FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 128, 8 September 1910, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY

The Bay of Plenty Times -reports that Mr. Greentree, of Manaia, 'has purchased and taken possession of Mr. Bryan's IiOOO-aere farm at Te Puke. An expert in dairy produce matters informs the. Stratford Post that already this season Taranaki cheese factories-, representing 10,000 tons of cheese, have arranged to consign their output on a guarantee without recourse, which means that tlhose factories take no risks below a certain price, fixed at very nearly the selling price of the cheese. According to the trade in Southland, beef in the next few weeks will reach 40s per 1001 bs. The Southland Times mentions that a line of store steers that would in former years have brought £a to £5 10s per head the other day I realised £7 at a. clearing sale. j On Mr. K. Green's dairy farm at El-j derslie, near Branxton, a Jersey heifer, fifteen months old, which has never had | a calf, is (beinist milked twice a day, and ' each milking produces about a quart of milk, testing 4.6. But the Dungog nine-months-old .Tersiey, which gives lfi per cent, milk, is, says the Sydney Mail, a much greater wonder. It is asserted by Mr. D. G. Alpine, the Victorian Government vegetable pathologist,' that if potatoes infected with the spores of the Irish blight are heated to between ~l'2o and \l3O degrees Ffihr. all traces of blight will be destroyed, and it is proposed that all potatoes, in infected areas should be thus treated. It is proposed that, the Agricultural Department build a small travelling kiln nt a cost of about £2OO, and that an officer of the Department superintend the-cur-ing of potatoes in the furnace. The 'experiment miojht he worth trying ho e.