GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 705, 3 January 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

'f > .. f The New Zealand Fanners' Show at | Eketahuna will to licld on Thursday, i March 3. ,r 'While on a Christmas Tisit to Wood- < ''-if villc;:'Mr.--John: the "Ex- • 'i r aminer"- that 'he and Mr T. H Walker, |^ ; factoi^ji&?Ha.T'; weEa,jare-.;doiiig,'very :well; and had great i . liopos^ci'.establishing:aslai^e.' and .success- , ;.'| fur bnsmess. •.■ Although'they, had 1 ; only i; jtcan product, and.afc prices equal to what gettiaTgj y-;. This !. ,[ soupd good iJffe the'yrecent talkWf i over supply of pigs i ' TheVjajm under p^ato -.crop^in.-» ; i E as follow —reatherston, 143 acre, Sotifh |W *-l-Wairaiapa, 9& acres, Masterton, 17D - if acres, Castlepomt, 12 acres, Eketahuna, | t 32 acres, Manncenlle, 7 acres r w ; .y i[i- eMi-. ; D. 'I). :Hyde,v.recantly;.cliief- poultry v :i , dij-expert: to ,tlierrlew 'Government, : >4who/made :ia. rather late .teginmng this i i|r>f>cason: m- estabhshing . a v fruit and 'poul- - ]i -try farm . at Paraparanmu,. has;, at last ' .■ ■'■r . his .work ; after • a vory exacting' ■ --the-<;re- ? ! i J ceived -very short notice of his rctire- ! '..']f.iiing r.as a conlmercial poultry', farmer.' >sf- .Jiroi'.jthevpurpose'he'took up. rough,, lmim-- j -■ . •(proved land at Parapannnini, and liad to ■:■ ",' j j same timo. as .lie.'was hatching, his young", y V;i' ' Vhimfeell^ : .- jnvhat was prachcally his first holiday; and :; ; ,iv;^:attended,;il;he ; ;rac63;:iat' l "WaLk3oae; v ; He ■.■ ' ihas a 'thousand, head of :young. stock com- * iiaiid' White Plymouth." Eocks,..in. addition • v 'pi., to a : '- : 'numlx;r-.'of''lndian Euiiner; ducks. > :'.' v:s!lr. Hyde' looked, considerably sunburnt, '■ 1 ; ''. C'V.ponod ,of .anxiety-is=pasti '• • •' '