FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1922, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

“The wages of ploughmen have come down 'by 10s per week and harvesting wages by 3d per hour,” said a Farmers’ Union member at a meeting of the executive in Timaru last Friday. The idea of one great highway from Auckland to Wellington was to be condemned —there must be a proper arterial system, each local authority developing its own roads and joining up with the national roads. It mattered not from which end one started, and the farmers of Taranaki had been equally as successful, although starting in the opposite direction —as the Americans. An ordinary cow's milk in Java costs 10/6 a gallon. Mr.- Powell, who is a native of Richmond, is on one of his periodica] trips to Sydney to buy cattle, and tells about it. A cow to milk would earn about 75 guilders a month. At the present time a guilder is worth 1/8. The milk is used in its natural form, no butter feeing manufactured there,

and sells at 50 cents per bottle; while the supply at present is not equal to the demand. Mr. Powell said, in reply to an enquiry as to the breed of cows most in favor in Java, that Holstein® thrived best.