FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1922, Page 12

FARM AND DAIRY.

WAIKATO DAIRYING. A, TAST YEAR REVIEWED. The annual report presented at the general meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Co-cperative Dairy Company, Ltd., to be held at Hamilton ou August 23, stated that during the sea's on 18,200 tons of butter were made, 'against 12,600 tons for the previous seui son. representing an increase of over 140 per cent. It is gratifying to record | that there has been a marked improveiment in the quality of the butter and 'casein manufactured. Unfortunately, the splendid dairy season was counterbalanced by the unprecedented slump in the price of all dairy products. The industry passed through the greatest crisis on record, but the strong financial position of the company and the results obtained spoke volumes for co-operative enterprise.

The report further states that reference was made in the last report to the question of improving marketing conditions. Mr. Goodfellow’s mission to London had resulted in the appointment of Mr. J. B. Wright as European manager, and he was now controlling the company's sales operations in Great Britain. ' Mr. Good-fellow’s visit to overseas mar- ! kets had already been of very consider- ! able benefit to the company, and it was i anticipated great advantages to the busilaiescs would accrue in the future.

Owing to the tremendous expansion of the industry since amalgamation, the directors had been called upon to practically double the manufacturing capacity of the company’s plants; otherwise milk and cream offering could not have been handled. These plants had been paid for by borrowing from the banks. The expenditure had greatly exceeded share calls, and. in consequence, it would take i two years’ share payments to enable the ■ company to pay or: promptly at the i clo~.e of each season.

The box department had proved an unqualified success, and had resulted in a direct saving of over £25,000. The farthing per lb required to provide the capital would be deducted next season. The development o-f the coalfields was ; well in hand, and was ahead of the railway work of the Public Works Department. The final farthing to provide the 'total capital would be deducted from the [past season’s payments. It was anticipated coal would be available in large [quantities for the factories in a year’s | time. The company’s coal requirements now exceed 70.000 tons a year.

The following statistics indicate the scope of the company’s operations during the past season: —Milk received for butter-making, 75,842,000; re ‘ reived -for ehees' -making. 105,497,458 lb; cream received. 73.151.340 lb: total but-ter-fat for butter-making 33.982,078 lb: total butter made, 40.809.186 lb: overrun. 20.09 per cent.: total butter-fat for cheese-making. 3.981.741 lb; • heese made. 10,507.797 lb; average cheese made from 1 lb butter-f.-t. 2.639 lb; casein made, 497.555 tons. The average price advanced for all butter-fat throughout the past season was 12.00 pence. The total average price paid for superfine cream at central factories will be 16.46 d, conditional on the unsold butter realising the prices at which stocks nn hand and afloat have been valued. Suppliers who deliver to railway stations receive Jd per lb less. A circular accompanies the report sent to suppliers. It states that the directors have now decided to close down the company’s merchandise business, and >t is anticipated that this will reduce complaints by 90 per eent. Tn future only separators, cream cans, dairy brushware, and appliances required in the handling of milk and cream will be sold. It is necessary to increase the capital of the company, in order to enable the issue of additional shares du? to increase in supply. It is not the intention of the directors to increase the shareholding butterfat basis. On August 25 a progress bonus payment of"3Ad per ib on butter will be made covering all butter-fat supplied during the months of December. January. and It is anticipated that further payments will be made at the end of September and October, covering the whole of the but ter-fat supplied from October 1 until the end of April. The winter bonus, covering but-ter-fat supplied during May. June, and Julv. will be available when the surplus produce not required for local consumption has been disposed of.

BUTTER-FAT AVERAGES. A GOOD SHOWING. Mr. D. F. Malone, who supplies the I Joi! Company, had on average of 332.95 jib per cow for last season with a herd lof 48 cows: (reports the Star). For the ‘.previous two years it was 293.94 and i 317.63. They were under the Factory I Testing Association. Some of his best j were as follows:

I Mr. Malone has some heifers under • C.O.R. test, as follows: —Snow Creek’s .Pride, senior three-year-old. 586.04 lb in 3d* davs: Rosy Creek Song, two-year-old. 408.26 lb in 310 days; Snow View’o Wreath .two-year-old. 414.71 lb in 34-» days. Snow Creek’s Pride has good blood on both sides —Twyli-h Solid Gold I on sire’s side and K.C.B. 'blood on the '"dam's side. Rosy Creek Son? bv Bili berry Twylish out of Spring Song, and I traces back to K.C.B. and Genoa Dais?. I dam of Sultan’s Daisy. She has a bull J calf to Cains, half-brother of Sultan’s iD.’isy. Snow *w’s Wreath, is half ‘ sister to Snow View’s Pride. 1 ?Jr. S. J. P.ennot. of Kaupokonui. 10-t his bull AT-'id’-'. Noble Genera] owing to I illness some days ago. GENERAL ITEMS. A Southland visitor to Christchurch furnished a. Press reporter’with some remarkable figures of the results of the fescue harvest in the Riversdal? district, near Gore. From an area of less than (twenty square miles it is estimated that from £100.099 to £120.000 came to grow - e-- from this crop. Tn one case, of which the visitors had first-hand know-

ledge, two young fellows, returned .soldiers, secured approximately £3500. At the annual meeting of the Waingongoro. Dairy Company (near jStratford), Mr. O’Sullivan suggested that the whey should be heated by steam from, the exhaust pipe, claiming this would be a great advantage t>o suppliers. The directors promised consideration o-f the matter; and also Mr. O’Sullivans other suggestion that the whole of the suppliers bo urged to go in for herd testing.

