JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13612, 22 December 1909, Page 5

JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Some indication of what the dairy industry means to Canterbury farmers ts afforded by the fact that the Canterbury Central Co-operative I>airy . Company paid its suppliers during November £ll,oa'J 7.s 3d for butter-i'at, together with £64<> los (kl bonus, uiaKinft a total of ti1',336 2s £>d for the month. i Vrriting on November 1-th. our Lonj do:i correspondent bays :—An imi;orta_nt ■ shipment ot sheep has just Kmt i»r ! New Zealand. Jt comprises one very I choicely bred and tvpieai Souihdown I ram, iam-ha-ed by I\lr l<. N. Bealey, to-- Mr C. Adeane, for service in Ins stud floc-k in New Zealand, and live ram lambs, personally selected lor the same breeder from that well-known Koumey .Marsh deck owned by .Mr A. Finn, of AVestbroke, Lydd. '1 l»' SIX sheep—stud sheep in every sen>e of the i word, by reason of breeding and pexli- | j.Ti t —were tlii'-ped la.st week on ue* iial' of .Mr lv. ly. Ueaiey. Saturdays "'Wairarapa Daily Times" sa\s: —"A local dairyman has tlistoverel what be asserts to i>e a certain cure for ihammiiis. Two ot in* own cows that were suffering; ironi it have heiMi compk'tdy cured, and to certain is lie that the remedy is all that he claims lor it, that he will undertake to e»re iron of charge any cows that may lit' submitted to him ior treatment, mo treatment, he states, is as rapid in its i-iu.t ts as it is simple and effective. Slioidd the cure turn out to be all t;iat ik claims for it, he will have made a discovery that will be almost invaluable and which will be hailed with general satisfaction by all dairy farmers, iiis name and address can be obtained at this oJJk-e."' The recent rush to dairying throughout .Southland is now showing ihe cfle.t on the clhky-o export (telegraphs our InvcTcargill correspondent)-. At this lime last year, the export had JLirely gut into swing, and only three shipments had been dc.«p-.itehe<l before the close of the year, while this season the first consignment went away earlier, and is now followed by a regular fortnightly shi.vmont, five lots having been alnudy despatched. Th? (juantity exported is already nearly double that despatched during the corrcsiionding period of 1908. The che°so industry to date has yielded about £21,21-1 more to Southland than it did during the early part of last season.