FARMING AND COMMERCIAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 221, 16 August 1928, Page 5

FARMING AND COMMERCIAL

HOPELAND’S FINE RECORD.

GREAT COMPETITIVE SHOWING,

A fine record was established by the Homelands Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., last season both in regard to the quality of its produce and the butterfat payments to suppliers. Throughout the season the company’s cheeso graded an average of 93.755, the highest of any port in tho North Island, and of a total of 2318•’crates no less than 2245 were certified to as “finest.”

In addition to securing third prize against the world at the great London Show, the factory (the manager of which is Mr L. Heavns) took the following honours in New Zealand: New Plymouth: Of 5 entries the company won 2 firsts, 2 seconds and one fourth; also the cup presented by the Shaw, Savill, Albion Shipping Co. Dannevirke: Of 5 entries the _ wine were 2 firsts, 2 seconds and one third ; also the Tamaki Dairy Company’s and tho Armstrong Cups. Carterton: Three entries with three firsts; also the Licensed Victuallers’ Cup. Hamilton : Twelve entries, won 7 firsts, 2 seconds, 2 thirds and one fourth; also the Lonsdale and Murgatroyd Cup. Hawera: Seven entries, won six firsts and one third; also the Lonsdale and Shaw Savill Cups, and scored second for the Henry Lane Cup. Palmerston North; Nine entries, won 4 firsts, 3 seconds, one third and ono fourth; also won the New Zealand Shipping Company s, the Murgatroyd, and Andrew Clement Cups and scored second in tho Factory Managers’ Cup. The average payment for butterfat worked out at Is 8d per pound, while this season, as the directors have sold a considerable portion of the output of the first six months at lOd per lb., the intention of the board is to make monthly advances ofls 9d on all butterfat.

PAPATAWA DAIRY COMPANY.

ANNUAL REPORT. The sixteenth annual report of the Papatawa Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, reads as follows: —During the year wo vvero ablo as a result of tho finaJ. winding-up of the cheeso pool to make an additional payment of 3d instead of lid per lb. (as was anticipated in the report), the result of the pool being much more satisfactory to tho industry than wo word led to believe it would bo. During the past season tho output of cheese was disposed of at 9d per lb. f.0.b., the question of disposal having been dealt with by suppliers at 'meetings specially called. Payment has been made in full, viz.. Is Bd. per lb. for butterfat, and jt is now proposed to pay the usual dividend of 5 per cerlt. The output of cheeso is a record for tho factory and tho indications are that this will bo eclipsed during tho coming year. The outlook is again very promising and the sales of cheeso have been made up to 9£d to tho end of December and 9id for the season. It is proposed to secure your opinion on tho question of selling or consigning next season’s output. Statistics.—Milk for cheesemaking, 4,684,5891b5.: milk separated, 77,1221b5.; butter-fat for cheese, 195,2741b5.; butterfat separated, 32801b5.; cheese made 500.4611b5. (223 j tons); milk to lib cheese 9.351b5.; cheese to lib butterfat, 2.561b5.; average test, 4.16.

