DAIRYING INTELLIGENCE

New Zealand Mail, 5 February 1902, Page 52

DAIRYING INTELLIGENCE

i (By Telegraph.—Own CorresDo it ! . PALMERSTON N W ! , Dair y factories shipping their nJ?' i coa stal steamer to Wellinetn 0^9 ; being subjected to a further £ T I the Wellington Harbour^ ! the opening of the Glasgow Wharf^ I X lly b f Ullt f ° r the acc °mmoSnoi ss-rs;“i£i?£SsN charge of 2s Od a ton another sB in order to cover car tame from n' coastal steamer at the Q Jen's wfi to the Glasgow Wharf, the mg necessary because the coastal ! mer to suit its own convenience,^ ! loa(ls car 60 at the Queen’s Wharf i reason to cavil at the extra charge | When the 2s 6d rate was first brought I PI there certainly was a margin of pro. | fit for the Harbour Board, but within. | creased rates of pay and shorter hoS I enjoyed by wharf labourers, the I j°?'. finds it impossible to include the ! additional cost of cartage under the old transhipment rate. Dairy produce ship. ; pers have reason to complain, however that they should be asked to bear the expense of carting from one steamer to another because it suits the convenience of a steamer to discharge at a certain wharf. The National Dairy As. sociation desires to represent to dailymen interested, through the medium of the “New Zealand Times”—which takes a special interest in the dairy prodnee trade—the necessity, when forwardin’ their _ produce by coastal steamer, of marking on their consignment notes the words: “Goods to be landed at the Glasgow Wharf, for transhipment to Homo steamer.” This instruction having been given, and the boat finding it inconvenient for its own purposes to land the goods at the Glasgow Wharf, it then becomes a question as to whether tie carrying company is not responsible for the payment of the extra charge. It is a sad commentary on the business methods of some dairy farmers to note the blind way in which they undertake the factory manufacture of buttermaking. Conservative to the last, they ignore tlie free and excellent dairying service of the Government, and lha valuable assistance of the National Dairy Association. Recently a certain dairy company in a North Island district commenced operations, and, notwithstanding new cowsheds, cowyards, factory and appliances, the resulting butter was a poor third-grade article, not equal to a fair “milled” sample. The policy of the Dairy Commissioner is only to send instructors to those factories applying for assistance, apparently on the assumption that forced instruction u generally ignored. It is, therefore, gratifying to know (as a reflex of tM above incident) that a recently-eswi lished co-operative factory _ in Manawatu district —the Otaki— app' 1 . 1 to the Dairy Commissioner for an instructor, in order that their system o manufacture might be established o a sound basis. Mr Cuddie—yone of most successful butter-making inst tors in tlie colony—is at present at factory, instituting the method of m , facture which has made New Zea butter famous throughout the wor • The strong nori-west wind early this afternopn to a sout - wind, with heavy rain, which l ast ® t seven o’clock in the eveningbenefit will result to graziers and men. PALMERSTON N., A full meeting of the cxeou the National Dairy Association Zealand was held on Monday ev Stratford. The secretary Beattie),who returned to Welhng Palmerston to-day, reports tn a quantity of routine bus , inesS , f . r disposed of. The principal matwr cussed was the establishment or » h 9 ing Committee of the associa i disposal of the butter and puts of the association s me from was decided to invite del g, on jj, B factories to meet at Stra meet* last Thursday in February- of ing will be followed by

, TTowke’s Bay delegates first Thursday in in latter gathering will also March- Jjr, delegates from the Taraby m , the ie . nak* n *hat"eonferen ce before the Palsalts of , and thus secure comfe° n tlnn A scheme drawn up oy bined ach°"' sccre tary for the conthe president i on of the proposed ** ‘flmimttee will bo submitted to gelling Another matter distbethe''proposed winter show at \fter fully going into the Tis ultimately decided that matter- « con fer with the sub-com-tbo secrC n t f ary the Manawatu and West rftV and P. Association at an early £7 and submit to it the views of th MrR C Evath chief clerk of the Agriin,ral Department, passed through ® l won to-day, on his way to WelMr Evatt has been visiting to Northern offices and experimental Ififtinns of the department. He reports £ Lve of prosperity in the Waikato. The rainfall has been plentiful, with le result that pastures and crops are Jn vood heart in all parts of the Wai- {“£ Mr Evatt says dairying operations' are rapidly extending and there I he believes, a great future for the industry in that district. While in Waikato Mr Evatt met Signor Bragato, who has just been appointed wine ext |. O the Agricultural Department. oLnor Bragato had inspected the vine plantations-of the department on the poor lands of the Waikato, at Wairangi, and expressed himself as greatly imW essed with what ho saw there, and with the possibilities of an extension cf the plantations.