JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15037, 4 August 1914, Page 3

JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

.7*' A: well-known Poverty Bay bheepi•t farmer7speakjng to a pressman yoster>X"- day, *doc!an.*d .that* he btlieved tho dist v _ *. trict' had, practically come to tho end H3- -of its , exporting bu*-ine.*-.<- in sioro L " sheet- .(telegraphs our Gisborno corre-s- --- pondent). The more nrofi**ablo fattenjg - _j_g bueihess'had been so de-elo-vd of iK Wccnt-years, and iho flocks so de*- _*■*- , pleted,"thafc he failed to sco how tho £ export; trade could continue. lnci- :', dentally "ho mentioned that ho had sold \i ores, for.* forward delivery in February i- next at'a-price 2s ahead of any nrioo r f* ho had. previously heard of.

.- .. A meeting of tho Hawarden Agriculf XW»\»na t ßßstoral Association's General •7- ,*X?P a V Wlc o vas held on Friday.. Mr ir <*^*;-7 ires (P r o3ideu't) was in the chair. .; -A. statement of receipts and expendi2f° fo s, : J h V oar » P re Pared °y tho sec- ■*.*- fEJUffy {Mr B. Jordan), snowed a credit '.--"" -££ nc *' c ' f £ i<». Mr J. Little, of ,-7- *J*»mcay- Park, Woodgrove. promised ,- uj« Association four cups, valued at live r Emneaa each, for prizes in the draught I - r *™*> Mt-ep, grain and roots, nnd homo ff Wwtoce sectioiu, of tho Show. With rcftTepce to tho proposed tax on motort N £"" t * s resolved t« support tho taxp mg ot tyres in preference to cars, that l. oeing considered tho more tatisfactorv l* *' SSi»l f _? satl >- Motions of coudofB-,-*. «v» with the relatives-of the late Mr tv rki r ' Mr T * • Armstrong, and Mrs fr- vihlo were nasvwj.