FRIESIAN-JERSEY CROSSING. A writer in tho Taranaki _ Daily Nows says:—“l have noticed lately in both daily papers and monthly farm papers that farmers have been recommended to purchase Friesian bulls to mate with their grade Jersey herds, with the object of breeding a cow that will combino heavy production with high-testing. This recommendation is purely theoretical and has no practical experience to back it up; indeed, experience teaches that it is a wicked cruelty which should be dealt with by tho Society lor, tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Ihe mating of Friesian bulls with Jersey (both grade and pedigree) cows has been adopted in a few instances, and almost always with disastrous results.. In various cases the cows have been killed in tho effort to give birth to a calf which was far larger than nature over intended tho cow to carry, and in tho others when tho calf was taken away whole or in parts tho cow was so strained that it was ruined for at least ono making season. Those who adopt this cruel and most unnatural practice dosorve to suffer financially, as they most. assuredly will. Then, again, whero tho use of a Jersey bull on Friesian cows has been tried with tho samo object in view, results have been most disappointing. Perhaps tho violent out-cross, or lack of affinity between tho two breeds, may bo tho cause, but tho result in 90 per cent, of tho cases has shown that the progeny havo combined in the development of a cow far inferior to either of the breeds from which it has sprung. Apparently, it is a cross that does not blend. Just as well try to mix oil with water. If a dairy farmer does wish to cross two dairy breeds, let him cross those of equal size. For instance, farmers of nearly 20 years ago will well remember those groat producing cows bred by tho late Mr R. F. Cornwall by mating a pedigree Jersey bull with his pedigree Ayrshire cows. “Joan” was ono of the issue., Sho became the unbeaten champion dairy cow at all of tho Taranaki shows and _ later, when owned by Mr Montifioro, carried all before her in tho Waikato. By all means mix these two wonderful dairy breeds, which have so much in common, but for pity sake shoot a black and white bull if ho enters your paddock. Only iast year I lost a beautiful Jersey cow owing to a black and white bull hopping over .my fence. No Jersey born could, havo given birth to tho calf, and this, I find, is tho experience of others. If you can find space to publish this, Mr Editor, it may save somo poor brother cocky from disaster.”

FRUIT INDUSTRY.

ORDERS FOR IMPORTED CASES.

r Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. Tho total orders for imported fruit cases for the 1929 season will reach fully one million. The New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation has orders for 800,000, of which 600,000 are being taken by Nelson. Practically all the imported eases are used for the export trade, but of the total fruit produced in New Zealand two-thirds aro packed in l'ocally-mado cases and one-third in imported cases.

AGRICULTURAL CLUBS.

FAVOURED BY AUTHORITIES.

That boys’ and girls’ agricultural clubs do not wholly adhere to the line of procedure it is desired to encourage is indicated by tho Director of Agriculture, who says:— “The truo aim in agricultural instruction in primary schools is not to produce, the biggest vegetable that can be produced, but to develop in tho pupils a scientific attitude towards agriculture. The boys’ and girls’ club movements seeks to develop tho practical rather than the scientific side of agricultural instruction, but at the samo time it is not the policy of this department to discourage their development. Tho new syllabus of instruction provides for tho encouragement of tho clubs, and tho Council of Education is also in favour of them. The development of club work is primarily the function of the Department of Agriculture, which provides each year a substantial sum for the fostering of boys’ and girls’ agricultural clubs, while tho Education Department cooperates to the extent of providing the services of its agricultural instructors, whereever necessary, for tho supervision of tho work.” CANTERBURY CROPS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC FIGURES. . A huge increaso has been recorded in the amount of grain carried on the railway in Canterbury this season. Tho total to date shows that 322,259 sacks have been carried in excess of the number carried in tho corresponding period last year. This represents an increase in the value of grain carried of about £300,000. As tho railways carry practically all tho grain grown, tho figures give some indication of tho increase in tho yield last season.

Tho steady increase in the yield during the past two seasons can be guaged from the following figures, which show the amount carried in 1926, 1927 and 1928 respectively for each season up till July 21 of each year:— Year. Sacks. 1926 ... 778,085 1927 1,405,314 1928 1,727,573

SHIPMENTS OF MEAT FROM SOUTH AMERICA.

Tho Now Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received a cablo from its representative at Buenos Aires, South America, advising tho following shipments to the United Kingdom for tho fortnight ended 2nd August, 1928, from Argentine and Uruguay : —243,600 quarters chilled beef, 18,500 quarters frozen beef, 31,120 carcases frozen mutton, 41,107 carcases frozen lamb. The quantity shipped to , tho Continent of Europe during the samo period was as fol-. 10w5: —62,546 quarters frozen beef, 4745 carcases frozen mutton, 319 carcases frozen lamb.

