JOTTINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1213, 31 May 1895, Page 5

JOTTINGS.

The Lord Chief Justice of England has decided that a warrant of the purity of Australian butter given by the importers exonerated a Gosport merchant who was fined by a lower Court for selling adulterated butter. Though the article contained 17 per cent, of foroign fat, it had not been proved when the adulteration took place.

The Council of the Chamber of Commerce will shortly consider the proposed alteration by the Railway Department in discontinuing the tallying of wool arriving by rail at the Harbour Board sheds. , The Ha*bour Board and the consignees of wool state that there will be great confusion and inconvenience as to responsibility of wool that may be lost if, the proposed alteration is made.

It was decided at a meeting of the committee of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association on the 23rd that the Minister of Agriculture be requested to call a conference of delegates from all the agricultural and pastoral societies, farmers' clubs and export meat companies of the Colony to consider some such measure as that proposed by Mr J. D. Nathan for' regulating the markets for frozen meat, and formulate a system of dealing with the matter for the improvement of our export produce trade.

Mr E. W. Mills, president, occupied the chair at the monthly meeting of the committee of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association on the 23rd. Mr W C. Mullins, manager of the Co-operative Farmers' Alliance, was elected to fill a vacancy on the committoe. It was decided that a deputation, consisting of the president and Messrs Millward, Bidwill and Stuckey, should wait upon the Government in order to suggest that the Hon Mr. Ward be cabled to to ask him to obtain all available information regarding the frozen meat trade in England, in order to lay the same before the conference. On the motion of Mr J. Stuckey, it was decided to call the attention of the Government to the danger of infection of pleuro-pneumonia from cattle brought from Australia.

Mr Holderness, Inspector of Stock, intends to have the beach between the mouth of the Waimakariri and Sumner searched, in case the body of the bullock which died on the Perthshire, and was also to have been thrown: overboard, should come ashore.'

. Under the direction of Mr Gilruth, savs the Clutha Leader, all the pigs of Mr J. C. Anderson at Stirling were destroyed, as well as the buildings with which they had. come in contact. This is in consequence of the outbreak of swine fever. Regulations are gazetted this week for the eradication and prevention of the spread of disease among swine.

At a meeting of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce on Monday the decision of the Railway Department to discontinue the practice of tallying wool from the trucks into the Harbour Board's sheda was considered, and it was decided that a deputation representing the Chamber and the merchants interested in the wool trade should wait upon the General Manager of Railways and urge reasons against the proposed change, the deputation to consist of

Messrs E. Pearce, T. J. W. Gale, A. H. Miles, Captain Rose, T. H. Hanna, W. Millward, Mullins and W. Ferguson, with power to add to their number.

The following- is a tabulated statement, showing" the recent reductions of railage on chaff and firewood from stations on the Wellington section to the Wellington station :

Messrs George Thomas and Co. have been advised of a further advance of £1 per ton on flour throughout New Zealand. Millers' prices are now £9 per ton f.0.b., or equal to £9 10s in Wellington for 200's, £lO for 100's, £lO 5s for 50's, and <£lo 10s for 25'b. • ■ n . . | • The local agents for the Shaw,, Savill and Albion Company have been advised that the Gothic left Bio for Plymouth on Wednesday afternoon with her cargo of frozen meat in good condition; and that the Matatua left the same port for England on the afternoon of the 25th, hermeat being also in good condition. As an indication of the rapid growth of the butter producing industry in the Eangitikei and Manawatu counties, it is reported that the Palmerston sash and door factory|Janticipate turning out over 70,000,butter, boxes during .the present season, being double the number of last .season's orders^ A letter has been received from the secretary of the New South Wales Sheep'.breeders'Association by the agricultural of the Canterbury Times, conveying ;& pressing invitation to New Zealand sheepbreeders to exhibit at the Association's -inaugural show in Sydney, opening on •June 29th. •■' ',.'•...'. • • The letter states that it is to the interest of breeders to exhibit freely, as many Australians who have country suitable for crossbreds are looking forward to the show for an education in the merits of English breeds, most of them being unacquainted "with any other sheep than the merino, and »ot a few of them made bad bargains in purchasing mongrel-bred sheep at the two previous sales. The letter also asks the recipient to ascertain and forward the oiames of qualified judges of longwool and .Down, sheep who are going over for the ishow and the sales, also to receive entries.

This is a good agricultural creed, -drawn up by a convention of Canadian agriculturists. Farmers should learn it off by heart, and practise it in their lives:—" We believe in small farms and thorough cultivation ; we believe that the soil lives to eat, as well as the owner, and ought, therefore, to be ■well manured; we believe in going to the bottom of 'things, and, therefore, deep ploughing and enough of it—all tlie better if it be a subsoil plough ; we believe iu large crops, which leave the land better than they found it, making both the farm and the farmer richer at Once; we believe that every farm should own a good farmer; we believe that the fertiliser of any soil is ;a spirit of industry, enterprise and iintelligence—-without these, lime, gypjaum and guano would be of little use. ~We believe in good fences, good farm good orchards, and good chil'dren enough to gathei the fruit; we in a clean kitchen, a neat wife "in it, a clean dairy, and a clean conscience; we believe to ask a man's advice is not stooping but of much benefit; v we believe that to keep a place for everything, and everything in its place, saves many a step, and is pretty sure to lead to good tools, and to keeping them in order; we believe that kindness to stock, like good shelter, is saving of fodder; we believe that it is a good thing to keep an eye on experiments, and note all, good and bad; we believe that it is a good rule to sell grain when it is ready; we believe in producing the best butter and cheese, and marketing it when it is ready."

Mr Gordon, the Queensland Chief Inspector of Stock, has written to the New South Wales Stock Department in reference to his recommendation to woolgrowers to substitute boracic acid for tar as a dressing for shear cuts on sheep, the tar being objected to by the "English manufacturers. He encloses a letter by Mr James Irving, Government Veterinary Surgeon, in regard to the best means of applying it. The boracic acid may be applied in three ways—lst, by dusting it on to the wound from a peppei-box or bottle; 2nd, in the form of a solution made by -dissolving lib of boracic acid in three

pint 3of water and applying with a brush ; and 3rd, in the form of ointment made by melting 31b of tallow and one pint of salad oil and adding lib of boracic acid.

Chafe per TruckTo Wellington Old New Reducfrom Eato Rate tion s.. d. s. d. s. d. Opaki .. 35 2 33 6 1 8 Masterton . 33 10 32 2 1 8 Clarevillo ... .'. 31 6 29 10 1 8 Carterton;.. .. 30 10 29 2 1 8 Grey town North.. .. 29 6 27 10 1 8 Woodside ,. 28 6 26 10 1 8 Judd's Siding . 23 10 27 2 1 8 Firewood per Truck — Carterton 1 ... . 38 0 29 2 8 10 Matarawa... ... . 36 6 27 10 8 10 Dalefield ... .37 6 28 6 9 0 iBett's Siding' .22 0 18 0 4 0 Kaitdke ... . 21 0 17 0 4 0 Upper Hutt . 16 6 13 6 3 0 Muiigaroa 19 0 15 0 4 0 Silverstream . 14 6 12 0 2 G Hay ward's .13 0 11 0 2 0