FARM, GARDEN, AND ORCHARD NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3043, 16 January 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

FARM, GARDEN, AND ORCHARD NOTES.

A Patent Milk Pail.—We (Southern Standard) have seen a new patent steeltin ir.ilk pail, manufactured by Mr T. A. Connor, of Mataura. The article shows originality of conception, and will, wo believe, become one of the best of tho many appliances on the dairy farm. It has only to bo seen to be generally accepted. The can is fitted with a very simple adjustable sieve, and the milk has to he simply poured out into tho cans, already sieved and ready for tho factory. Mr Connor is showing enterprise in other directions, and is just about erecting a tinning factory. The Farmers' Discontent.—Mr John Bookwalter, who owns 60,000 acres of land in Nebraska, proposes to initiate a great reform in farm life at an expense of 100,000dol, to he mot out, of his own purse. His idea is to overcome tho farmers' discontent, wnich he believes to bo due mainly to sooial isolation, by bringing the into a tastefully arranged village near each one's land, instead of having them on tho individual farms. He has already started the experiment on a small scale, and says:— '' I am going to build a town hall and establish a free circulating library." This scheme is in vogue among the farmers of France. Spain, Italy, and Switzerland, and is a great success. France at the Dairy Snow,—The French agricultural papers are irato with the English over the Dairy Show. Le Fermier is indignant about the treatment of a French exhibitor of cheese. It says that there was but one French exhibitor. Abaye, of Tremblay, near Mountrueuel-l' Arjille, who entered in the only class which was not exclusively reserved for British produce. Abaye, paid his entrance fee of £6, but the judges, when they had oximinedhis very carefully manufactured Caraembert and Pont 1' Eveque cheese, placed them where the public could not see them. The packages had no tickets corresponding with the number in the catalogue, and besides, they were surrounded with empty packages, with which they were confused. Le Fermier adds that tho English are ardent free traders, everyone knows ; but they detest foreign competition, and try to efface it by all possible means."