A. AND P. NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3886, 4 September 1928, Page 20

A. AND P. NEWS.

The Canterbury Agricultural. .. . and Pastoral Association’s annual metropolitan show will be held at Christchurch on Thursday, November 8, and Friday, November 9, next, during Carnival Week. General entries close with the secretary, Mr M. E. Lyons, on Saturday, October 20. ‘ During the fortnight in which the , — Christchurch Winter Show’ was OpeirV about 75,000 people attended. It is understood that Edendale and Wyndham Dairy Factories opened on the 1.-t of the month for the season. . Mr J. B. Merrett, general manager of the Australian and New Zealand Egg Export Federation/ who is on a visit to Sydney, stated that if it -were not for export the ecg market would collapse in Australia. He said that he had already arranged to ship more than 10.000.000 eggs during the next three months. The first batch of 2.000,000 eggs would leave Queensland and -Victoria by the Hobson’s Bay this week. At a meeting of the Hobart Development League Mr A. W. Fisher, representative of a mainland syndicate, outlined a plan for a new industry for the southern part of Tasmania which, he claimed, would employ about 5000 hands. The industry would be for the manufacture of a new type of harvester and seed drill, as well as many other agricultural implements. The products would be sent all over Australia, and to the Argentine, Canada, and New Zealand. Mr Fisher stated that what had attracted the syndicate was the deep-water port of Hobart, the cheap land, and the hydro-electric power. It- is not at present known when the sugar of milk works at Edendale will reopen. LTsual employees have been told to seek other employment (says an exchange). It seems that preference has been given for a foreign article' in the manufacture of the infant food,"Karilite,” and this cuts out the New Zealand article. There is in store at. Edendale sugar of milk to the amount of 130 'tons, the product, having been ousted by the foreign article. What Lord Jellicoe said about the penalty on those Britishers who consume Danish in preference ,to NewZealand butter might be applied.;to the case. A good many potato growers Otago have intimated their intention of

growing potatoes in the coining season for Government seed certification. Full information concerning the conditions may be obtained from the secretary of the Farmers’ Union. It is expected that a considerable number of ’* bobby ” calves will be slaughtered in North Otago this year for export purposes. An old dealer in stock, in discussing the matter with the representative of the Otago Daily Times, expressed the view that if calves are slaughtered tor export in li wholesale manner it will only be a question of a year or two when beef will be as costly in New Zealand as it is in the Old Country. Already as high as £3 5s per 1001 b was being paid for fat steers. - ’ A canvass is being made in North Otago for shares in the Wheat Marketing Association. Although some farmers are a little shy. it is expected that a large number of shares will be taken up in the district. At the annual meeting of the Tuapeka AgrFicultural Society Mr .C. Young presisided. The balance sheet, showing a credit balance of £l2 6s 4d, was adopted. The total assets were £lBB 9s lid. An additional £2O had been given last year as prize money. At the annual show the horse section had showed a marked increase in entries. The date of the annual {show was fixed for Wednesday, December 26, and judges for the various sections were nominated. . Mr T, Weatherall was elected president for the coming year, and Messrs R. C. Hall and D. M'Neilly vice-presidents. The committee was re-elected. The annual meeting of the Waitahuns Agricultural Society was held on Tues day night. Mr D. Murdock (president) was in the chair. The secretary submitted the annual report and balance sheet. The receipts amounted to £396 6s 5d and the expenditure th £343 9s 7d, leaving a credit balance of £52 16s lOd. The report statedthat the annual show was up to the usual standard, with increased entries in draught Jioi se and sheep sections. The society’s dip was well patronised during . the year, 17,494 sheep being put through ■for the season. Some uneasiness was expressed at the decreasing credit balance, which was owing to the expenditure of £3O on repairs to the society’s buildings. Mr A. J. Liman was elected president and Messrs R. M'Caw and A. Bateman vicepresidents for the ensuing year. The date of the annual show was fixed for December 27. ; At a meeting held at Momona a herd-testing group came into being. From the enthusiasm shown it seems likely that the group will increase in strength and usefulness before a year has passed. Eight directors were elected as follows:—Messrs W. Bryant (chairman), W. Blackie, P. Bathgate. James Dow, . jun., J. G. Wyllie. J. J. Walker, A. Spencer, and T. D. Heenan. Mr Bryant was appointed the group’s delegate to the Southland Herd Testing Association, with which body the new organisation is affiliated. The question of moisture in cheese was discussed briefly at the annual meeting of suppliers at Riverdale, as the outcomp of a communication received from Mr P. O. Veale, dairy scientist, giving the . analysis of seven samples of cheese (states the Hawera Star). These varied from 35.1 per cent, to 38.3 per cent., and averaged nearly 37 per cent., and th e interesting fact about them was that they were all graded finest. This showed, said the chairman, that it was not moisture that affected the cheese, but bad milk. They could get a better yield and still grade finest. A huge graph showing, a comparison of marketing in England of Danish, New Zealand,, and Canadian dairy produce occupied almost the whole of the proscenium of the Hamilton Theatre Royal, where the annual meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company was held last week (states the Waikato Times). The graph was painted in colours and showed simply and clearly the prices obtained from month to month for the produce of the three countries mentioned, as well as the state of the supply throughout the whole year. The most noticeable features of the picture were the higher prices obtained for Danish butter during the short supply of New Zealand produce, the remarkably steady flow of the Danish product to the Home market, and the very irregular supply from New Zealand. With the ultimate aim of establishing an agricultural college in Pukekohe (says the Waikato Times), the Pukekohe 7. Technical High School’s Board of Managers is actively engaged in endeavouring to form the nucleus of a farm school. All records for dairy production in the Auckland province bid fair to go by the board this season, for the output coh- : tinues at a much higher lever than the re-cord-breaking basis of this time last year (reports the Auckland Star). It is particularly satisfactory to note’that cheese is now aiding butter in building up the big total, this denoting the complete recovery of the dairy herds from the dry spell last summer and autumn. The number of boxes of butter and crates of cheese received into the grading stores of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company represent an increase of 21.43 per cent, in the receipts for the last fortnight, compared witlj the same period of 1927. Stocks on hand are only a very little heavier than they were a year ago. In the course of his address at Temuka the Timaru Herald) Mr Mulholland, chairman of the Wheat Pool Association, said that although canvassing had been in progress only for a fortnight, ..j and only four districts had been visited, no fewer than 22,000 . acres had been signed up. They had met with only one straight-out “ no,” and that farmer was in favour of a compulsory pool. ' • A magnificent crop of Webb’s Masterpiece swedes is to be seen off the main road between Mataura and Wyndham (states the Southland Times). This crop J was grown by Mr Thos. Glover, of Tuturau, ahd secured second prize in the field ’ turnip competition. According to the (Government expert’s, opinion, the crop , should weight about’6o ;tpns to. the acre. , 'One may judge J the feeding value when ; . ‘ ’L is stated thatbne break Of two and >. acres held 40 edws fdr seven weeks.