FARM AND DAIRY
That there is nioncy in eggs is demonstrated by the fact that the Master tou Egg Circle has paid out £42 ta suppliers during the past fortnight. For the past fourteen weeks, total payments have amounted to £2o'±. All over the Waimate (South) county tlie crops are coming through the ground evenly. In some cases, however, they had to be turned in. There have been a succession of frosts, and the result is seen already in the crumbling | furrows. Chaff-cutting is now in full swing. The South Rakaia Road Board has made some very interesting experiments in connection with weed eradication by means of oxide of iron. The method has applied in some of the water channels in Rakaia township, and appears to be very successful.
The Pihama Co-operative Dairy Company now have a well equipped and up-to-date butter factory. Since last season two combined churns and ibutter-workers have been installed and at the present time the manager (Mr. J. O'Dea) is installing a cream pasteurising plant. That the company (has been so successful in reference to the butter manufactured prior to the introduction of the latest machinery inventions is sound evidence as to the ability of the manager, Mr. O'Dea, who is not to enjoy the advantage of carrying on the factory with /better appliances, as he joins the dairy division staff about September 15. His successor at Pihama is Mr. E. Reeves, butter-maker at Mangatoki dairy factory. At the Pihama factory the output is now twenty-two boxes of butter per day.—Star. On Tuesday afternoon (says the Opunake Times) the town presented quite an animated appearance owing to the number of butter and cheese buyers who were here to interview the directors of the Pihama, Opunake and Oaonui dairy companies re the coming season's outputs. From offers made, which represent the opinions of those engaged in the business in London, there would appear to be bright prospects ahead for the dairy industry for the coming season. The outputs of butter could have been sold at which'is the highest price that has yet 'been offered, and was a very tempting one to refuse. However, the three factories decided on consigning and taking the chance of the market. Pihama placed their output with Messrs J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd.; Oaonui placed theirs with Messrs Collet and Co., who handled their cheese last season; and Opunake gave theirs again to Messrs Lonsdale and Co., who did so well for them last year. It is to be hoped that anticipations will d)e realised, and that our dairy farmers will reap a rich harvest, to "compensate for their toil and high prices of dairy stock which they now have to pay to keep their 'herds full.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 126, 6 September 1910, Page 3
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456FARM AND DAIRY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 126, 6 September 1910, Page 3
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