FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 149, 3 October 1910, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY

INGLEWOOD BACON COMPANY. | The eleventh annual report of the Inglewood Co-operative Bacon Curing Co., ! Ltd., for the past year, to be laid before : the annual meeting of shareholders is as follows:—Early in the season your directors, toeing of opinion that the then shareholders of the company could produce and supply sufficient pig? for the company's requirements, decided to cease receiving pigs from those who were not shareholders. The result has been sufficient to justify tlhe wisdom of this step, tihe number of shareholdlers having been largely increased, whilst 'the supply of pigs was well maintained. The amendment of the Article relating to tlhe allotment of stores made by the shareholders at the last annua] meeting 'has resulted in a very large addition to tihe share capital of the company. Your directors have to thank the shareholders for the loyal and generous support they have given" to the company, A special resolution dealing with this will he submitted" to you for approval. During the year the company has paid to shareholders £404 12s in excess of markei price. A further sum of £399 18s 6d has been authorised to be paid, winch will ibring the price for the whole year up to %d per lib above market price. On the average weight of pigs received this is equal to 4s Id per pig. In addition to this your directors have also authorised payment of a dividend! of 5 per cent, on share capital, which absorbs £132 19a. A balance of £25 8s Id is brougJufc forward. You will .be required to elect two directors in place of Messrs Chard and Dobson, who are eligible for re-election ; also' an auditor, Mr. Hopson again offering his services. MATTERS IN AUSTRALIA. A NEW ZEALANDER'S EXPERIENCES. The subject of New Zeaknders leaving the Dominion to settle in Australia was touched upon Iby Mr. A. (Macintosh (superintendent in New Zealand for Dalgety and Co.) in an interview the other dlay with a Dominion representative. Mr. Macintosh has a 'good knowledge of the big country 'across the Tasman, and he is emphatic that for some time now New Zealanders who are capable farmers have been going across there from New Zealand. One idea concerning this matter which had caugM his notice was that wihen a big area of land was being cut up ; into small farms a man from Australia would most likely visit New Zealand and find out rural people who were willing to try the other land'. Those New Zealanders who had gone over generally did [ well, he thought. Quite a number of well-to-do people of this Dominion had invested money in agricultural property in Australia. He also remarked that when people went across from here to Australia it was 'generally to take up freehold land. He was of the opinion that the thought of starting afresh in a new and a strange country deterred many from going. Speaking of Australia as an agricultural country, Mr. Macintosh observed that there were many kinds of climate and land 1 to be found there. The soil was much superior to New Zealand's, jfouit our climate was so much ibetter that it at least quite equalised matters. If Australia could have an even climate with seasons of the best it would be the most wonderful land in tine world. There good seasons were remarkably prolific, and there bad ones were disastrous, ilmt tlhe favorable years were so good thai they could afford the bad ones. lie considered' that New South Wales was prosperous, and said that the growth was lasting and solid, and >a great deal of New Zealand money was. he continued, invested in station property. He was of the opinion that the hopes of a splendid season agriculturally would ibe realised. AN EXTRAORDINARY COW. IN MILK OVER FOUR YEARS. # The remarkalble record of a cow owned by a Mr. James Bunt, of Roseville, Australia, ihas been Shanded to the Australian press. The cow calved on April 20, 1900, and has been milking continuously i ever since, which is remarkable, considering that she had no way or hand-feed-ing of any kind. For several months : after calving the milk yield was between four and five gallons daily. At the pre- [ sent time, after milking for four years and five months, she is (giving between two and a-half and three gallons a day. For the week ending September 17 this cow gave 20.2 (gallons of milk, which, «it wholesale price, iwas forth 16s lfld. The week previous to that a speciment of her milk was sent to Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan (Government expert) to be tested. The result was a test of 5.2. The animal in question was ibred near Goulbum, and is a first cross between the Alderney and Durham. She (had one calf previous to this long milking period, and on that occasion milked for some ten or eleven months.