AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.
The New Zealand Dairyman says: — "The six hands who put up the pat 3at the T. and I\ factory in Dunedin get through 1400 pats an hour, which includes taking the butter away to the coolroom. One of the hands a,ttende.to the wheel and filling, another ' puts off ' while the other four are kept wrapping. ' On ordinary days seven to seven thousand pals are put up, and in some cases as many as nine thousand are got through." The Southland Times has the best authority for stating that the profit made by the Southland Frozen. Meat and Export Company for. the half-year ending 30th June exceeded £5000. A New Zealand firm is supplying butter boxes for the export trade ja the Argentine Republic. "The grass grub is causing considerable de» si ruction in several paddocks about Carterton. A goods train ran into a mob of sheep bflk longing to Mr C. Young, of Stratfgrd, m^ few d&ye ago, and killed 53.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2369, 27 July 1899, Page 14
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