DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1853, 22 May 1884, Page 2

DAIRY INDUSTRY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Tis said that if the country was opened up and we had more settlers on the land, we should have a larger population to pay taxes and consume excisable article, and that would brine back prosperous times once more to the farmer. There can be no doubt but that the greater the population, so must there be a greater demand for excisable articles and home productions, and if the increased population is piosperous, there would be greater ease'in paying taxes ; but if there is to be new blocks of land opened up, and farming settlers are to be largely increased, then as a nacural sequence they will go on increasing the present overproduction of farm produce. Mr Bowron says everbody wants to sell and nobody wants to buy ; if so, we are producing t< o much for the demand by consumers, li the facts were not so there would be more buyers, and we should obtain better price 3 for our proriuce. Mr Bowron says wheat growing will not pay the farmers of New Zealand, and that breeding young sheep and fattening bullocks is simply ruiu. Not very long »gQ ho advised cheese-making— so we all got cheese on the brain — hue now, what with cheese that can't be si 1 1 and cheese waiting " until buyers come " and ask the directors to sell it as a favour at the prices obtained by other factories, next season will see a much less quantity taken to the factories ; probably some may collapse for want of milk. Mr Bowron says tho cow is the mother of blessings, and is the only hope for the iwnwra. Well, tb,e feww tow bay

these mother blessings vory cheap in tho market at present. Many of us who have had cheese on the brain are still suffering from its effects, and the best remedy I can think of would be for these cheese factory directors to send round to those who have supplied the milk some properly filled np bank cheques ; they would diffuse pleasure and hope in all the hearts of those who received them, and have nn excellent elfecfc in tending to increase next season's supply of milk. Mr Bowron says we must try to save some of the intermediate profits, or our cheese will be sliced away until nothing remains, and that there is not a trade in London so easy to manage as the butter trade : only once establish a reputation for good butter, and you may sell 10,000 lirkins every week. How nice that roads ! He says we have plenty of space for 1000 factories, which will pay like nothing else if we go the proper way to work. In, starting new companies we often put men in as directors who do not know the proper way to go to work, and probably some of them will find during tho next three years that playing at being a director is rather costly. It is also s.iia that shipowners should be asked to take half the present freights for cheese to England. Why don't the directors of cheese factories combine in a petition to the Premier to charge half the present railway freights to Auckland. Surely if it is worth while to pay a cheese factory inspector it must be worth the while of Government, by reducing freights, to assist in establishing these factories on a safe foundation. If put to the Premier as it ought to be, he would see his way to charge cheese at, say, £1 per ton to Auckland. — I am, &c. f J. Newlaxd.