FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 230, 22 September 1908, Page 4

FARM AND DAIRY.

We were somewhat in error in oar reference yesterday to tin- grading of this season's butter at .Moturoa. We said that none of the factories had vol reached the iirsl grade; what shoiiM have been printed was that not one .. i tho factories had escaped being grade I second. As a matter of fact, iniioh of the butter has secured iirsl marks. A peculiar incident was related to lis by a gentleman now in Taranaki w'm has jusi boon on a visit to Taihape. \ foal'was secured by a settler who puisessed a drv mare that hail been barren for years. ' Jle hand-fed the foal for a time, and then discovered that the youngster had taken to suckling the mare, and, what was more, and what was the strangest part of ail, the mare was giving the young animal milk!. 1. is the most extraordinary case (which is thoroughly authentic) of its kind w/ have board of.

Reviewing the state of the biiltc.market, the Trade Keview says:- Oversea buvors and their agents are now ill New Zealand in considerable number,, and are active, visiting producers and endeavoring to arrange for either purchase or consignment of ihe season's output. It is hold bv some that, there is reason to fear another spell'of dry weather during tho season, and this theory helps to intensify the desire f.o secure supplies. Some factories have been visited by as many as seventeen to twenty buyers. The great luiestiun of tin.' hour with the factory directors is whether to sell or ship on consignment. SSalos of total output have been eliectcd at from ltd to W/A f.0.b.an excellent price for producers; and if the ■weather conditions continue good the year's dairy trade promises to be a record. A good many, however, have so far decided to ship on consignment, and in s oine oasis consignments have been secured under advance at lid pellb "without recourse." There are complaints that in some cases business is being .sought after on term, thai no agency iirm of go'od standing and repute would adopt, and which, if persevered in and encouraged, are likely to have a very detrimental cil'cet on the trade'