WAIKATO MARKET REPORT. The Farmers’ Co-operative Co., Ltd. report: —Beef: The market is very firm and there has been a good rise during the last fortnight, best prime ox making 40s per lOOibs., and prime cow and hoifer up to 38s. With little offering wo are likely to see very high prices during spring and the early summer. Fat Sheep : Sufficient is coming forward to meet tho demand, and although prices are firm there has been no rise lately. Store Sheep : There iq still a strong inquiry for good ewes in lamb, wethers and hoggets, the latter class being hard to obtain. Store Cattle : Tho yardings have been small with a very strong domand for young and grown steers, also good storo cows. There appears to bo a big shortage of male cattle, and it looks as if we will see very high prices this spring. Dairy Cattle: Good dairy herds and good springing heifers aro meeting with keen competition. Pigs: Prices for baconers and porkers aro good; there is also a good demand for big stores, but weaners and slips are still very low. Horses: Several horses sales have been hold, but only good useful farm sorts are meeting -with any competition. Heavy horses and the light class aro hard to quit. Wo quote: —Bullocks, priino heavy, £l4 10s to £l6 10s; medium £l2 to £l3 10s; cows prime heavy, £ll 5s to £l3. medium £8 to £9 10s, unfinished £5 to £6 life; heifers prime £lO 10s to £l3; good store cows £4 15s to £5 ss; cull cows £2 to £2 10s; steers, 4-years forward £8 to £9 ss; 4-ycars Btorcs £8 to £8 10s; 3-yea.r stores £6 10s to £7 15s; 2-year steers £5 10s to £6 ss; yearling steers, good £4 5s to £5; choice Jersey and Jersey cross weaner heifers £5 5s to £6; heifers, Jersey 2-year (in calf( good £ll 10s to £ls; wethers, prime heavy £2 to £2 ss; wethers, prime medium 36s to 38s; ewes, prime heavy 33s 6d to 355; ewes, prime medium 27s to 30s; hogget6, prime fat 26s 6d to 30s; wethers, 4-tooth stores 34s to 36s 6d, 2tooth stores 30s to 325; breeding ewes, sound mouth 30s to 355, aged 22s 6d to 28s, 2-tooth 30s to 355; hoggets, best woolly stores 24s to 28s, medium woolly stores 22s to 235, best shorn stores 22s to 245, medium shorn stores 20s to 225, small stores 16s to 18s. Baconers, prime £4 10s to £4 16s, medium £4 to £4 ss; porkers, best £3 to £3 3s; slips 22s to 255; weaners 8s to 14s; good stores 30s to 355. Horses: Draughts, heavy £2B to £34; medium £25 to £35; spring cart sorts £l6 to £l2; hacks and harness horses £5 to £lO.

STOCK MARKET.

Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows:—We hel.d our special hogget salo at Fordell on tho' 14th inst., when sheep came forward well up to advertised numbers. Tho hoggets as a whole were in good condition, and practically all off turnips: Thero was a good attendance of buyers from Marton, Feilding, Palmorston North, and surrounding districts. Tho bidding was keen and well sustained and practically tho wholo yarding was disposed of under tho hammer at prices satisfactory to vendors. Tho following is the rango of pricos:—Best cwo woolly hoggets, 34s to 38s 2d; medium owe hoggets, 28s lOd to 345; best wether hoggets, 32s to 335; medium wether hoggets, 26s Id to 31s Id. TARANAKI OILFIELD, LTD. Per Press Association. GISBORNE, Aug. 14. Taranaki Oilfields report: “Gisborno No. 1 well: 6fin diameter casing run to 2950 foot; now cleaning out. Gisborno No. 2 well; Drilled to 1440 feet in sandstone and shale;' lOin diametor casing to 1400 foot.

CHICAGO WHEAT PRICES. (Australian Press Association.) NEW YORK, Aug. 13. Chicago wheat quotations aro as follow:—September, 111 cents per bushel ; December, 116; March, 120; May, 122.

QUALITY FALLS OFF.

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER IN ENGLAND,

PRESERVATIVES BANNED.

MELBOURNE, July 28. Further particulars were given by tho Minister for Markets (Mr Paterson), to-day about tho decision to send the Commonwealth supervisor of dairy exports (Mr P. J. Carroll) to London to investigate export conditions for Australian butter. Mr Paterson said that during tho past season tho department had been concerned about the condition in which certain Australian butter had arrived in England. “Last season,” he explained, “ the British Government prohibited for the first timo the importation into Great Britain of butter containing any preservative, and it is possible that this restriction has affected to some extent the keeping qualities of some of our blitter.

