The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1899.

Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 413, 23 March 1899, Page 2

The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1899.

In other places in this issue will be found a report of Mr Seddon's speech at Cambridge and another of the meeting of milk suppliers held at Pukorimu. Want of space prevents our commenting on either. We shall do so in next issue.

The Assessment Courts for the Boroughs of Hamilton and Cambridge will be held on the 12th and 14th April, respectively. Members of the Waikato Hunt Club are reminded of the meeting to be held at the National Hotel, Cambridge, at 3 p.m. to-morrow.

We commend the perusal of the report of the Jasper Brush Dairy Company, New South Wales, which we print in another column. It will afford some useful information to milk suppliers and all interested in the dairy industry.

Mr W. H. Berries, M.H.E., wrote to the Mayor of Cambridge, apologising for not being present at Mr Seddon's meeting. He gave as the cause that he had to meet the Governor at Tauranga. Messrs McNicol and Co. have received instructions from Mr John Proctor (who has disposed of his farm) to sell at Kiiikiriroa on Saturday, April Ist, at 2 p.m., his live stock, implements, etc. Full particulars will be found in their usual column, The sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be celebrated at the Hamilton Presbyterian Church at the morning service on Sunday, The pre-communion service will be conducted by the Rev. Thos. Scott, M.A., of Cambridge, tomorrow evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock.

It is noti6ed elsewhere that the church parade of the No. 2 Company, Waikato Mounted Rifles, called for Sunday next, has been cancelled. AH the members who contemplate attending the Easter Encampment arc required to parade at Pirongia, at 6 a.m. on Thursday, 30th inst.

Our Kihildhi correspondent writes :—The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was observed last Sunday evening in the Presbyterian Church, Kihikihi, the Pastor, the Rev, Walter Smith, officiating. There was a large and attentive congregation, and quite a goodly number partook of the Communion. One hundred and ten applications were received for the position of colonial veterinary surgeons, and the following six were appointed : C. R. Neale, A.. Crabb, C. J. Sanderson, E. Nelson, H. C. Wilkie, J. C. Clayton. All left England this month. They will be distributed over the colony, and will examine stock killed for export and local use.

The annual meeting of the congregation of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, is to be held to-morrow evening. In addition to tha usual business, a very interesting report of the past year's operations will be given and an attractive programme of sacred music is in preparation. The meeting should be largely attended by all who are interested in the prosperity of the church. Messrs McNicol and Co. hold their annual Autumn horse fair at Cambridge, commencing to morrow at 10.30. a.m., and continuing on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Fully 350 horses are entered, comprising all classes from good reliable draught ; 10 useful cobs and stock horses, a draught of light harness and upstanding sorts, suitable for 'bus and express work from West Coast, as well as 22 horses from Mr C. Vernon, of Waingaro, thoroughbred stallion Loraee, brood mares, useful hacks and a number of unbroken stock, altogether, there is a good-entry of serviceable sorts, and if horses are required, there should bo a good sale. Whilst the Premier was in Auckland, Drs. Lewis and Roberton waited upon him as representatives of the British Medical Association, and asked that Dr. Kenny should be allowed private practice outside the duties in connection with the Rotorua Sanatorium. Dr. Lewis said the medical men of Auckland thought it absolutely necessary that there should be some reliable medical man at Rotorua, with whom visitors could consult as to the baths. The Premier said he would not be a party to setting up a Government officer in practice against a private practitioner. Rotorua would never support a medical man if they allowed Dr. Kenny to practice. The position the Government took up was this, Dr. Kenny might be consulted but he mußt charge according to a Government scale, and the fees go into the consolidated revenue.

We are in receipt of Messrs Arthur Yates and Co.'a price list of farm seeds for 1899. In their introductory remarks, the firm draws attention to the low price of all the leading grasses this season, and with the view of maintaining and adding to their reputation for clean seeds, they have just erected an additional " grass seed cleaner " that gives results little short of marvellous. The seed goes through several processes to separate the different weeds and produces a perfectly clean sample. They also draw attention to the fact that they are the only Colonial seed firm with headquarters in England, which gives them exceptional facilities for buying in the Continental and English markets. Every sample of seed is tested before being placed upon the market, and their Beett farms at Mangere and Papatoitoi are exclusively devoted to this testing and selecting of their pedigree seeds. In addition to a descriptive account of a number of varieties of new grasses now coming into favour, much valuable information will be found in the pages of the pamphlet both as to the quantities and mixtures of seeds suited to different soils and localities. To those of our farming friends who have not been supplied we recommend to apply for copies of the price list, and we feel sure a perusal of its contents will amply repay them. Mr A. B. Heather, of Hamiltan, is the firm's Waikato agent. Land settlement schemes have caused no small amount of discussion among residents in this district lately (writes the Bush correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald). While the ballot system is regarded as fair enough in one respect, that it gives all an equal chance, objection is taken to it on the ground that it gives the speculator as good a chance as the bona Jide settler. How to guard against the speculator evil has engaged the attention of many of our legislators, but so far the amount of success that has attended their efforts has not been as great as might have been desired. It cannot be questioned that men who would make the best of settlers are debarred of their chance by the universality of the opportunities the present system affords To point out defects is generally easy work ; but to suggest the remedy is not always a matter of such simplicity. Discussion among farmers has evoked oue suggestion which has a good deal to recommend it. That is that the old association plan should be reverted to. This, it is true, might give bodies of farmers a wider chance,and would ensure, to a certain extent at any rate, the exclusion of the speculator. What bona Jhlv settlers want is that it shall be nude impossible for speculators to jump their claim, and without any wish to become settlers themselves, thus to diminish the chances of those who do. Another thing that a number of the Old hands favour, too, is the deferred payment system. That evokes their heartiest praise, and the number who would vote for its reintroduetion if given a chance is wry large indeed,

Meriden Creamery Company of Meriden, Kansas, find that their patrons who know how to feed get from £8 to £ll income per year from each cow, while the patrons who do not know how to feed get from £3 10s to £5 per cow per year, and that the net profits received from each cow by their best patrons are eleven limes these received per cow by their poorest. They also find that some of their patrons get no profit whatever from the skim milk, while others who know ho\Tto handle it get from Is to 2s from each one hundred pounds of skim milk fed. As there are 5000 pounds of skim milk from each cow yearly, the way it is handled makes a great difference in the profits from dairying. The Meriden Company believe that if their employees aiu thoroughly instructed in these lines of feeding, they can help the farmers who sell milk alike to the creamery to largely increase the farmers' profits, and the same time increase the profits of the creamery. For this reason the shareholders of the Meriden Company have decided to send all their employees to the Kansas Dairy School at Manhattan, and require them while there to make a special study of feeding dairy cows and of feeding skim milk to calves and pigs.