Now that all the returns are coming to hand, remarked a dairy factory official to a Manawatu Standard reporter recently, it is evident that the average price obtained for cheese throughout last season by dairy factories who consigned the whole of their output to England was 72d f.o.b. Wellington. Indeed, it is questionable company which went in for straight-out consigning the whole time, with no local sales whatsoever, did any better , than this price, which is equivalent tq a shade under Is 3d per lb of butter-fat. Australian buyers for Friesian cattle are again operating in New Zeal and graphs a Palmerston North correspondent. It transpires that Mr. Hi R. Green, of Kairanga, has just sold to Henry Collins and Co., of South Australia. a two-year-old heifer for SOO gns., which is a record for a New Zealand heifer.

It was stated at the annual meeting of the Levin Dairy Company that, the cost of manufacturing butter last : season was l.Gld per lb’, or a little over Ud. Marketing charges totalled 2.95 d, or a shade under 3d per lb. The company manufactured 709 tons 8 cwt.,J7 lb of butter, an increase of IS3 tons the previous season’s output: 16.000 boxes passed through the grading ..store with an average grade of 94*03 The company will pay out Is 5d for butterfat for th? season. . Speaking at th? meeting of the Kai|ranga Dairv Company. Mr. W. Thomson said that, 'according to advices he had received from England, there were no ■prospects of butter supplies from Treiland in any great quantity: none .was likely to be received from Siberia, and Germany possihlv would take a great portion of the Danish butter. Prospects for New Zealand butter were, therefore, exceedingly good for the coming season. Although there is a good deal of hard work and long hours attached to dairying. still it has some cojnpenqqtions,. even'if thev only happen once a, year, as instanced nt the annual meeting of the Westmere Dairy Company on Monday. The Wanganui Herald reports’ that, while th? votes for the new directorate were -being counted up a gentleman pi\ - duced two boxes of cigars and distributed ther.i to the dairymen. Tin's was followed by two bottles of whisky which came as another pleasant surprise, and to wind up a perfect day the shareholders received the envelopes, containing their cheques. “With the advent of the dairy season a great demand for farm labor has set in. and if all the unemployed persons in the city were capable of making them- ■ selves useful ,in milking sheds or in the fields, all. or most of them, would

speedily be engaged (says the Auckland Herald). The demand for farm workers, especially for milkers, is al-, wave heavy at this period of the year, and at present it considerably exceeds the supply. Dairy farmers in all parts of the province are looking forward to a good season and an increased butterfat output, and the need for extra labor ‘follows as a matter of course. An indication of the increasing demand for ifarm labor has been afforded by the I‘wanted’ columns during the past week |or two. The number of advertisements lof this character has been increasing steadily, and in c.ne recent issue a re'cord was reached, there being no fewer .than 46 applications for help. In 34 i cases persons able to assist in milking. i either by machine or hand, asked ' for. The wages offered to single men ' ranged from 25s to 35s and found, and ;up to £3 a week and found for married I counles.” . I The sub-committee of-the New | Wales Cabinet, which is inquiring into the question of land settlement., announces that of 35,000.600 acres capable of wheat growing and within 12 miles of railways in that State, only 3.000.000 acres are under wheat. This strengthens

the contention of the Federal Ities that it is unnecessary • to spend money at present on the construction I of new rail ways.

! Meanwhile, apart -from the of I opportunities f or immigrants, thousands lof young Australians, experienced .in 1 farming are unable to obtain land and are being forced to the already congested cities, where they ar? unemplovable. An Argentine writer states that if is proposed to construct country freezing works or a means of assisting the. live stock industry, twenty of them,'to be erected in different centres where cattle land sheep are plentiful. Each works ] is to have 2'09 acres of alfalfa adjoin-

ling for feeding and spelling purpose-?, i Snpc’al railway waggons arc to be provided to convey the meat to th? city pr steamers. Th? ‘sharps ate to be offered to the surrounding landholders, so as to mak? pack ?. co-operative concern.,

“Tt is estimated that there will be a glut of p ; gs nn the Nf»w Zealand, mari ket this year.” remarked an official of i the Dairy Farmers’ Union to a Manawatu Standard representative, in stating that the union was determined to do" everything pnsisble to bring about ■ a North Island bacon pool. He added I that, estimating th? Dominion consuppItion of pigs as 100.006 per vear. there ■ would b? a surplus of 30.000 animals. ; and the onlv way to prevent the market from glutting was to work up an export trade. Last season a trial ship-

i ment of -some 14.000 sides of New Zealand pork was. he added, successfullv marketed in England, but in order to finance an export trade of. any dimensions an organisation in the nature of the proposed pool was absolutely essential. ♦

Pedigrees Lb milk. Days. Snow View’s Pride . .. . 540.92 300 Pea Blossom . 432.35 306 Jennv's Pr'neees Maid . . *426.61 204 Annetta . 432.39 303 Passion Creeper Grades. . 410 Flo . 4-02.69 333 Mollie . 419.80 216 Pansv 404.48 292 Fancy 385.01 300 Birdie . 387 284