GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 671, 23 November 1909, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

A will-informed Hawera farmer informed our travelling representative that,.;at the present, time, the - district : is exporting; 150 . tons of ; clieese : evory week. . Cheese wagons, drawn by six horses, ; aro-as plentiful on the Hawera roads ns the}wool wagons avo.in the Masterton and Hawke's Bay..counties. ■: - Oir: Saturday,Vtho Oturi Dairy, Factory; near Hawera,'.divided .81100' amongst its •suppliers. A' competitor named D. Morrison took tho first prizes in all,tho three judging competitions (for norses, cattle, and sheep) at tho waikato last ~week. .. . Messrs.''Slack' Bros., of Manawatu, wore prominent rprize-winners with Ayrshires at the Waflcato SEbw. • ' The-Stratford Dairy . Factory has paidout tho sum of ,£sl-10 15s. to' its suppliers (for October butter-fat. ■ : Mr. Ernest Short, New Zealand's champion Romney breeder, and Mr. W. J Perry, of Lincoln jfame, are still the. only breeders who aro known to be contemplating sending stock to .the great Argentine Show, which will bo hold from, June 3 'toV July 31..: will dispatch eleven 'sheep; and Mr.v Perry. seven.. Mr; Short "himself will also make tho trip, and \rill be.accompanied by one iof his shepherds. It is understood that the magnificent champion rqm. '■TRecord Breaker".will bo entered for exhibition .onlj^lvHe. wilHbe tl'"! splendid ' advertisement touching what New Zealand can breed. Commenting on the fact that at the Palmerston Show the Government veterinarian, engaged "passed out";: three'out-of five entries in the draught'/entire diss for hereditary unsoundness, the "Waikato Argu3" says"There can be littlo- doubt that, our stock wonld -bo . considerably improved if every stud horse waa corapulsorily-.v examined by .tho' Government veterinarians," and only,? sound animals allowed to-stand for stud purposes." •-i .' v . It: is . stated ..;by farmers ttiat contagious 'maminitis is fairly .prevalent ;in tho Masterton district, this season." ■ :In some parts of the Forty-iuilo Bush, dis-'trictsi-it is said-that thVrecont' westerly .winds; .and lack of. sunshine have-left.thoir .results inj,a dryness and hardness of tho.wool. - I The dairy" factories of Southland are. working, at full/pressure," and in some cases .the capacity .of the plant is' scarcely ,capablo of meeting the demands made upon it; (says ; the "l'nvercargill News"). Grass was never, perhaps, more plontiful. than it How is;.;which nas resulted in larger yields of:milk per.cow, but this only in a measure accounts for . the increased supply, graziers adding, to-.their herds', whenever suitable .animals'are-offering. The 'extent. to . which dairying has taken tho place of sheep raising and:.oat growing inSonthland, is surprising, ' especially when.it is> considered, that";the industry has been mainly." developed within tho past few years. -' ;■ . . , ' Something in- the nature of a record load; of; wool was taken to the Masto'rton railway station' last' week, by Mr. W. E. Corlett, carrier. .With a team of- six horses Mr. Corlett brought in no ■ fewer than 37. bales of wool, from Mr. Hugh : Morrison's station, beating his previous year's tdcprd'from tho same station'by two bales.

.'''Eecently'ai'farm'bf 45 acres; located at Shir-, ley, on ' tho "outskirts . of.'Christchurch, was. offorcd at public, auction, and sold'iin lots at prices ranging from XSO to i; 118 per.acre. -