The annual report of the Woodlands Dairy Factory shows that the factory had beon supplied with HO.Ollgal of milk (averaging lojib per gallon) dur ing the season, and that 110,2411b of cheese had been manufactured therefrom. The profit on the year's transactions is to be devoted to the reduction of the overdraft, which Btands at £849.
A well-informed correspondent writes as follows in the North Otago Times concerning a very im portant matter —the state of the local grain market:—"The oatß held locally are not by any moans under local requirements; indeed, there must be 40,000 sacks of oats in the district, of which 30,000 will have to be shipped away somewhere." On one nf the large runs of the Mariborough province (100,000 acres in extent) SO men were em ployed for a period of f.hreo mnotliß, and they dis tributed during that period 410 bushels of oats and 2781b of phosphorus. The food consumed by the men was as follows :—Flour, 6 tous 3701b; biscuits, 1801b; sugar, 235'.11b; potatoes, 5 tons 4cwt; tea. IMilb; currants, 201b; oatmeal, 3001b; curry, 35 bottles ; salt, 32tilb ; shalots, 561b ; 488 sheep.
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IMBER 20, 1889.
