DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10086, 6 September 1910, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondents.)

7TARATAHI.

The Taratah! cheese factory will soon be in full swine. T.ie milk is coming in fairly fast, and the factory is now receiving 800 gallons a day. Although the spring is ranch later this season than last, everything points to a flourishing season again.

The pig industry is booming ahead Tie first consignment arrived the o her day, being a fine lot of shots, a:d another hatch is expected in a day or two. The Taratahi Company are leaving no stone unturned to make the pig industry a paying concern. They have the paddock fenced off into twelve different runs of four and a half chain long.. The piga* houses are at one end, and the feeding trough at the other end, so that the pigs have to travel the above distance for their food. The houses are ouilt of woo.-f, with concrete floor, and moveable wooden floors on top for the pigs to sleep on are also taken out and the concrete cleaned every d \y. Tne feeding troughs are glazed pipes set in concrete. Around the troughs there is a concrete floor 7ft wide with 3in fall running out to the outside of the run into a concrete drain, which is the whole length of the twelve runs, and tfce water race is to be brou£ht into use so as foj have same running down, so ttac everything can be kept perfectly clean and free from smell. The whey |is all blown up to the top tank by means of an ejector and than pas* teurieed, so there will be no fear of any tuberculoses amonget the pigs. After the pasteurisation of the whey it is conveyed up to the pigs by means of pipes, and each trough is to oe filled by means of a tap, no buckets being required. All this work has been done by day labour, under the supervision of the chairman, Mr W. Fisher The factory, although one of in ibi North Island, ia a credit to fie manager, Mr W. Ha k less. He has got tl e factory renovated throughout, all nicely paiuted inside, at d the machinery is done up in great style. When one enters into the factory it is like going into a drawing room; everything his its place, and everything in its place.