NOTES FROM THE NEW ZEALAND DAIRYMAN FOR NOVEMBER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2493, 25 December 1901, Page 8

NOTES FROM THE NEW ZEALAND DAIRYMAN FOR NOVEMBER.

There is a further advance in pork. The Stratford Bacon Company are now offering ♦id.

A number of the Parkvale (Wairarapa) milk suppliers have declined to take their milk to the factory on a Sunday. On November the Bth the milk supplied to the Dalefield dairy factory totalled 4400 gallons. This is a record delivery for the factory.

At the beginning of this month the supply of milk at the Mauriceville factory was 1200 gallons. There are 50 supplier?, as against 39 v Iast season.

Says the Feilding Star: — Two hundred aud seven pounds of butter in one week from a herd of 18 grade Jerseys in Feilding is not a bad record.

Of the three colonies which ship butter to the Mother Country, New Zealand was the only one last year whicli showed an increase as well as •» cteady growth in the past five years.

The Auckland district na* decidedly taken the lead this season in point nt new factories opened. The latest to start is the Manawaru co-operative, near Te Aroha. Eight thousand pounds of milk were put through the first day, and the quantity is expected to steadilj increase.

A dairy farmer at Dalefield ha« a cow which ha:, been in milk five months, and each day of this period the animal has yielded 601b of the lacteal fluid. Another dairyjuaji^ \.a§ two cons whivli liaye ius>t

come in, and have been giving daily £01b and 741b of milk respectively. At the last meeting of the directors of the Awahuri Dairy Company, it was decided to pay 9d per lb for butter-fat for the month of October. Mr R. S. Edwards (of Awahuri) received the appointment of second assistant at the factory. Owing to the increased number of suppliers the company will put up a record this season.

The Dairy Commissioner hat, located the staff of tdie dairying service for the season as follows: — Taranaki — Messrs M'Gowan, Shirley, Dumbleton, and Brash ; Wellington, Messrs J. Johnston and D. Cuddie ; Lyttelton, Mr A. A. Thornton; Bluff, Mr D. Dickie. Mr Singleton's services will be utilised chiefly among the cheese factories of the south.

The following are the scores of the export butter exhibits ai tbe Palmerston North show: — Mauriceville Dairy Company. 94; Maketawa, 93; Stratford, 92; OtakiManakau, 90i ; W. Poole (Eltham), 89£ ; Maketawa No. 2, 89i; Wellington Fresh Food and lee Company, 83£ ; Dannevirke Dairy Company No. 2, 88 ; Wellington Fresh Food and lee ' Company No. 2, 88. The maximum points obtainable were 100.

The Kaipara people aie row taking active ■>teps_ to start co-operative dairying in their district. As one speaker put it at a recent meeting, they wanted an industry to take the place of the timber industry, which it is recognised must have it 3 day. It is significant to note that many supporters of the co-operative movement when it wa3 first mooted some months ago were reported as having cooled ' off wing to the advent of home separators. From an interesting little history of the Maketawa factory by the local correspondent of the Taranaki Budget, we take the following:— ln the first season the company received 7^d per lb for its butter, of which it sold 97.9261b, bringing in a total of £8150 Is 2d. The price obtained foj butter for the season now opened is lOd psr lb, so that in six years /the price obtained for the output has increased 33 1-3 per cent., and the income-laid output have each increased more than 100 per cent.

It was settled (cays the local correspondent of the Budget) at the annual meeting of the Ngaire Co-operative Dairy Company, held on the 31st nit., that a loss of no less than £540 had occurred during the season through themilk not being kept thoroughly cooled by farmers during ihe warm nights, the factory consequently not making as much cheese as it should have done. As the manager remarked, this sum would have provided every supplier with a well of cold water and an aerator. The Taranaki writer, though correct in the main, is a long way out in his dates. He says : "It was settled at the annual meeting," etc. Let us say in regard to this statement that it was "settled" long before a cheese had been made at Ngaire that the neglect to cool aud air milk for cheese-making resulted in a 10 per cent, loss. If this fact is " pettled " now in the minds of farmers whose milk is converted into cheese, much good will result.