GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

In connection with tho Horowhcnua A. and P. Association's show holidr-y excursion fares will bo issued from Wellington and Palmerston. The show is to be held at Levin on Wednesday, February 1. Tho excursion fares will no doubt assist the. association in securing a largo attojidance. A capital show programme has been arranged, .i A meeting of shareholders in tho Waitui Dairy Company was . held on Monday evening (says the Taranaki Noivs"). Mr. It. T. Williams, ..chairman, presiding. The Moa Dairy Company recently took over the output, tho factory being turned into a creamery. Mr. Herliliy, ex-chairman of the Mon Dairy Company, addressed tho meeting. Hi?'. spoke of the'position of tho Moa Dairy Company since its inception, .its present financial position, and generally ot tho advantage that would/accrue tp. the shareholders of the Waitui Compviy by becoming associated with it. He referred to the fact that instead of having a highly qualified butter-maker at a largo salary, they would-have only a creamery manager.; the secretary would bo done without; there would bo a! reduction in fuel owing to not run r niu'g a refrigerator; and cartage would be saved. ... .

Tlio second consignment of meat, consisting 'of '4800 carcasses, was (the ■ JWair'arapa _ Age" says}, dispatched froin tlie M'aingawa freezing works in tho early hours'.of Saturday morning, and , was all safely stowed aivay .in the ship at "Wellington by midday. To get tho work on.hand done by tho end of the week, the whole of the: staff were employed on overtime on Saturday, after working full time during the week. The, coming ; fortnight promises to. be an extra, busy one at the works, as already 20,000 sheep and over 400* head of .cattlo have been booked for slaughtering for that- period. '