FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1915, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

ELTHAM DATRY CO. At tlie annual meeting of the Elt'isim Co-operative Dairy Factory Co. on the 21st inst. the directors will r».;jnrr: During the year we received find maiiU factured the following: For butter-mak-ing—lMU, 2,200,59111); butter-fat, So,306.191b; average test, 3.72 per cent.; cream, 56,4331b; butter-fat, 22,314.101b; average test, 3.954 per cent.; butter, 122,35G1b—54 tons 12cwt lqr 241b. For cheese-making—Milk, 38,051.9141b—1735 tons liScwt lqr 31b; cheese to lib butterfat, 2.801bj milk to lib cheese, 9.761b. During the season the average prhe paid for butter-fat for cheese-making was 13<1, and the average price paid for butter-fat for butter-making was ll.lOd. The balance on hand makes it possible for your directors to make a further paymeit of 5.81 d, which will bring the total average up to lii.otld per lb for the season.

A ''fat" year is in store for Australia, according to the confident reports from Sydney, at any rate so far as the grain harvest is concerned. Very large crops are expected in all the States, and in New South Wale.3 the wheat return is expected to be anything between 40,000.000 and 00,000,000 bushels, such a harvest as the State has never before »x----perienced. In normal seasons sueh a harvest would have caused considerable difficulties in transport, aud these difficulties, which arc sure to be accentuated this season, are now receiving the careful attention of the Xcw South Wales Government. In Victoria, also, the Premier has 1 made statements which show that the troubles of possible longcstion and shortage of means of transport are under consideration. ■ The Federal Government, it Is stated, will have to grajpie with the matter of shipping i'lc crop, to a very large extent, and 'the whole question is to be discussed by .', conference either in Sydney or in Melbourne at an early date. The dislocation d shipping caused by the war is a serious mattoi! ,'or the great wheat industry of Australia, but the authorities are doing their best to arrange for sufficient ships', and that in good time. The main tiling, however, is the good news of an anticipated record harvest, and Australia ought to consider itself thrice fortunate in these stormy days that Its graingathering is not likely to he interrupted by the tread of an invade"!'—a renurk thai applies with equal force to Xew Zealand.