WELFARE OF DAIRYING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 192, 18 July 1925, Page 3

WELFARE OF DAIRYING.

THE DOMINION CONFERENCE. DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION. The third animal Dominion conference of the New Zealand Dairy Farmers’ Uniofi, which opened at Pnkekohe on Wednesday, was attended by 26 delegates, comprising ten from the Wellington district, four from Wairarapa, seven from Central Waikato and five from lower Waikato. The delegates were accorded a civic welcome by Mr R. F. Wilkinson, deputyMayor of Pnkekohe, and other speakers. PRESIDENT’S REMARKS. In acknowledging the welcome, the Dominion president, of the union, Mr Neil Campbell, said the union had 3000 members. It; aimed at speedier and shorter shipping arrangements, a. deputation to Parliament on the moratorium, the Government provison of money for settlers and opening of lands for .settlement. Regarding the land tax, it was the only body that had met the Government on these questions, and it had got rid of the tax on mortgages. The income tax on farms had gone altogether. It was assisting returned soldier settlers in their difficulties. It advocated laboratories for dairy science research. The pork industry could be brought up to £17,000,000 per annum, equal to butter-fat. The Bank of New Zealand had taken on the business. llad it not been for this the price would have been much less on the local market. Other planks in the union’s conference were the Dairy Control Board and a union paper. The necessity for organising was apparent, and they could not have achieved what they had without a. union. Farmers were the only people who had not got compulsory organisation. It was the union’s wish to work with the consumer and the producer. It was not out for exorbitant profits. “Whatever is the party in power, we will have a strong influence on matters affecting dairying,” concluded Mr Campbell.

CONFERENCE- DECISIONS. It being stated that overseas visitors had expressed the very definite opinion that there was a big export market in England and elsewhere awaiting" Now Zealand bacon and pork, it was resolved that the grading and marketing of pork for export be put on a better basis. A remit from the Buekland branch, “that this conference, seeing the rapid progress of the dairying industry, recommends that a Minister for Dairying be appointed,” was carried unanimously. A resolution was passed commending the Agricultural Department for the stringent measures it is taking for the prevention of contagious abortion in dairy cows. A lengthy discussion ensued, dealing with many aspects of the matter of herd testing, and after proposing several remits and amendments, which wore (intimately withdrawn, the following resolution was carried : “That this conference strongly supports the policy of the Now Zealand Herd .Testing Association in asking for one shilling subsidy per cow for all group herd testing associations, and urges the Minister of Agriculture to give earnest and immediate attention to requests by that body.” WHEAT QUOTATIONS. NEW YORK, July 16. Chicago wheat quotations: July 108, September 154*, December 155 J cents per bushel.—A. and N.Z. cable. AUSTRA LI AN MA R KETS. MELBOURNE, July 16. Wheat is nominally 6s 2-Jd to 6s lid. Oats, best milling, 2s Bd, feed 2s 4d. Barley, English, os 6d to 6s; Cape, 4s to 4s 3d: potatoes, £ll 10s to £l2; onions, £l9 10s to £2l.—Press Association. LONDON TALLOW SALES. LONDON, July 15. At the tallow sales 770 casks were offered and 710 were sold. There was a good demand and prices opened 6d to Is per cwt. up and closed at an average advance of 2s. Fine beef, 48s per cwt., medium, 48s 6d ; fine mutton. 48s 6d, medium, 49s 3d. —A. and N.Z. cable. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Cov., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house under date loth instant':-—Tallow: We quote present spot valued for the following descriptions:—Fine mutton, 47s 9d per cwt; good beef. 47s 3d; mixed, 41s Gil; market active. DAIRY PRODUCE. ' Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date of the 16th instant:—Butter: Market firm. We quote N.Z. salted 190 s 087 s), Danish 192 s (1945;, finest Australian salted 180 s (182 s). unsalted 190 s (L3Bs). Cheese: Market, firm. New Zealand white 108 s to 109 s (107 s). coloured 108 s to 109 s (106 s), Canadian 104 s to 108 s (106 s). Total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for June 575,000 cwt., as compared with 412.000 cwt. for the corresponding month last year. Last week s quotations are given in parentheses. Since our report of the 10th instant the only vessel to arrive in Great Britain with New Zealand dairy produce is the Raranga on the 13th instant with 21,599 boxes butter and 13,417 crates of cheese. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London office dated 15th inst: Butter: New Zealand choicest salted, 186 s to 190 s per cwt; unsalted, 192 s to 1945; market slow. Cheese, 107 sto 108 s per owl; market firm.

RABBLTSKtX SALE.. A rabbitskin sale was bold at Dunedin on July 1411). The total quantity cfferod was fully a third lower than last sale’s offering, and this, combined with the comparatively small quantity ol good winter skins which, was forward, caused a very firm market. Poorer grades were about Id dearer, while incoming winters were 2Jd higher, early winters 2jd, second wir.ters to 4d, and first winter 'bucks 6Jd. Outgoing and spotted grades were following is the range of prices:—Runners and suckers up to 32d per lb, summers 40£<i. light racks 42Jd. prime racks early autumns late autumns 693 d, incoming Svintcrs 813 d. early winter bucks 89Ad, early winter does 09tl, " wilder bucks up to 75<i, winter does 70d, lirst winter bucks 95d, liist. winter does 8&iil, prime winter bucks 97<1. prime wilder does 97j.d, spotted wilder 58j}d, outgoing docs 69d, autumn broken 55td second winter broken 56fd, lirst. winter broken up to 64Jd, autumn blacks cOd. second winter blacks lirst, winter blaeks 36d, autumn fawns [ 62Jd, winter fawns 92id, autimms B.S. 54 i, <I. winters B.S. 671 d, springs SGiJd. horsehair 22d. On these prices incoming winters realised £6 2s per 100, early winters £7, lirst and prime winters £7 12s. AUSTRALIAN LOAN. TERMS DISCLOSED. LONDON, July 17. i The Commonwealth five millions loan at 991, with £1 bonus in the first interest, is being underwritten to-day: A loan of fifteen millions will be simultaneously issued in New York.—A. I and N.Z. cable. |