FAULTY CURING ROOMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 76, 23 December 1907, Page 5

FAULTY CURING ROOMS.

■ O.no'pf the'most important questions' which eh'eeso companies will havo to tackle beforo long, will ho .that of ".providing cooling, rooms with a proper .temperature. .lt.-,is: a (act that' at tho. present timo tho cooling rooms [of many of tho cheese factories' in the Dominion aro lacking in somo: important essential,, without, .which tho .manufactured article cannot'bo turned out as.it' should be.. ljpn roofsrand no ceilings,' single walls .'awl no insulation, and wooden instead, of -conereto' Hoots, '.seem .tp •ho.- in .use in many • of, the factories, to' the' deterioration [of .t'ho's-Y'ck (writes our [Wairarapa correspondent).' Tho farmers interested' forget, in .providing .these 'buildings, that, they are'laying : thc ji|oimdwofk'of'a lo's's'in other directiona. .

!•>/ ~. . K RANDOM NOTES. : <■' ' '-(From --'our'•.•/Travolling'-Correspondent:)' ,; ' ; There, -is' a' .very peculiar''-instance of what must been • volcanic . action on ■ Mr. Alexander's, station, at. tho head, of the Waikare,,'—' a lingo ..papa cliff', almost as qttaight;as-,if'it-had'been cut down. The liiriil .'in /front - ; hail ■■■ evidently' dropped [■ away from - .;'this-; clifl,- with .the. result that- it was K'-.series.;rif'what ,orip might.call folds -and Hummocks,' 'It' reminded mo very much-'nf the. :"t'aipo's" .iir the Te ; Nui'district,- -but those'aro.saridstohe instead of papa. ' Lots'cif littlo-.;ln.k'es !■ h.ech -formed. They .are very.deep, rand, give a -pretty, look to the otherwise -.'rough', country. ' " '."".' , '"There/is'ho- doubt 1 a good deal - of'limo in ; 'blue papa, - the'water- which ■ comos: out-of it.'/being; very-hard. - . I. remember seeing, Way back-lip the Turakina, some large slab3:.\of';jimestone. found ;a house, which were' taken from . a creek running through bliiepapa.- They had been formed 1 by the deposit of -lime,. in solution.; : A/farmer, showed mo'the egg of a kiwi. He ;■ had • found the host under .a.-chimp'of fern'in the bush. It seems they only lay a couple of eggs, nhd I- should 'say.it- is, just as, well,. for: they are an- enormous, size.:. The bird -is not much bigger than an ordinary hen," but-, the. egg'l ,saw was; bigger than, a goose long,' and quite rdurid'at each - 'end,-and a very pure white. • I ; am told the', cock bird does ,the. hatching, the hen considering that to lay such eggs is sufficiently.'hard work as "her share of. the business.,.' - '•"■.•" ■""' '■'.;' ..I-saw the best lamb:; I ha.vo noticed 1 this season on Mr. Muldrock's farm. The late shearing throughout, the country, this season will have the.; effect of filling .the fleeces with lituwai, or biddy-bid; I saw.a lot of sheep, almost brown on the brisket already. Some say it does not hurt the wool, as tho burrs are iri'.a state. - of., dust when' the bales are-:opened at Home. - On the other hand, the manufacturers say they don't get it all out, .and.that it affects the.dveing.process. Buyers', therefore, make a difference .in price; when purchasing-wool' infested with iituwai.- i'A large number of sheep farmers endeavour-to ; have the shearing over before the'weed'is ,about-. : • •>l saw a bush-fire.on Mr. Birch's property. It was-inot .a large patch,, ..hut must have burned;., we 11,., as there.-was. a gopd .smoke. This'.is;the first - I have seen.' this season'. Burris .are set going now -much earlier than twenty-five - , and thirty years ago, when one novej; '•dreamed of. firing his bush tilLMarch. .Thejchange has,no.doubt resulted from tho change-of'our. cliniato. There is now ho certainty "about; having a fine February ■or March, - so .'as soon as.-the felled .bush /will is; set-..alight; ' To my riiind,'this is largely'.'the. reason why ..burns are not. so Clean as.in.the ol'ddays.; They are got off before, the'timber is sufficiently dry. At the Same',time, there are 'now so many .thistles springing..up-, among ,the fallen timber, and s'o.'.-inuoh second growth on account of tho Tvetter.iwea,ther, that settlers.are almost com■pellod i'to burii off sooner, now than-thirty years -ago.•'■"■' • ■'!;. - ■''