THE RESULT OF CO-OPERATION AMONG FARMERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1653, 8 February 1883, Page 4

THE RESU LT OF CO-OPERA-TION AMONG FARMERS.

->JU -f-i ,' f ;;» w — rvii i; >/,a Tiik Southland Fanners' ' Co-operative Association held their annual meeting at lrivoroai-feai cDiv;jBftti|nlijyic Div;j8ftti|nlijyi ;T^finO-ttpn-.. dance was very good. The tallowing are extracts frotri'itlJe.rQportoJ^-V^h-.at an association on co-oper.vlive principles, that harnbvef been tried in tho'cqlonyt and inthoiatje of the* numerous difficul- , tics, prejudices, >ftild -opposition shown inits einßfyo state, should, not only have firmly /established „it*elf,t' but on an average paid-up capital of diG3o> from the day o&its. inauguration", thfi ! 4tli March, to the 31st of December last— barely ten months— should ' also have made, after paying, working expenses, and allowing interest at the r.ite of 7 per cent, per annum on paid-up.capital, in all, £1034 <)s 1 Id, a net profit of £800 15s Id to be dealt with, or 12ti pel" cent, on the average c>'vspitivi employed, is an incoutcstiible fact that will no doubt be looked upon by the farmers of Southland with interest and pleasure in after yeais." The committee have imported Walworth's new patent Eureka grain-dryer, by which almost an unlimited quantity of damp grasB can be dried at a coinx>arativcly small cost, i The dryer will be ready for work by the time the wheat is ready foi' shipment. On the 11th of March last thp number of shareholders was 99, representing 540- shares, and the sharo capital in hand was only £272 13s. The shareholders on the 31st of "December last numbered 303, representing 1876 shares, with a paid-up capital of £103/. Since the close of the financial year, 1 14 shares havo been applied for. The sum of £14,9(57 17s 7d has boon paid in l ailway accounts. The total quantity in tons of* wheat, oats," and flour that has been exported from the Bluff during the past year, ending December, repiebents 11,504 tons, of which the society shipped 2639" t0n5, or 22\S per cent, of the whole for the first nine months of its exist-

