THE FARMERS’ COLUMN

Patea Mail, Volume XLVI, 29 August 1923, Page 3

THE FARMERS’ COLUMN

CARDIFF COMPANY ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Cardiff Go-operative Company was held recently, when Mr J. T. Belcher presided presided over a good attendance. The report recorded another successful season. The output was about 5 per cent, above that of last season, and was a record for the factory. All the cheese was sold on consignment, with the exception of 1401 cases still afloat or in store, which was sold at 9d per lb f.o.b. Butter was also consigned, but 44 boxes of whey and 81 boxes of creamery butter were sold. These sales had enabled an approximate estimate of the balance due to suppliers to be fixed at £4325, sufficient to distribute 2.71 d, in addition to the 1/8 already advanced. The cost of manufacture and placing f.o.b. was |rid per lb of butterfat.

Figures for the season showed that 9.544,3281 b of milk had been received, which on an average test of 4 yielded 382,4571 bof butterfat. The factory weight of cheese was 1,005,4591 b, ofi creamery butter 11,5781 b, and of whey butter 28,0731 b. The number of lbs of cheese to lib butterfat was 2.70, and 9.331 bof milk went to make lib of cheese. The butter over-run was .14081 b. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. Mr A. J. Barr was re-elected auditor for the ensuing year. NOTES Canadian dairy farmers no longer ask “Does it pay to test cows?” —at least, not the ones who are wide-awake (says the “New Zealand Dairyman”), for it has been proved that herd-testing in Canada has put millions of dollars into the pockets of the dairymen as a result of the improvement and efficiency in dairy beards as a direct result of the work. The average yield of milk per cow for all Canada has increased fully 50 per cent since the work was instituted in 1904.

i'or the twelve months ended 30th June last, the Cheltenham Dairy Company’s factory at Makino manufactured i;0II tons of butter. Just twelve months ago the management made the 2000-ton mark its objective, and thus has been 'able to go .beyond the estimate.

■The Area Dairy Company, a coasta. cheese factory, which adapted a consignment policy, has paid its suppliers 1/0, with- a possible further small payment to come. Midhurst Dairy Company has pare out lor butter and casein equivalent to I/10id.

The Nprmanby Dairy Company has estimated its payment for the whole of the cheese-manufacturing season as 1/9J per lb. This is said to be one of the highest payouts in the province. CATTLE TICK REGULATIONS PROSECUTION FOB BREACH At the Morrinsville Magistrate’s Court Inst week, R. B. Curtis was proceeded against by the Stock Department for taking 20 cattle from Morrinsville , a tick-infested area, to Smart’s Road, Taranaki, a clean arte, without obtaining a permit. Defendant admitted the offence, but said he was not aware of the regulations. The stock inspector said that, under the conditions, his Department did not desire to press for a very heavy penalty, but it should be generally known that permits for stock (cattle, horses and dogs) sent south of Te Kuiti must be obtained. A fine of £5 and costs was imposed. BUTTERFAT yield In reply to a correspondent on the subject of increasing the butterfat yield in cows, a writer in the “New Zealand Dairyman” states:—The only manner in which the butterfat yield of a cow can be increased is by feeding her to her full capacity, although this will not make any difference in the butterfat ratio. Provided the cow is getting a properly .balanced ration, no food will lower the test or increase it. The only thing in the world that will alter the quality and quantity of milk is common salt. There is no magic virtue in the salt itself, but it improves the general tone and health of the cow, and results in more milk and better milk being yielded. Feeding a cow with an unlimited quantity of green oats or tumiph without any hay or lucerne would, of course, not be anything like a balanced ration, and on such feed the quantity and the quality of the milk would both deteriorate—on the same principle that a child will starve to death if fed on cornflour exclusively, DAIRY PRODUCE Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London office, under date of the 23rd inst.: — “Butter.—Market quiet, but firm. We quote New Zealand salted 178/(178/-), Danish 180/- (178/-). Finest Australian salted and unsalted 170/(168/-), Australian good average quality 160/- (160/-). “ Cheese.—Market firm. New Zealand white 110/- (114/-), coloured 108/(112/-), Canadian c.i.f. 108/- (105/-).” (Last week’s quotations in parenthesis.)