GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 647, 26 October 1909, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The Dairy Union paid 'out .£9781 to milk suppliers, factory workers, and tradesmen of Palnierston North during the two' months of £ugust and September.' ■ ■ . ] Ono of the. commerce, tourists, :-in?.rom&rking ■to.a Christchurch pressman on the.'fine;quality of New Zealand land, also remarked on' the fate prices. Instead ..of the cheap\-land ; /.6ne' ;jrould expect to find in n nof L'imr.irv, Jhci'9 was not much difference in the prices at llomo pid in New, Zealand, said he. .. ' > ;|There is atTpresent'a fairly strong'demand! in.-Hawkes Bay for- Wairarapa-brpd Bomneye.' At.the. rocent Hawke's Bay. Shovr ; Messrsi.''.ri J). ■ Cruickshank and Co., in conjunction' with Messrs., Do. Pelichet, M'Lcod and Co., .effected ' the salo of ;a very fine lino of 170 BoMevff'jriims! fro::', the property °f Mr. Holmes-.-. , Yi r arrcn;' jVhangamoaniu ' ; i .At.'i«e6nt'-hors6'.' fairs. in:-Hawera;-. ; ,ti10 Sydne.v market..buyers, says the'vstar;" :,wbrp {tgain in evidence,- and were bidders-'for ;the best class of draught horses on : owning day.. If the . demand for good ho'rseflegU., continues, it will bo a big: inducement'/or-horse-owners, ta..breed .from the best stock.' i jAn Ashbhrton farmer recently secured: a 1; line 6f-several hundred' well-woolled hoggets': at 9s. each. The hoggets', have been .shorn, arid*' their; floeces are .eacli ■ worth >Bs.,'so;; Hint ,tho (farmer ; has actually:purchased hls/'sHjeep -.at ;l»X'peri ncad;' Many of the hoggets, .if put into tho ; : mirket at th'o present timoin their shorn state, would realise oyfer Bs. per head as fat.:,' .-Shearing (says our •'Wanganui, correspondent)has begun in the upper Waitotara! districts, ;and good cups are reported.-';;. A'yi/,' :>■ /.'Shares in : the.'. HaweA'^inttr''?sfiiw; ■pany are being rapidly taken up,'and a 'show is certain to, .be established.—Press AssociatioU,