Sea-oapt vix's gigs arc carried on a voyage so as to utilise any sea horse that may be caught. Tin: national debt of Oicatßntan now amounts to £763,000.000, an actual reduction in •25 years of 70,000,000. A Cons'TßY editor suggests that persons sending in big eggs will please accompany them by several ordinary si/Hid ones, not for publication, but as <i guarantee of good faith. Last year the Protestants of all denominations in Naw Zealand munbeied 393, 901, and the Roman Catholics GB,!)S J-. A Mongolian* under examination as a -witness at Daylcbtord objected to being termed a Chinaman. He was a trile* born British subject, having Singapore as his native place. An Indiana mob hung a member of the Legislature by mistake for a horse-thief, and when they found it out gave tluee cheers to think they had done so much, better than they expected. Miv>iox\ky enteipriso in New (Jiunoa is attended with danger. Some of the native tribes are skull hunter\ and have no objection to include a nnssionaiy's amongst their A Ni:\v York paper says that a Virginia mule is two pegs above a New York coroner in point ot intelligence and b.vgaciiy, though he doesn't want to hint any eoionei\s feeling. A Mii,\\Ai,uci,i; man h.is applied ior a patent on a fountain pen, which by the pressure of the thumb on a small rubber lull, piojeets a sticun of ink tluough the holder into the face of the iellow who is lookingover your shoulder while you aie vi iting. Tni: editor ol the Key West Dcmovrnl is said to bo only forty inches high and weight, but tliiity-live pounds. "When the man with the club conies in to intciview " the chap who w rote that ai liclc, " the editor of the Denim mi ciawls into the paste-pot and pulls down the lid. Johnny, aged twelve, iau into the house and exclaimed, in well-feigned astonishment, " Oh, ma ' T saw a little baby out here with only two ears and one jioso ?' " (hod gracious !" evehiimod the stiii tied motliei, in a single bieath, throw ing up her hands. " Good jaaeious ' you don't tell me ! The poor little dear ! llowcver did it happen ?" The executioner'.s tarifT in the fourteenth century was lately discos ered in the archives at Darmstadt. For boiling a criminal in oil, the e\ncutioneer icceived tweuty-foiu florins ; if the wietcli was burnt alive, the fee was fourteen florins ; and ten for hanging. To break a man on the wheel co^t six iloiins; the 100 for the rack was five, and the same hum was ehaiged for bi.audiuc; on the slioulder or fotelicul, and lor cutting off tho nose and caiy. Tin. census bureau lias issued a bulletin classifying the population ot the United States in 1880 b.\ nativity. The native bom were : — Whites, 30,813,201 ; coloured, (s,(>:V2,r>'l'l ; foreign born, 6,679,1)13 ; total population, f>0,10.~>,783. Oi the foieign bom '2,772,10!) weie natives of the United Kingdom of Great JJrilain and Ireland, l, | )b'(i,742 of the , (ieiman Empire, 7 17, 0S A of Biiti&h Amciica, If) (.337 of Noi way. 181,729 of Sweden, 1015,1)71 of France, 101,541 of China, and the remainder lcpre&ent all the countiies of the caith. Outkuh, r-\" a Fouoi.MAN : Sam Jolnibing was up again yesterday. "What brings you here this time?"' asked the recorder. "Dc policeman ; dc same what brung me heah last time." " I mean what did you do?" "I was jess 1 passin' a grocery store, when I struck my head agin a ham what was hanging by dc dore. I tuck the ham down to put it somewares whnr it would bo , safe from folks bursting their hi ains out agin it, when de fust I knowd a policeman tiied to get de ham away from me, and bekase i wouldn't let de ham go he jess brung me along too." A OOKKKSPONMJKVT Of OUC of the Ellgli&h trade journals &ays it is a vulgar error to suppose that fruit is necessary to maku jam. He went to a large jam-pro-ducing factory, in which he found that the work was being cauicd on without the aid of fruit at all. Jams of various kinds were being produced before his eyesi— 'currant, plum, apricot, raspberry, aijd gooseberry. Yet neither neither curlanfc, plum, strawberry, apiicot, raspberry, Ivor gooseberry was in tho building. Turnips served the purpose of the iruit. The flavouring matter was extracted from coal-tar, and the resemblance to raspberry and strawbeiry jam was further increased by mixing the boiling compound with small seeds of some cheap innocuous, herb. A common form of sugar is used, and this is the only honest ingredient of the mess. These preserves arc offered as made from ' ' this season's fruits." , A Capita ii " Chinaman atoiy" came to me the other day from the South. On a certain station was a Chinese cook, a clean, handy, skilful fellow, civil, and obliging. The station hands, however, •were '' advanced thoughtists," and they ' { "depivcationised the manager one day to protest again Chinese labour on the station. fl Adit happored the cook had applied for a holiday, and was about to take it', so the manager apparently gave '"^y, ,ihe cook departed, and was succeeded bya'" b,ig lump of an Irishman." ''XJjftler his regime things took a turn with a, vengeance ; atrocious cooking, com"bined with unlimited dirt, was in the h 'pscendan'fc " Remembering their deputation, 1 men grinned and bore it and did not complain to the manager, and ..the only result of their complaints to the 1 iCpok'? was the administration by him of > ' 'ji ! sound thrashing to ' the spokesman. ' Half starved, arid 'driven at last beyond 1 'themselves, they went to' the' manager ,and like Topsey ;' 'fessed." As it ''mppened the OhinathanV holiday! was about up. He returned knowing not y \vliat, HfccU* oo'cured;th6' IrishmaiT lefti< ''and'' y J6lin v ' Mas aga'ih' ifas£alled. ' •' QSis horcor at the state r of, firth* and • disorder .in f t,hp Htchen was 'summed' ttp&'ii d/ pithy '^ir'ty-Englishnian been her<j." His position at the etafcitin was"th6rdughly ttMured, afterwardu, — dsmocletis jin the ffXflttjti t < • " : \ -/"' ' K< 'h " ■ ''' " ■