THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1844, 1 May 1884, Page 2

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

We are indebted to Mr Win. Bowron for the following notes :—ln: — In all human enterpi ises gi eat mistakes are often made, but in the course of time things move on, and somehosv shuffle into their right places and do their proper work. Long years of eKpeiience geneially matures undefined plans, and correct our silly notions of men and things. The wisdom of the present will be best seen in consulting the past, and in adopting plans which ages of experience have matured. The nearest way to success in the manufacture of dairy produce would be to take a thousand acres, more or le&s, cultivated or unbroken lands ; build a factory wheie butter could be made, and every description of cheese suitable for the London maiket would be manufactured. Cheddar, Cheshire, Gloster, Wiltshire and Stilton cheese, Wiltshire bacon and condensed milk. To this factory the other factories would apply, and no men or women would be sent out to superintend any department of dairy pioduce without their proper credentials All things connected with it aie very simple and easily accomplished. Once started it would pay itb own expenses, and increase the value of the land for 50 miles round, 100 per cent. Wheat growing will never pay the New Zealand farmer ; bleeding young stock and fattening bullocks is simply ruin.-—" The cow is the mother of blessings," and is the only hope of the farmer. There are in America 11,000,u00 cows, their value I cannot estimate. In the United Kingdom there are 3,000,000 cows, and their milk at Gd per gallon produced £40,500,000. Themteicstb involved in the factory are incalculable. First the land is purchased ; the saw-mills and timber merchants are consulted ; then the builder and skilled laboiner cannot be dispensed with in the factory"; then the pig market. Thus life and breeding is stimulated, and the value of the cow is enhanced 80 per cent. Next men with team 1 * are employed to haul the produce to the nearest station ; then the railway comes in for their share, and the steam company for a big slice. For 100 tons (by the way a small lot, being only the season's pioduce of two small factories), we pay freight and insuiance £1200 steiling. Consider 100 tons of cheese, the moderate produce of 1000 cows, acid at £(i 0 per ton or (ij,d per lb, there is £0000 sterling gathered up fiom giass, which is now and has been completely wasted. And we have plenty of space for a thousand factories, which will pay like nothing else if we go the pi oper way to work. The next important matter is the disposal of our dairy produce. London is the great mait for which our produce must be prepared. If it suits that maiket it will suit the wotld. Let it be rpmembcied that dairy produce is not like bales of wool and casks of tallow. Ship through whom you may, those goods are placed in the hands of a bioker, adveitised and sold in the auction mart. You may place your cheese and butter in the hands of a broker, but they are not sold by auction. The bioker sells to the wholesale cheese merchant and he sells to the retailer ; so, independent of all the piofits taken out of the cheese on this Mdc, which we have referred to, theie are four profits . the per-son through whom you ship, the broker, the wholesale merchant and the retailer. Now this is the problem for the factory to sohe: How many of these intermediate profits can we save? We must do it or our choeii 1 will be sliced away nntil nothing remains. How easy it is. Have your own chambeis and your own agent in London ; consign duect to him and let him sell to the wholesale market and to the retail vendor, and every man that comes with money in his hand. Two chambers will be requited, one on the liver side and another in the centre, where all the fraternity in the piovision line meet at least four tunes every week. The whole matter X simple as can be, and claims the senou-i coiisideiation of all who aie inteiested in the success of the diuv enterpnse. There is not a trade in London so easy to manage as the buttei tiade. Only once establish a reputation for good butter, and you mly land 10,000 firkins every Monday morning and one will not remain on Saturday evening. A report of the Mormon missions in the Sandwich Islands show a membeiship of SfiOO Tick supeiintendant of the Columbus. Ohio, schools says that the rhildreii "most difficult to control come from well-to-do and wealthy families. They aio not \ icions, ilisiespectfnl, or impolite, but aie indoient, and a\eise to doing anything contrary to their own sweet wills." A young oak tree has been planted fit Minister, in the Isle of Thanet, in a field belonging to Eatl Gianville, to mark the spot where St. Augustine ""met King Ethelbert, and preached his first seimon. The loots of the tree were soaked in water brought from St. Augustine's well, which is close by. A French engineer in Brazil has been selected to construct what will be the largest dam in the world. The main dam will be 949 feet long by 58 feet high, and two smaller ones will close side depressions. The work will, it is calculated, back the water over 1500 acres, and retain 14,000,000 cubic metres of water, sufficient to provide for all the cattle of the regions (luring three years, and for the irrigation of 5000 acres of land. The secretary of the Howard Prisoners' Aid Association criticises the American prison system, which he maintains is a great cause of the increase of crime. He says prisoners are overfed and there is a great laxity of discipline. He allages that diets should be model ate, especially for those whose woik is sedentary ; that to overfeed, side by side wfth solitary life, has a most demoralising tendency, defeating the object of prison discipline altogether. Mr John Knox will 'ell at his mart, Hamilton, on Saturday next, tie balance of * genuine stock of watches and jewellery, comprising over £2000 worth. See advertisement. Messrs Clark and Gane will sell on the premises, opposite Rose's hotel, Cambridge, tomorrow (Friday), a bankrupt stock of watches and jewellery, comprising over £5000 worth. See advertisement. Mr J. S. Buckland will sell at the Cambridge yards on Saturday, 10th inst., a large number of useful horses. The next Ohaupo Live Stock Sale will take place on Tuesday, the 13th inst. One Shilling. — Francis J. Shortt's Popular Art Union.— Ten first-class Oil Paintings by celebrated artists. 5000 tickets at Is. The prizes are magnificent and costly. Country subscribers sending stamps or otherwise will ha\e tickets by return post. Enclose stamped envelope for reply. — Fkancis J. Shoktt, WO, Queen-street, Auckland. — [Advt.] Yes ! It is certainly true. Ask any of your friend 1 ' who have purchased there. Garlick and Cranwell have numerous unasked for and very favourable commendations from country customers on their excellent packing of Furniture, Crockery, and Glass, &c. Ladies and gentlemen about to furnish should remember that Garlick and Cranwell's is thb Cheap Furnishing Warehouse of Auckland. Furniture to suit all classes ; also Carpets, Floor Cloths and all House Necessaries. If your new house is nearly finished, or. you are going to get married, visit Garlick and. Cranwell, Queen-street and Lome-street, Auck, land. Intending purchasers ca,n,h,»ve. a catalogue sent free.