FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1921, Page 10

FARM AND DAIRY.

NEWS AND NOTES. The Woodville Dairy Company shareholders resolved that a cow-testing association be formed at the factory. Nearly all present signified ; their willingness to join. It was also /noved that the Government be asked to move in the direction of having all cull cows (under 1801 b) branded to prevent them being passed on as good dairy cows. . At a meeting of the East Taranaki dairy farmers, the prospects for this season’s dairy produce were referred to by Mr. A. J. Sinclair, assistant manager of the New Zealand Co-operative I>airy Co., Ltd. He said that influences were at work on the Home market which were a little difficult to explain at the moment, but it should be remembered that efforts were frequently made at this time of the year to “bear” the market. Practically no forward sales were being made this season, buyers having been severely hit by the experience of last year. Any small sales that had taken place were mostly to fulfil orders, and were not of a speculative nature. All indications pointed to a very satisfactory price for consigned cheese; factories which had been separating milk during August for buttermaking purposes, commenced the manufacture of cheese on September 1.

Mr. D. Buchanan, ■of Tiakitahuna, brought back with him from Scotland two bulls, one six months old and the other twelve months old, of the new Ayrshire breed, which is now the most popular milking strain in Scotland. They were purchased from Mr. McCoath, of Newton Stewart, Chelladh, AVightonshire. The dam of the youngest bull was third in the show of new Ayrshires at Ayre),.’ at which all record cows competed. She was also first for a cow and three of her progeny in milk. The twelve-mouths bull has been sold to a purchaser in Australia. The campaign against the cattle tick will soon be in operation (states the Bay of Plenty Times). The new regulations are not yet known, but meantime the old regulations are in force. According to the old regulations, cattle are not allowed to pass over the boundaries of the Tauranga stock district without a permit that they are free of living tick. Stock found on the public road or in saleyards with tick upon them render their owners liable to proseution. Last year tick was found on certain town cows, and there is every probability that all the cows running on the roads within the borough and vicinity will have to be dipped every three weeks until March next, as soon as the new dip at Judea is erected. The construction of two dips at Maniatutu and To Puke has been completed.-