FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 300, 28 May 1915, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

Till-; OHEESK POSITION. Tlio continued strength of the cheese market seems to come as a surprise to many people, and it has been suggested that the prices have been unwarrantably forced up, but seeing the manner in which all arrivals have been quickly ah- \ sorbcd it is certain that prices have only moved in accordance with the laws of j supply and demand. Taking the question j .of supplies first, there is no doubt that| the make of cheese in ICngland last year was at least up to the average, and the j make in Canada was only slightly be-1 hind that of the previous season. Re-j ceipts from New Zealand this. winter j have been about equal to those in the previous season. The supply may, therefore, be considered normal if calculated from the middle of last summer. Now • as to demand, there has certainly been a very large increase in consumption since the outbreak of the war, chiefly accounted for by the requirements of the Army, and the demand from this source will probably increase so long as the war lasts. The retail' priee of cheese has naturally advanced, but cheese is very little, if any, dearer relatively than any other article of food. Naturally when the cost of living has increased all round, the economic value of cheese as a food is more recognised, ,and since this point has been prominently brought before the public in the daily press very frequently during the past few mouths, some further increase in demand lias probably resulted. An abundant early make in this country and in Canada might, in due course bring some relief from the present high prices, but until the war is over there seems no prospect of a decline to anywhere near the previous range of prices.—'The Grocer," London, Kith .March, 1915.

HlfLpiNO THE GERMANS. Says tho Now Zealand Dairyman:— We have actually been helping by means of our butter-making industry to provide the murderer with his tools of trade. We have been for twenty years buying our imitation parchment paper from the Germans, ami so helping in a measure to provide means for making the Kaiser's murder-machines, for doing to death the men. the maidens, and the forty babies. For all time we hope that the butter-making industry will remember the Lusitania murders when giving their indent orders, and take special care that they do not go to the country, which, to its shame, is ruled over by the man who has thrown Nana Sahib from his pedestal as the champion brutal murderer of the world.

WORLD'S DATRY RECORDS. "Hoard's Dairyman" states that a Guernsey cow has established a now world's record for butter-fat produced in 0110 year, and in the Holstein brood there is a tliree-vear-old junior heifer that will (according to reports) not only break the world's record for her class, but will also exceed the highest butterfat yield regardless of ago. •••In view of these great records, one by a Guernsey and one by a Holstein, people might think that the Jersey has been left in the;- rear as far as leading records are concerned; but, upon looking over the list of leading cows in each age class, we find that, as the record of the Jersey heifer, Lass With of the Jlood Farm, replaces that of the Guernsey heifer, Dolly Dimple, as the world's champion three-year-old senior, the Jersey breed holds the highest records in four of the eight classes. The following Jerseys are'leading the world: j Lucky Farce 21)8177, with 14,2(501b5. milk, GHlilbs. butter-fat,' at one year eleven months of age, leads the yearlings. l'early Exile of St. Lambert 205,101, with 12,.'i4(Ubs. milk, 8l(ilbs. butter-fat, heads the junior two-year-olds. Lass (ilitii of Hood Farm, 2718i)0, with 17,7f141b5. milkj UlOlbs. butter-fat, is world's champion three-year-old senior. Olympiad Fern A>2,otlo, with l(i,l4Blbs of milk, !)371bs. butter-fat, leads the four-year-old seniors. The honours in the other four classes are divided equally between the Guernseys and Tlolsteins, each holding two records. A Guernsey cow leads tlie mature cow class and the junior three-year-old class, while black and whites head the remaining two classes. j