FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 172, 20 January 1914, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

Tin- ■Miilliir.-.l Dairv Company pay out L'l2.'->:S ISs Hal (o suppliers lor December milk io-dav. -illth iusl.

Willi a small oullay for practical experiments, a fanner can always learn more in a season rejiardinir the rei]iiircnients of the soil lie cultivates Hum in any other manner, and the value of such knowlcdiio will enable him to produce (he largest possible crops with the smallest expen.-e for fertilisers.

The works at and I'd one arc inadiially working up to the height of Ihe killin- seasonSheep arc arriving in lariicr numbers than has been the case hitherto this season. The Railway Department has provided ». number of special stock trains, and sheep arc. arriving at the Dear Work,. I'ctoiic, at the rate of between six ami seven thoisand daily.

A Sydney man. who is iliHfly in touch with (lie moat export trade, predicts 'that ere, long fill cattle will In: worth id least Wis per llKllb in the Infill market, mid that the rate will he stationary. Tin.' American trade is likely to have :i strong- inllucnee in permanently raising the price of hoof in Australia. Po-siMy mutton will he high, too.

The possibilities of Woslland as a ) daiying province appear to hare pro- } fonndly impressed the visitors who came ] from other parts of the Dominion .to attend the Jubilee celebrations (says the (ircvmoillh eorrespondent of the Otago Daiiv Times). 'Practically all the Parliamentarians prophesied a glorious future j for the "Ibillion West,'' when, as a speaker put it. "The cow that lays the golden calves." is 'in undisputed possession of the broad jieros. Sir Joseph Ward stated also that the advent of seienHic dairying means the dawning of a new era on the coast, while Mr. (I. \Y. Russell, M.P.. waxed omhiisiastie over what he termed the unbounded possibili- ' ties which the introduction of that industry presaged. The member for Avon j pointed to the pro-perity of Taranaki as an illustration of what dairying could do for a. country blessed with an abundant rainfall, aiid said that there was absolutely no reason why Wosiland once more should not duplicate the success of the northern'provinces.