FARMING NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 1914, 7 September 1921, Page 2

FARMING NOTES.

(By "Agricola.") "Dairy cattle still pursue meir triumphant course," reports the Waikato Farmers' Auctioneering 1 Company, which adds: "Cows and heifers at profit, or close thereto, are in strong and consistent demand."

The price of store and weaner pigs has increased by leaps and bounds in the Waikato district.

The Feilding Farmers' Freezing Company has received advice that 197 bales of slipe wool, shipped by the Athenic, have averaged 9id per lb.

Lord Nortlicliffe expressed the opinion last week that the butter lie had had while in New Zealand was the best he had ever tasted. He thought steps should be taken to reach the consumers direct In England, as lie had not been able to procure the New Zealand article there.

The freezing companies have cited their employees before the Council of Conciliation, and have filed proposals for a new award. The proposals are based upon the 1919 award. The Wellington district dispute will probably be heard by the Conciliation Council on Saturday next.

Buyers from Vesteys and Armours arc at present in the Wairarapa. One of these is said within the last few days to have purchased 400 head of cattle at about £4 12/ a head.

The Feathcrston Dairy Company has decided to continue manufacturing butter while the price remains favourable.

There was brisk bidding for a Jersey heifer on the drop at the last Carterton stock sale. She had a beautiful show, but the owner refused to give any guarantee. The man who paid £ls for her is now lamenting, as the heifer proved to be a one-teater.

The net profits of the British and Argentine Meat Company, Limited, for the past trading- year were £341,500, as compared with £389,500 in IHI9. Dividends at the rate of 12* per cent, woe paid.

A ballot taken amongst some 1200 members of the Meat Packers' and Tin-canning Employees' Union has decided in favour of amalgamation with the Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union. This is said to bring the total strength of the A.M.I.E.U. up to 13,600 members.

A cable precis of a departmental committee's report on the Smithfleld market says tliat it is adequate for present requirements, and there is room for extension when needed. Itcferring to other matters the report says that the suggestion to restrict the period during which meat is allowed to remain in cold storage needs careful investigation from the economic and scientific standpoint before adoption.

Reporting on the beef market, the Waikato Farmers' Co-operative Auctionering Company says:—Good supplies have been marketed, but values have again declined; 30/ for prime ox seems to be the standard of butchers' operations, and judging by 'the amount of beef offering, it seems unwise to anticipate much better treatment.

There is very little inquiry for store sheep in the Waikato just now, and practically none are offering.

A Wellington telegram says: Cablegrams continue to show a sagging butter market in London. It does not, however, follow that the new make of New Zealand butter, which will arrive in London in November, will realise no more than current rates. The new butter will arrive at the beginning of and all through the northern winter up to the April sales, and is confidently expected to realise a consistent equivalent of 2/ to 2/1 per lb f.O.b. in bulk. Government butter referred to in the cable is old butter, long in store. It is understod that all offers for the purchase of new butter for shipment overseas have now ceased, and thus practically all the exportable surplus will go Home on consignment. The Vancouver market will also be kept in view. The local wholesale price for butter today is 2/12 Per lb in pats and delivered. Retail business is being done to-day at. 2/ to 2/3.

A sample of lucerne grown by Mr F. E. Mytton, of Woodstock, Thorpe, has been left at the Nelson "Mail" office. Mr Mytton had been using his drill, sowing lucerne for a neighbour, and a small quantity of seed was left in the seed box, and when sowing swedes on the hillside, he sowed the lucerne broadcast, resulting in an excellent "take" coming up with the swedes. In due course the whole crop was fed off with sheep. The sample shows that growth since the sheep were turned off. some seven weeks ago. Some of the plants are 13 inches in height. This experiment has so demonstrated to Mr Mytton that lucerne can be grown on the hills at Woodstock that he has decided to plant out an acre this season.

NEW ZEALAND LEADS THE WOULD. It is true that in the design of the mechanical milker «New Zealand has led the world (remarks the "N.Z. Dairyman"). We know that the mechanical milkers sold in New Zealand and Australia were built and designed here, but we learn from a visitor from America that most of the milking- machines sold in foreign countries were designed by New Zealanders. In the United States and Canada the most popular milking 1 machines are the I>e Laval, Ltd., and Charple's Universal, Lid. Loth of these machines were designed b> New Zealanders workingI in conjunction with engineers and de- ■ signer.* of the different companies. Norman .1. Daysh, of Wairarapa, is responsible for the Do Laval, and has disposed of liis American and European patents to the J)e Laval Company, the world famous manufacturers of the Alfa Laval separator. The other milking- machines mentioned \vi vr all designed by Arthur C. McCartney, a Wanganui College boy. He Is now president of the Pino Tree Milker Company, and has done more than any one in America to advance the design of the mechanical milker, in fact, in the opinion of this gontlcman, A. >'. McCartney and Norman Daysh. put the mechanical milker on the map i,i the United States and Canada. It is another illustration of the fact that New Zealanders, given the scope to do big - things, can do them as well as any citizen of any country. Another point must not be lost sight, of. These two New Zealanders went to America, and were treated splendidly by the officials of