FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 272, 14 May 1912, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY

"development of dairying. SOME HUGE FIGURES. TARANAKI IN THE LEAD. Further returns in connection with the industrial census, published in the Gazette, show that since the last census in 1005 the wages of employees in the dairy industry have increased by £38,938. There are, according to the return, 338 factories, an increase of 74 in five years, and of these (18 are scheduled as individual, 20 firm or limited partnership, 118 belong'to public or private registered companies, and 120 are co-operative or miscellaneous. There are 1504 hands employed, as against 1484 in 1905, and 1188 in 1900. The stronghold of the home separator system is Auckland, 1-762, out of a total of 2418, being in that province. Wellington comes next ■with 292, and Nelson, 108, is the only others province which runs into double figures. The development of the industry is shown by the amount of capital invested in dairy factories and machinery. This totals £954,122, being, land £110.300, buildings £381,308, and plant and machinery £402,454. The to-' tal for 1905 was £010,200, made up as under:—Land £50,008, buildings £215,178, plant and machinery £345,080. The value of the output and wages paid at the factories in the'various provinces last year were:— Value of Wages output. paid. Province £ £ Auckland 901.727 31,778 Taranaki 1;209.243 44,898 ■Hawke's "Bay ... T51.057 9,993 Wellington .... 709.235 37.331 Marlborough... 29,439 1.877 Nelson 50.839 2,958 Westland ....... 21,711 1,273 Canterbury .... 221,041 9,455 Otago 233.000 14,352 Southland 279.702 15,435 Total 3,919,15-I 109,350 The wages paid in 1905 totalled £130,442, when the value of the output was £2,sßl,o39—Dominion. liUSII SICKNESS. EXPERIMENTS PROGRESSIST} SATISFACTORILY. It is understood that very encouraging results are being obtained from the practical experiments which are being carried out by the Agricultural Department in reference to the suppression of bush sickness. Experimental animals on specially top-dressed areas have remained perfectly healthy and have grown and developed well, whilst central animals have developed the disease and died. These results have given the Department officers much valuable information, and, an exchange understands, it is now intended to commence a further series of experiments, from which the best results arc hoped for, seeing that so great an advance in the study of the disease has already been attained.