FARMING ITEMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 545, 15 July 1882, Page 11

FARMING ITEMS.

The “ Otago Daily Times” reports that the N.Z. and A. Land Company have sold all their season’s make of cheese, some 12 to 15 tons, at the highly satisfactory price of per lb. The quality is said to be splendid.

The “ Oamaru Mail” states that “the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have made special arrangements with the Union Steamship Company to convey something like 15,000 tons of potatoes to Sydney.

The “ Timaru Herald ” remarks :—The export of meat from New Zealand'is evidently going to assume very large proportions. When we hear of one Company having undertaken to supply from 150 to 200 tons of frozen mutton in September next, and of direct steamers from London being employed to carry on the trade, we can no longer doubt that this new industry is fairly established, and certain to become important. We cannot help thinking, indeed, that it is growing into magnitude too great for the country at first; and that there is some fear of having to import mutton for our own consumption, just as the people of South Australia —the Egypt of this quarter of the globe—have recently had to import wheat. We hear rumors of contracts for supplying 80,000 carcases of merino mutton annually ; and we have no doubt that such contracts will be easy to be performed when the arrangements for the trade are completed. But we cannot see how anything of the sort is to be done at present. Thesooner theowners of pastoral country—yes, and agricultural country, too, realise the prospects of this frozen meat trade, and make provision for them, the better it will be for themselves and the public.

The dairy and cheese factory which the Hoh. R. Campbell is establishing on his Oroua Downs Estate is now nearly approaching completion.