FERTILE TARANAKI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 113, 28 September 1912, Page 4

FERTILE TARANAKI.

HOW MONEY IS MADE. Taranaki farmers have lately been: taking out their earnings for the past season. A News' representative was permitted the other day to peruse a couple of the returns. One dairyman has a 45-aeres place near Hawera. His receipts were: Tiuttcr-fat £077 2s 7d sale of calves £l7 10s, sale of pigs £:j (i ', total, £/50 12s 7d. Yearly average earnings per cow (including pigs and calves), £22 lis sd ; average earnings per acre, £ls Os 10d.- These results show what can bo done on Taranaki land. The herd is not a ••fancy" one, not consisting of high-priced pedigree Jerseys, llolsteins •or Ayrshires, but just an ordinary common or garden variety of mixed Shorthorns, whilst the methods' employed are by no means of that intensive description associated with the dairying industry of Denmark or France. " If the methods were of that nature and pedigree animals used there is not the slightest doubt but that ike yield from the 45 acres would be very largely increased. The returns in the case of No. 2 areincomplete, only eleven months' milfc cheques being shown and no returns for. pigs or calves. The revenue for butterfat for the eleven months was £1342 4s 4d—equal to over £lO per acre. With. the revenue for pigs and calves added the total earnings for the season would! probably exceed £I7OO, or £l4 per acre. This • farm has changed hands hvo time* since IS9-1 at the following prices:—lß94,, £ll los per acre- 1596 £ls; ISO!), £22 10s; 1904, £3O 10s--1907, £4O; 1009, £OS.

llic Eltham Dairy Company have consigned this season's output of butter and cheese to Messrs. Clements and Son of London.

Last Saturday the Ntraire Co-opera-tiye Dairy Company paid out to suufe £ f. 9 , '""garth paw Z £1.,50 which included a %d bonus from last year. Cardifl paid out £2-?(i 8s lid The Hurleyville Dairy Company has ui offer of o 9-16 peace per pound' for the season's output. Tie Joll Co-operative Dairy (: ompa „ r will this year send n}) - lts ou(pll ' t '. cheese through Messrs. Xathan and Co on open consignment.