“The reports from tho Commonwealth dairy officer in London in the past season have indicated that butter has not been arriving in England in the same satisfactory condition in whioh it left Australia, and to investigate tho cause of the trouble Cabinet has decided that an officer, fully qualified in tho technical on manufacturing sides of the industry, should go to Great Britain to endeavour to discover the causo of defects in Australian butter, and to suggest remedies for their removal.”

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS

COMPARISONS WITH PREVIOUS WEEK. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, Aug. 9. The Bank of England returns for the week ended August 9, as compared with those for the week endod August 2, aro

SHORT LOANS AND BILLS.

Short loans, 34 per cent., samo as last woek; throe months’ bills, 4i per cent., compared with 4 7-32 per cent, fast week.

CONSOLS AND COLONIAL STOCKS. The following tablo gives quotations for consols and colonial inscribed 6tocks, comnared with those of August 2:

f Higher. *Lower.

APPLE MARKET.

(Australian. Press Association. —United Service.) LONDON, Aug. 15.

Tho apple market is easier owing to plentiful supplies lof Homo and Continental soft fruits and fairly heavy arrivals of Californian and Tasmanian Sturmcrs. They are in rather forward condition, prices ranging from 8s to 11s 6d.

as follow's: — August 9. August 2. Note circulation .. 136,778,000 137,216,000 174,432,000 173.659,000 Reservo 57,404,000 56,793,000 Govt, deposits 12,914,000 12,171,000 Other deposits Govt, securities 104,531,000 103,540,000 29,061,000 29,201,000 Other securities 49,099,000 48,424,000 Proportion of re 48.80 48.50 servo to liabilities

Prico. Variation. £ s. d. s. d. Consols, 2i p.o 55 10 0 2 6* British, 5, War Loan ... 102 5 0 Same Conversion Loan, 3i ... • 77 15 0 2 6* Com’wealth, 5£, iy22-27 98 13 9 3 9+ Com’wealth, 6, 1931-41 ... 101 5 0 — Victorian, 3, 1929-49 71 16 3 3 9* Victorian, 3j, 1929-49 ... 78 7 6 2 6* Victorian, 5j, 1930-40 ... 101 0 0 10 0* Victorian, 5, 1932-42 ... 99 6 3 1 3+ Victorian, 4§, 1940-60 ... 94 5 0 2 6* N.S.W., 4, 1933 93 10 0 2 6+ N.S.W., 3, 1935 76 2 6 Same N.S.W., 3£, 1930-50 ... 86 5 0 Same N.S.W., 5g, 1922-32 ... 101 8 9 1 3+ N.S.W., 6£, 1930-40 ... 101 13 9 3 9+ N.S.W., 6, 1930-40 101 11 3 8 9+ Queensland, 3£, 1930 ... 96 16 3 1 3+ Queensland, 3, 1922-47 ... 71 10 0 5 0+ Queensland, 6, 193U-4U ... 100 17 6 2 6t New Zealand, 4, 1929 ... 99 17 6 Same Now Zealand, 3£, 1940 . 87 15 0 2 6+ New Zealand, 3, 1945 ... 80 0 0 1 3+ New Zealand, 6, 1936-51 106 17 6 1 3* S. Australia, 3£, 1939 ... 84 10 0 2 6* S Aus., 3, i916 or after 60 15 0 2 6* S. Australia, 6A, 1930-40 101 15 0 3 9+ Tasmania, 3, 1920-40 81 12 6 7 6+ Tasmania, 34., 1920-40 ... 85 15 0 5 Of Tasmania, 6£, 1930-40 ... 101 7 6 Same W. Australia, 3s, 1929-35 89 10 0 7 6+ W. Australia, 3, 1915-35 86 15 0 Same W. Australia, 6, 1930-40 100 16 3 Same