FEATHERSTON FARMERS' CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1718, 24 June 1884, Page 2

FEATHERSTON FARMERS' CLUB.

The monthly meeting of this Club was held 011 Saturday, when tho advisability of establishing a Co-operativo Dairy Produce Depot ill Wellington was brought before tho meeting by Mr Golemiu Phillips, Mr Bunny occupied tbe chiir. Mr Phillips said vith respsofc to produce there were wo courses open to the dairy farmers of Featherston. Tlio' first' was for a deputation to bo appointed to'go to Wellington sn:l interview the purchasers if milk and but,tor,. and (jet information as to tho . advisability of directly supplying tha Wellington market with milk. A cooperative dairy stove opened in Wellington could perhaps best deal with tin surplus produco of the Wniravapa, hut until the necessity was seen of opening such a store, daily farmers near Featherston ,or along the railway !ino had bottsr enter into direct e"miTiui'.ic(ition with the pnrohasew: ; fa Wei As an instance of-what : lio done he mentioned tho caso of a storcman in Wcllingloa who would be glad to got'a inoro rea ly supply of milk and butter than l\e had at present in tho following quantities !—about 10 gallons of milk a day, and 75 lb3 of buttor a week. It present he drow his supply of these 'things by the railway, purchasing them at a distance from town, and paying, the speaker.-believed, 8d per gall n for the milk and the railway charge as well, viz,; one penny per g illon; and Is 2d per lb for butter, Now, these' prices wore simply exeslleut, and the Featherston dairy farmers should endeavor to make ar; angements to ohla'n 'them, Ono difficulty stood in the way which must be mot ami overcome, that was, tlu Sunday supply of milk. At present, the Sunday trains r:.n only as far as the Upper Hutt; and tlin particular storekeeper depended upon getting his Sunday's supply of milk by the Sunday train, he objected to Sunday work of any kind, yet, if tlu tram ran as far as the Upp?r Hutb. thero was no reasou why it should not come oa to Featherston, as by doing so, it ,ifou!d over, come a very serious obstacle ill opoulng up to tlic Wellington puhlio a very great supply of dajry produce. Eventually of couw yearly the whole milk supply of Wellington would be carried by train and noi' in the fa,'mem' traps. ISigblponce per gallon in vyjuer time was equal to Is §d per lb for butter without the trouble of making it, arid what would have to bo dono was to endeavor * to get the milk carried into town' for Id per gallon, wh'ch lie th.iught, would be con* sidered a fair euougli tariff from the Feathe stou distance. Ho woald thereforo susgost to the dairy farm-rj near Feathers--ton to see what they could do this winter in opening up this tiade; leaving the-summer to provide' for ilse'f. Fivepence a gallon ■ for milk should bo obtained in summor, and if only a hundred gallons a day were sent in that would bn so mud) of tuo surplus (lis. jqsed of. (5J a gallon being equal to Is' («Jd alb for buitsij. Combined with th' 3 above coutso of action, lie would also suggast to tho Fcatlici'dton dairy psoplo to at 'oiica stsrt a creamorv for the benefit of those persins living about and near llieoamp, and consequently too far aw.vy from the rail- ■ way. £509 worth of sha 'os had been already applied for, and a good mmy names had yet to bjjput upon the list. With.£7so subscribe ho thought work should bo commenced: only against this thoro was tho | resolution of (he public meeting that work should not bo oommencod until £IOM worth of shares were subscribed for. ~ Now a creamery would mt require so much capital as a cheese and butter factory, and bo thought they should make a start. Tlio expensive haulage of milk would" behaved. . Tho farmer.) would also have tho skim : milk to rear their calves, One brake employed by tho creamery could easily collect the cream. One sample of butter would consequently bo made. The directors, too, could take better measures for disposing of' the butter made than each fanmr individu. ally attempting to do so. Oo the whole, a creamery would bo bo found to pay remarkably well, Mr Phillips read a letter which ho had cut out of a late issue of tile, Otago Witness (which will appear in our next). He did not think ho need say any more at tho present lime, Both subjects required careful consideration, ami ho had no doubt that in the course of a short time_ tho Fea« thriaton dairy farmers would decide upon taking some definite course of action,. Thore was no neod for hurry. If nothing was done • this winter, pom'othing might bo dono next winter; only the people who mostly suffer by delay were the farmers themselves, . Eventually, he had no doubt that, ono co-operative dairy society would start in Wellington, and tike tho distribution aid disposal of this particular class of produco into its own hands, thereby relieving a score or moro of different distributors, ,wl)0 mast all be paid at the cojt of the' dahy farmers. •' '•••', . ;, The Chairman said Iliat he was sorry to see such a small attendance of- the 'dairy farmers, He .thought thoy slieuld tako more interest in tho inaliter if they considered it likely to turn to their own advantage. A " Mr W. 0. Williams thought that the matter would gradually come right if somo person took the le&d in starting it. Eesolved—That owing to tho unfavorable weather the matter stand adjourned unil the next monthly meeting.

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