SKIMMINGS

New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 55

SKIMMINGS

The Levin Dairy Company lias a weekly turnover of five and a‘half tons of butter. For last- month £IBOO were paid to suppliers. * i * * * The proposed city factory of the Fresh Food and Ice Company promises to be one of the most complete establishments south of the line. * * u * • Mr Rose, long connected with the Dairy Union in all stages of the business, and latterly manager of the Wellington factory, has left the Union. It is hoped to better himself. * * * -» # By the conversion of the Apiti cheese factory to a butter factory, a great expansion of the dairy industry in that district is expected. The milk from t 34 additional cows is expected, and che capital of the company has been raised to £GOOO.

At the recent great trial of dairy cattle at Buffalo some remarkable results were shown. The Guernseys were by far the most profitable cows, yet the variation between the best and. worst Guernsey cow was remarkable, the best cow showed a profit for the six months cf 59 dollars 40 cents, the worst showing a profit of onlv 29 dollars ?? c ® nts - L ‘ the Dutch Belted breed tte best gave a profit of 38 dollars .02 cents, and the worst 11 dollars 49 cents. As the Buffalo test extended over six months, a, good idea is given of the posci mities in a good cow. In the above instances the contrasts are startling, and afford an illustration of the superiority of herds of the highest test wws and herds of the lowest tests. It s just the difference between poverty *iia wealth. J * » * a

enlmJitf lU +r ca i n statlst endeavours to bv m!i U tl i°, llo^ lness of his subject n n° f fanuhar illustrations. His Jtyb is dlustraied by the following exS r ,$? dail ? in g statistic! dedo over t: +T T - ler6 Was Coi) siderablo to ,f!‘ c J crea s e Of our standing 8n if 100,000 men. If every man in and w'orkeTat iff “ T* faSt niilber > e eU at J t ten hours a day, the nne-third r< of f,° aldri ’ t n,dk mol 'e than milked h, tr U COWS that> aro being tirli' *'* 10 s P“ k °‘ UitmaTl ~c o" “ ""It milkfvl fv» • f did, and if thev Canal, be!riimin° tbe Chicago Drainage empty thev pnl'n W ’n l • entirely abou/ two weeks.” * fc bankful in

Coll ''»erV' 1 P ondon lately recommitteo li as *L l t \° I f’openha^en panish butter h/ t}io P rice of b 8 it downto ™i 4s [ d por cwt > bringnto on] y about 5s 6d per cwt

in excess of the price of Australian, it has not altered the price of Australian butter to any appreciable extent. If by regular feeding the Australian cows could be made productive, and butter exported to England all the year round, there is no doubt that there would be less difference between the prices of Australian and Danish butter in England. The cessation,, of the arrival of Australian butter for half the year requires a fresh introduction of the commodity, and English people are conservative in their ideas, and want a reason for giving up Danish butter to start afresh on the Australian when the season comes round.”

All interview with a German labourer is published by the “Ballarat Courier,” which bears out the statments recently made that farmers are making use of black labour to a very large and increasing extent. The subject of the inter-view-stated that- lie had been to the four important wheat centres of Hopetoun, Jfeulah, Jeparit and Warrackiiabeal, and nowhere in the vicinity of any of them cpukl he find work in the harvest field. Indians, who worked from dawn to dark, whose fare was of the most frugal kind, and who were satisfied with the wage of Is or Is 6d, had displaced the white man. “I have worked ten hours a day for 5s a day,” said the German, “and that is cheap enough. Now I cannot get anything to do.” He went on to say that it would not be long before nearly all farm work was' done by Indians, and ho had beard that arrangements had been made by some farmers for a regular supply of coloured labour. Its great attraction to employers, apart from its cheapness, was that it could be ‘sweated’ so easily, and fifteen and sixteen hours a day was the usual term of an Indian’s work. Then ho would sleep anywhere—the cowshed or stable was usually his bedroom, and unlike the Caucasian, lie did not grumble when lie was shown there.”