NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 14 June 1919, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Considerable discussion occurred at the North. Auckland Dairy Conference on a suggestion that a, greater difference should be made in the price paid for varying grades of cream,* as- an incentive to farmers to strive for the first grade (says the New Zeaalnd Herald^. One delegate said the practice, or Ins company was to make any third grade •cream received at the factory into butter, and send it back to the supplier. "And it serves him right if lie has to eat it," he-concluded.

Mr McCallum's Jersey cow Mountain View's Dahlia has just completed her semi-official test with the splendid record of 604.661b of fat in 365 days. To qualify she required to make 3501b. Mountain View's Dahlia is by Marcus, dam Sweet Marie.

Some of the delegates attending the Farmers' Union Conference at Hastings protested that the farmers were not, as was generally supposed, largely responsible for the increased cost of living. Mr Hebenton, secretary to the Wairarapa Farmers' Union, pointed out that it took six pounds of wool to make the material for a suit of clothes which cost five guineas before the war, but could not now be obtained for less than eight guineas. The increased price that the farmer received for the wool was 2s 6d, certainly not more than 3s, and the remaining £3 was divided between the manufacturer of the tweed and the tailor.

Mr Bennett, of Kaupokonui, has finished up the season with another very fine record. His 28 cows —mostly grade Jerseys—averaged 373.621b of l>utter-fat-for the season. His best cow made 5301b (in 289 days), and his second best 4901b. The eight best cows in the herd averaged 4381b.

Some very fine samples of turnips grown from Superlative seed by Mr J. Christoffel, junr., at Ngaere, have been shown to a Star representative. Two of them, when put on the scale, turned it at 141b and 15£lb respectively. They were well grown and well shaped. The samples were just taken at random from the crop, and appear to be about an average for the whole field.