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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume 1, Issue VI, 7 June 1905, Page 3

Th-> progress mv^e .int"land settlement duMng.tbe ten j&xts :«nij[ih^i{3lst December lar^t, is shown b^ a^jde^'aa^bf 22.004 m the number of occupied;:,^ acres m the lafid|!ra^r v ltmtivatioa. _lie number of bo'ss^ inor&age^jfl the deoade by 76.934; and bf catgMb^ : 77-i,816 ; tiiit ihe* number of sheep {{llthotffldv'ja dedreasi df 1,95 1,023. Protti M'^Blt^& of stoc_, the ooncluk'pn tn \y be.Mfe'ri^''di. ij&t the coldhy is* becoming less a Woci^^*Vn^<?lcountrys and is developing the dairy ;in'dustcs'v i The deoreise m tbe number otsbeapl'wbijlij partly due *tb the cutting up of v lar^estate^!for closer settle- , msht, |s aisl m accounted for by the depletion of flltcks tor freezing purposes. Thelotof/.ths. do^operativjß Dairy niilk supp'iers at the present .time. doe 3 not appear to be too happy a o^ei;- ;_tie;"l]fe at best i_ laborious, and requires- all tbS remuneration th t can be got. market and fluctuitfon m priceß,:! do .not always result just as hoped for and a slump.sometiraes occur.?. It is currently .Junderst6od that sonic of the co-operative tactorie'', even at the preB3nt low average bait)? allowed for butter fa! 4 .* are scarcely able to ,. maintain the p-ice . . to. suppliers, who a c being asked to forago a considerable parcenta^e df, their .Reason's drawing's, as a coatrihuttoii to b;^laooa « de^letei esohv^»er,. . : - : ,^X : rAyX -;'«■*'-•■