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Waikato Argus, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4322, 10 February 1910, Page 2

Rev. D. C. Bates wires:—Moderate to strong northerly winds; cloudy and hazy weather; expect warm and humid conditions; glass little movement. A meeting of the Hamilton East School Committee was held last evening, but nothing transpired calling for special comment, the business being merely of a routine character. The Hastings correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the Ministerialists of the district arc about to make a strong effort to induce Mr R. McNab to contest the Hawke’s Bay seat at the next elections. Owing to counter attractions last evening the meeting of the general committee in connection with the Waikato Musical and Elementary Competitions was postponed until Monday evening next in the Wesley Hall.

A Swedish match company has purchased seven acres of land at Barking, England, for a match factory. The new building, with plant, will cost £40,000, and the factory will employ 1000 hands. There are two things dear to the feminine mind —a new hat and a bargain, and an opportunity is now afforded to ladies to secure both at Mrs Williams, Hamilton, who is making a special display of hats and millinery at less than naif price. We wish to direct the attention of our farmers to the advertisement of Mr John Hall, seedsman, of Otahuhu. This old-established firm has built, up a well-earned reputation for the supply of good seed, and now has one of the largest business connections in grass and clover seeds in the North Island. Supplies of new season’s seeds are to hand, and orders can be promptly filled. Price lists are in the printers’ hands, and will be mailed in a few days. The firm has just received advice of the acceptance of its tender for the supply of seeds to the Matamata branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. This has been a “black” year in America as well as in the Old Country, a repetition of the previous show season. At all the leading fat stock shows of the Old Country the leading honours have been scooped by Aberdeen Angus cattle, and the grand championsiiip at the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago has been taken by a pure bred Angus steer owned by the Kansas Agricultural College, and got by Fyvie’s Forester out of Queen Etta Viola. The grand champion scaled 17501b, and was sold by Clay Robinson and Company at 75s per cwt of 1001b. The championship for car lots, however, was taken by the Shorthorns. These sold at GOs per 1001b. Mr S. A. Grant, of Auckland, one of the officers sent Home for military training by the New Zealand Government. writes to a friend in Auckland as follows:—“ During the recent manouvres I was one of General Graham’s staff officers, and saw the best part of the whole show. I am now attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers, and will remain with them for twelve months. Early next year I go to Hvthe for the musketry course, and after that, return to the regiment for company and battalion training. Messrs Barton and Robinson have completed the Hythe course, and Major “Jackie” Hughes has also gone through the musketry course. Since arrival in England we have found the weather pleasant but cold.”

Soon there will be very few laggards in regard to the adoption of pasteurisation of cream in factory butter making, that valuable principle where uniformity of quality is desired, but essential where keeping quality is imperative, as is the case with the butter of this country. By next season it is anticipated, there will be hardly a factory which will have failed to realise the value of the principle. To some dairy companies adoption of cream pasteurisation will make a gratifying difference to their account sales this season. The great Taieri and Peninsula Milk Supply Company, of Dunedin, which makes more butter under one roof than any similar concern in this country, is grading up to 95 and even over; and before the principle was employed it was not recognised as turning out a high pointing brand, principally due to the fact that it draws its cream supplies from such a great radius. This, however, is only one instance. London reports coming to hand tell of the great satisfaction of the Home trade with the quality of New Zealand butter of this season. It is an admitted fact that this advance in quality has been solely brought about by the new method of manufacture advocated and introduced by the Dairy Commissioner and his staff.

One of the most successful growers of potatoes in the country is Mr Hugh Burrell, the popular president of the Feilding A. and P. Association, During the course of his society’s recent show he found time to speak to a reporter of potatoes and of his recent experience of them. He declared at once that spraying was essential if the business was to be conducted on a permanently profitable basis, though disease-resistant seed was an important factor in securing a clean crop. Mr Burrell is pinning his faith at the present time on Findlay’s Million Maker. This he imported with three other Findlay potatoes, but these have been discarded as hopeless failures. One of them, Great Scott, is favoured by some people in the district, but it went out the first year with Mr Burrell. Up-to-dates were given up years ago, as they are particularly subject to blight in the Feilding district. Notwithstanding spraying, blight is pronounced this season in Gold Keef, an early sort but very delicate. Million Maker is a long kidney potato, of good flavour, and though a mid-season sort it keeps well on to the latest spring. Mr Burrell has 17 acres under crop to this variety, and the plants are very free of blight.