FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1915, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

INGLEWOOD 00>OP BACON CO. The annual report of the Inglewood Co-operative Bacon Company, to be submitted to the annual meetng, states;— The number of pigs received has again increased, and the average price paid has been about the same as for the previous year. Notwithstanding the increased number of pigs received the company has again had to refuse orders for bacon, thus showing that the company's products continue to hold a satisfactory position on the market. During the year the company has paid the shareholders the sum of £13,188 14s Bd, and a further payment of £675 4s Bd, being at Hie rate of one farthing per pound on, all baconers and porkers, has been auth-1 orised to be paid. A refund of 5d per pig out of the insurance fund has been authorised, also a dividend of 5 per cent, on share capital. The sum of £3BO 17s lias been written off for depreciation at the same rate as last year, and a net balance of £2 14s 5d is brought forward. The share capital account has been maintained in a satisfactory condition. During the year 617 shares have become forfeited, and the amount paid up on them, £-271 7s sd, has been placed to a reserve accouut. Your directors have considered it advisable to make provision for handling a larger number of pigs, and this has entailed the erection of substantial additions to the factory buildings. These additions are now completed, and when equipped with added plant will enable the company to cope with a largely increased supply. The outlook for the coming season is again good, and high prices are likely to rule, CANADA'S GREAT WHEAT SUPPLY. With the completion of Iter two new trans-continentals and many branch lines or "feeders," Canada may be said to have conquered for the time being her old annual problem of transporting the wheat crop from the prairies to tide water. A record crop is confidently expected this year, and from an area sown in wheat alone 1,662,000 acres in excess of the 1914 total; but the railway companies are fully equal to the task of luiulipg it to the head of the Great Lakes, to Vancouver, and other points of shipment. The war, however, says the London Standard, has created other difficulties. Instead of a shortage of railway trucks there is likely to be a shortage of ships and of harvest hands. With so many Canadians under arms, a large percentage of whom are men who would have been available as harvesters, there promises to be a serious scarcity of workers in the Western wheat fields during the next six or seven weeks. In order to minimise this scarcity leave of aosenoe is to be granted to selected noncommissioned officers and men of the Expeditionary Force still in Canada, for the purpose of enabling them to take part in harvesting work. Return railway tickets will be furnished to such men upon proof being given that they have actually obtained, harvesting employment within a radius of a certain distance of the headquarters of their unit. Hundreds of ocean steamers have been taken off their usual routes and requisitioned for war purposes, and there has been for months past a great scarcity of Atlantic tonnage. The Dominion Government is seeking a solution to both problems. A considerable number of harvesters will probably be brought to the prairies from British Columbia. An effort will also be made to secure harvesters from the United States, if it is found necessary to supplement the expected decrease in the usual numbers who go West from Eastern Canada. To meet the ocean tonnage shortage arrangements are, it is understood in Canada, being made with the Admiralty to release a number of shins which are sow nnder orders for transport service.