CASEIN V. PIG.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1917, Page 8

CASEIN V. PIG.

To tho Editor. Sir, —Til your issue of the 2nd lilt., Mr. Bakewell infers that the directors of the Moa Dairy Company are acting illegally by conducting the business of the company. If so he has his remedy and can tatisfy his wounded feelings by taking legal action. Iu future I will take no notice of him, for his letter from start to finish is nothing less than manufactured rubbish got up to color his statement. I will now endeavor to prove ibis. He states (I am told by a friend, and I believe it) the milk of -10 cows will fatten 23 pigs, weighing 13-jlbs each during the season November 1 to March 31. l'his will give 3s (id each—more false ;t.at "incuts—or roundly £7B for the nea-oii. To my knowledge the price received for, the same weight was £2 ltis 3d. or equal to £«•> 14s I'd for the 23 pigs, not £7B as stated by Mr. Bakewell. For this reason all pig buyers only gave iivepence per lb for pork. This upsets Mr. Bakewell's concocted intellectual efforts. The Moa Dairy Co. has paid up to dale Is o4d and has sullicient when returns come to hand <to pay another twopence, which will bring the total payments for butter-fat during last season to Is 7{d. If 2>/;.d for'casein is added we have a grand total of Is lfid per lb. I now come to the average but-ter-fat per cow for the Dominion. Mr. Bakewell tells us lCtilbs is the average production per cove. He allows ,3!}ll> per row to be dedr.cied from the lOliib to rover the months of August, September nnd October before c-asc'ii commences, as this will give you the standard for calculating the value of ca ein per lb of butter-fat. I will now as'; readers to follow me in my reasonable average for lY.ranaki herds. First you must consider that Hie part-lied districts of Auckland, Canterbury and Otago included in the above average of lolilbs irnjst not be compared with the average yield of herds in this district with its rich clover pastores. The average I put down for Taranaki is ISO, or 141,1) per cow more than the Dominion average, which I find trom my own experience to be correct. Allowing JOlbs to be deducted from the lot) as in the case of Mr. Bakewell's average, this will give me ISOlbs to calculate the value of casein to-each shareholder. We will take Mr. Bakewell's 23 pigs on November 1 bred by himself to lie eight weeks old, worth, according' to [ngiewood prices, 17s each, or £1!) Us i'i r the 23. The increased value of them at the time they are fat will be exactly the value of the skim milk of 40 cows. This is tv fact that cannot be disputed, rwentv-three nigs when fat, 1351bs each, jrross weight 3U)olbs, at livepence per lb will return £O4 13s Pd; less 23 store pigs ' i7s each ( £i!) lis) gives £45 2s !)d. T'nis is the actual value of the milk of 10 cons for pig fattening-. So much for Mr. Bakewell's side of the question. Now for the casein. We will take 'lO cows at niv average of ISOlbs each of bnttcr-fat. Tliis gives o2oolbs casein at. 2V;,d, a return of £54 3s 4d. Taking Mr. Bakewell's Dominion average llOlbs per cow, casein at 2.U1 gives £-18 (is Sd, with whey as a further asset, Value of 40 cows' milk for pig fattening £45 2s Oil. 1 think I have clearly shown that casein at 'i.Jil will give better results than pig fattening on Mr. methods, and when the refining factory is erected in Taranaki in the near future shareholders-will receive the rich profits that are now going to the Wanganui company, for 1 ean foresee 3M to 4d certain enough to wipe out small cheese factories.—l am, etc., M. McMAHON. Inglewood. August 30. MR. TRIMBLE ON NATIONAL PRAYER, To tho Editor. Sir, —Mr. If, Trimble seeks lo mutilate the old proverb, ''Trust in God and keep , four powder dry." 11l his motion at the taranaki Education Board's meeting lie wishes lis to pin our faith to the latter part only. We may not be all we should be. but I do not think this community, thank God, is Miite ripe for that yet. 1" am glad the action of the Board showed tins. lliatc-iiferd the ivell known ugnosiV-, in his "Merrie England," says: '"To none am I more indebted than to 1 Jesus Christ." It is well known tli.it Je-iis Christ prayed and inculcated pray- ; pr as a vital duty. In the well kpo.vn book, "Buy of My Heart," the authoress rpeaks of having been a self-seeking worldly woman. But she and many an? other, dopbtless, whose hearts are sore oil account) of the wap, have been led for the tot time in their Hw W

pray, and the thought of re-union with those deAr to us has cheered them. Lord Cromer tells us what an Egyptian agnostic is like, and according to his description, von would not care to touch the creature .with a ten-foot pole. But he Gays an English agnostic with his centuries oi Christian teaching and principles behind him is altogether a different character. If Mr. Trimble thinks we can get on very 'well without prayer and that it is "no good at all," then he can find a brother in Count Bernstorff, who, in a published interview at the time of his leaving America, expressed himself in the usual German materialistic fashion. We know the sentiments that have made Germany pagan and that have brought on this war, and for an Engiishniaii to enunciate them hero iu New Zealand deems an indignity to the blood of those who have died for us'.—l am, etc., J. 'UKE, MURRAY. Eltham, August 31. WHAT'S WRONG WITH TARANAKI? To tho Editor. Sir,—An ex-Taranaki settlor, who is now operating in a large way in the north, writes me as follows.-—"All you people must be dead or asleep, for you are failing behind Auckland in every-, thing." Here follows many details, tile I principal being that no effort is being made to provide freezing space, while at \\ airoa tho directors of the new freezing works called a meeting to got the •works enlarged and £20,000 new capital was subscribed in the room. Then again at Kawakawa eighteen farmers took up one thousand shares a piece (just fancy 18 Taranaki men putting up £IOOO each in any company!) Then in the matter of patriotic funds, look what we have done! The Y.M.C.A. asked for £25,000; we have doubled that, while you people haven't put up a £IOOO for the iiew campaign." No doubt, Sir, in many things the sleeping sickness is taking possession of us' farmers.—l am, etc., A. B.C.