GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

i The .November, Wellington, wool sale .takes 5' lace to-day at the : Concert Hoom of the 'own Hall. at. 2 p.m. .■.."':.'■ Mr. J. D. Eitchie, Secretary for Agriculture, who arrived back 'in 'Wellington on Wednesday! from his holiday trip to the Old Country, had;, an interview!;, with the Minister yesterday!-; '■'■ .' '" .■■.,;.'■..'■'.■" •:'-.. .-■' .' • If the wool crop this, season should be .20 per cent; greater:.than-that of last year, as Some people expect,'and the advance in prices revealed at the Napier sale should be repeated at• all ■'■ safes of .the 'season,""Now Zealand will receive • J&OflO.uOO • more, for her wool than ■ she got last y«ar; Our return last year was about dCr;5Oo;ooo. :-'. ; . :\.,. ;■. ... '■ .•- . ■ '■.■■• .' . Thirteen' cows are entered for. the N«w Plymouth, butter-fat '■'■ contest—all .grade :!Jerseys; The :'cow9 will '.be -in: tb>- keeping of the Taranaki Association, for uino days, and tho actual test will ''take place over.'the eightviuilkings of:the last foiir.days. The prizes given are in'sums of jeiO,.\£s,-X2 10s., and JCI. In leference to .'reports .that- dirty railway stock: trucks were "supplied.. to ..some exhibitors atythe recent.:sh'qws,- the.'Wairarapa.PJ and A. Society/ has'reneiyed no; direct complaints, iut is,;invi,Hng.;those : <who.- may have complaints to' communicate particulars•,of;,same;:■;.- ''■"',-. , -A- sbmewhaV : unusual'claim -was• settled- in adjudgment'by Mr. T..Hutchison, S.M:,'- at Wainiate;' . G.. : , F. .Richardson sued. G. .Jones for-.£42 damages for overfeeding-off a crop of young'wheat. :.It\, seemed that in October, 1908, defendant 'W ; as permitted to depasture 1050-iheep in: plaintiff's field at Willowbridge, wherein • was , then growing■: a young crop of. wheat. The sheep were to remain from Tuesday to Friday; They • were taken away ;on Friday,' but as defendant did not sell, them he sent" them'- back <on Saturday, and kept them there till the Monday, without reference to the plaintiff. The consequence was that the crop, instead of .yielding. 63 .bushels, -to the acre, yielded only .461 bushels per acre." Upon this basis, the magistrate gave'judgment for the amount'claimed with costs. VA supplier to the Kapuni factory (Taranaki) is sending in 33201b. of milk daily from 96 cows—machine milked. \ ' ■'. .. ', . ■ ■'.The 'potato-digging season has opened in various parts'ofjthe.North Island. , . Dalgety '■ and Co., Ltd., save sold, on Account of Messrs.: Gray 8r05.,, the well-known 'Wairarapa Bomney breeders, 25 stud i-tooth-Rpmriey■ ewes' at, a. satisfactory ■■ figure. -The ewes, were , sold' to an • Adelaido client, and will :be shippedvfro'm .Wellington at.an, 1 date.' ■".'':'; 1 ; .'■.'';■'.!■■'■>■.;' ' /'•.'■'.■ ' .' ■ '*'.'■>■ A deputntion, m-bicii is to wait on the Native Minister : this" / '.week,.:vriU. urge the purchase ijnd settlement of the.lV Whitißlock. ' . i'-The wool-offered\&t 'tlie..N.apier "salo was. distributed .among the different'brokers as follows:—Dalgety and Co., Limited, 697*; Messrs. Do Pelichot, M'Leod and Co., 419 j New. Zealknd .Loan -and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, '200; and Lanaujie,. Limited, 563; Hawke's Bay Farmers'. Go-dperativo ,Asso-. ciation, Ximited, 604; 'Williams and' Kettle; ■Limited, 528; total;.3olU bales;.- ■'•' •;■ . ..'