FARM AND DAIRY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 3037, 5 June 1895, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY.

Ai an indication of the rapid growth of the butter producing industry in the Rangitikei and Manawatu counties, it is reported thatMhe Palmerston sash and door factory anticipate turning out over 70,000 butter boxes during the present leaion, being doable the number of last season's orders.

The Chairman of Directors of the N.Z. Dajry Union stated at the meeting of shareholders at Palmerston that the Union .had borrowed £10,000 from Messrs Nathan and Co., on £3000 of which the interest was 10 per cent, and the remainder at bank rates.

Mr McKerrow, Land Purchase Officer, has inspected the Woburn, Mt Herbert, and Mt Vernon .Estates, at Waipukuran, with a view of their being acquired under the Land for Settlement Act.

Stringent efforts are being made to reforest Switzerland. More than 40,000,000 young trees, it ia officially reported, have been planted in that country in tbe last seven years. >A. suggestion, says Truth, for New Zealand Arbor Day enthusiasts.

THE WHEAT MARKET.

The reoent tfi» ia tbe price of wheat comes as welcome news' to New Zealand farmers, but especially to merchants who held Btook; and naturally Canterbury farmers are now planting for all they aro worth. It is to be hoped that prioes may hold so as to permit of profitable export. Mr 0. Wood Davis, tbe well known American agriculturist and statieioan, in a recent communication says tbat the production of rye has long been tailing off in ratio to the population of the world, thus throwing an extra demand upon wheat, and that tbis will play a great part in the coming eoaroity and elevation of prices.

,|, | Mr ;>Davig adds— Tbe time I have so long Been in the future is drawing near, and tbe first year that the acre yields of wbpat and rye throughout the world are bat average ones, I firmly believe you will see each prioea for the breadmaking grains as this generation has had no experience of. lam sure you will think me insane when I tell yon that, relatively to requirements, the wprld's productive wheat and rye., lands are deficient by nearly fifty miimra&of acres, and that, with no more than average yields, Europe must more than doable her imports, if tbe grain can be had. ?Tbe London Standard says :— ln Mr Davis' statement there is nothing approaching insanity, though the extra' ordinary wheat yields of the last four years have led people to think it absurd. Average yields per acre of wheat and rye throughout the world would leave stoobs almost exhausted in twelve months, but the substantial rise in price tbat would result would stimulate increased cultivation to such an extent that a fait harvest would give ub superfluous wheat onoe more. There would be no difficulty in increasing the^ wheat area of Europe by twenty million acres in a single season, while North and South America and our colonies oould equally do the rest. It is all a question. of prioe. thefrozb^nlteat tbade. In reply to suggestions made to Mr Natban in regard to bis' frozen meat scheme, tbat gentleman writes in the course of a letter to a Woodvillle resident : —The main tbing for us to consider is whether we oan afford to remain inactive while our trade is being destroyed by baa' management, and the competition of other countries more alive to what is necessary than ourselves. . . . My proposals have met .with very general I acceptance so far. I have reason to believe that it is probable we shall get meat freights put on the same basis as those in Australia without much difficulty, and as this means a saving of from £150,000 to £200,000 a year (or as muoh as I propose to raise, and taore, under the sheep tax), it is worth agitating for. ■MARRAM GRASS. The Mayor of Ohristeburoh and two of of his CQunoillqra repently paid a visit to tbe farm of Mr Mj&ray.of LakeEHesmere, wber£r2oo acres of sand have been sown withtthe marram grass. The grass was found to be in splendid condition, tbe sand being covered with it wherever it had been planted. Tbe roots run along for several foet, and tbe plants or Bookers shoot out from the roots. The visitors were most agreeably surprised at tbe success of the experiment. DAIRY 'PRODUCE REPORT. The following figures give tbe total shipments of ob^Sßeiand butter shipped tbroush the National -Dairy Association of New Zealand for season 1894-95 :— Cheese. Shipped at Gross Tons. Net Tons. FortObalmers t. c. q. l. t. o. q. l. & Lyttelton 2356 18 8 12182 11 1 9 North Island 1508 2 2 01857 512 Totals ...8865 111 8486 16 2 .11 Butter. Port Cbal men 181 0 1 20 107 18 0 0 North Island 2B4o 12 0 262166 78 0 Totals ...2971 12 2 182?74 5 8 0 MEA^. EXPORT. Within the past' 'week there has been circulated the prospectus of tbe Egmont Freezing and 000 l Storage Company, Ltd. This, company it is pointed out, is being , started in the interests of farmers in tbe way of providing a means of getting rid of surplus stook. Snob an opening is urgently needed, as everyone knows, and it is to be hoped tbat the proposed company will satisfactorily fill the bill. At present there is practically no outlet for the disposal'of stook in the northern part of this province. Had it not been that the dairy industry has absorbed a great deal of tbe pasture that otherwise would have had to be devoted to stook fattening, settlers would have been compelled to seek a freßh outlet, or a fresh industry to absorb what would have been an ever increasing quantity of surplus meat. But tbe dairy industry stopped the gap for tba time, and rednoed what wonld have been a glutted market, so tbat there was a demand for the stook fattened by tboße who did not follow dairying pursuits. For some time past, however, there has been a downward tendenoy in tbe market for fat stooki and tbe prospect held, out }B tbat tbe reopening of these : works will improve matters. We hope" so. The company is formed for tbe purpose of acquiring tbe freezing works, leasehold -premises, and plant recently in the occupation of the late Mount Egmont Freezing Company (Limited), at Waitara. Jt is said that when the company is formed direot steamers will visit Taranaki. At present it is urged that it is a choice between tbe present unsatisfactory state of the fat stook market in Taranaki, and tbe possibility of its being improved by the reopening of the Waitara Freezing Works. The names of tbe provisional Jireotora are sufficient guarantee of the bona fides of the concern, and it remains (Continued on page 4) PERSONS OP DELICATE CONSTI'I UTION, who are obliged to abstain from ordinary Coffee, should try Cxxasi's Tjlraxacch or Dandelion Conn, which is recommended by the highest Medical Author. tie> a* a yery valuable beverage for those luffeiing from weak digestion, flituletioy. nervousness, etc. Not to know s cot to have.