE DAIRY CO. The Riverdale' Dairy Company has a credit bahviWe of £.ssß 7s Bd, after writing of £32 l' 7s~ ; 3d' foi* depreciation at the rate of 10 per' cent-.. It is proposed to make a further'' payment of one penny and one-eighth for' the butter-fat supplied within the lifcMbd August 1, 1909, to April 30, 1910,- absorbing £2817 4s 10s, also the payment' of interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum- on the fully paid-up shares, alusbribing.' £244 2s 3d, and it is proposed to 1 carry forward the balance of £47 Is 7d to the cr«Mt of next year's account. Payments for the season, including further payments, were: August to April (inclusive), 12% d; May, average payment .for the season, 12.005 d. There were manufactured 1,414,4001bs of cheese, as against 1,443,2771bs in the previous seasoiii, and 1'1!),1241ba of butter as against 04,450./ The average test during cheese-making was 3.772, and during but-ter-making 4.289, as against 3.844 and 4.345. The overrun was 16 per cent., as against 12.8 per cemt.

A conference of New Zealand beekeepers will take place in Wellington on the 10th and 17th inst. The Joll Co-operative Dairy Co. intends sterilising the whey at its cheese manufacturing centres. Six hundred steam or gasoline-hauled ploughs were at work in Canada during the preparation of the ground for seeding in April. Mr. E. L. Holmwood, formerly of Masterton, has purchased the property of Mr. W. A. Neale, at Taipui, near Lake Waikaremoana. The estate contains 4400 acres.

A new freezing company has been started in South Otago. The company, which has «. capital of £25,000, will establish works at Balclutha.

Southland sawmillers are "pushing" birch as the successor to white pine for butter-box and cheese crate making, but apart from the doubt as to whether birch has flavoring propensities it appears that its liability to warp is a drawback.

It is stated that the demand for beef cattle in the Wairarapa district has been very keen of late, large drafts having been sent to the South Island.

There are four less creameries (189) in the Dominion than there were kist year, but there are 42 more factories (194). The number of private butter dairies is 45 less, and the number of private cheese dairies 17 less. There are 23 less packing houses.

•In the course of an interesting address before a numiber of farmers at Masterton on Saturday last. Mr. W. G. Taylor, M.R.C.V.S., a member of the staff of the Chief Veterinarian, stated that tuberculosis in pigs was due to their being fed with milk or whey from tuberculous cows. If the disease were to be stamped out it would be necessary to pasteurise all milk given to pigs. As an illustration of the value of pasteurisation Mr. Taylor said the <case of three lots of pigs had come under his own personal notice, in one lot sixty per cent, of the pigs had tuberculosis, in another lot fifty per cent., and) in the remaining lot every pig was suffering from the disease. The breeder then adopted pasteurisation, with the satisfactory result that of the next lot of pigs sent to the abattoir by him only 3 per cent, were affected. With regard to mamniitis in cows, Mr. Taylor stated that at present all he could recommend farmers to do with regard to cows suffering from mammitis was to isolate the animals and fatten them for selling; mamniitis did not affect the meat.of the cow in any way. He advised farmers not to offer diseased cows at auction. Thouah mammitis had not yet been scheduled as a contagious disease, it was spreading rapidly and was going to cause dairy farmers considerable trouble. He was of opinion that if it were not ehecned it would seriously, interfere with the progress of the dairy industry. As' showing how contagious the disease is, Mr. Taylor stated that a Taranaki dairy farmer had a herd of sixty cows, thirty-five suffering from mammitis. The farmer replaced these with another sixty ,and thirty of these contracted the disea.se.