GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 697, 23 December 1909, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

:j, M , r ;.;A:3.8-. Wood, agricultural chemist, states that ono of tho heaviest crops' of wheat he "has district was-that of :Mr..m^uicWppaki.. The stalks, were-fully :m».>the 'heads, were v propor' the oat and the crops .between . Masterton and- tho Miki '• Miki were looking .romarkably, well, and were not seriouslT affected with-any diseases. Smut had certainly mado.its appearanco Here and there, but it ;.wa3. not the kind that was likely to do any,'serious damage. , '.. ':',... •.'..'.■*

-Tho impression still prevails that the farmer's themselves ore eupplying the figires on whieli the official crop estimates areimado up.'-This misunderstanding was given' expression at ; a : farmers meeting ;at Christch'urch last week',' and the Mimster : for. Agriculture thereupon through-: the columns of The Dominion, nub! hshod a, correction. Tho error, ■ however, has { been giren further, publicity in a Manawatu paper this..week., , Tho truth is (according to the 1 Minister's statement) that the figures arSsupplio'diby.. fout:,Gdvgfiittient'-otßcbrs,: two : iif' each island.. . . .-. -.. . '■;■:■■ ..* . ~

, Yesterday:our .Pahiatua.correspondent gayean indication/of ,the,effect of the present warm; !Treather,qn thevcrops'in his district, nnd stated that the influence;was,, on.'.tbe'whole, beneficial Rather a. different:state, of things seems to.bo'- ; beginning,:on,,the. v :We S t,Coast,, however. .Our Palmerstonrcorrespondent writes as '2 ***>< weath or prevailing, mi\t supplies -at .the various factories. arc ramirii;' :dotfn;with*a^un,;the 'drop being aivery'Sous one' whioh will materially interfere with , the output; Eoads throughout the "oun try-'' districts,-.are' breaking up h badly, and mako' travelling-.uncomfortable. ■ , Early-sown ; grai™. crops aro_ ripening/rapidly, and some are be.'ingcut., t Late, crops are coming intoear sooner thandesirable owing to the hot we»ther " "'■£