GENERAL FARMING NEWS.
■ -Air. Cuddie, Director-of the Dairy Troduce Department,: intends to inspect the New Plymouth arid Auckland grading ports within the riext. few days.. -.".Feilding show entries close to-day. . :/ The . Eketahuna Horticultural Show (with riding events), under the auspiccs of. tho Farmers'. Union, will' be held on March.3. ' ; The .South .Canterbury Threshing Mill Owners'; Union : has • decided that, prices for the season shall be as follow :—For threshing orit of stook, 3Jd.: per bushel for wheat'_and barley and: 2}dt for oats; for threshing out of stack, 3d. per bushel for .wheat - and/ barley, and 2Jd.• per bushel for. oats,; with the; exception of solid straw .wheat, for .which the price ;for :stack .threshing should be 3Jd. per bushel. .', , '. Out-of a selected, number .of- American farmers interviewed, 95-per cent, agreed that there is no better forage crop for pigs /than lucerne. This answer would doubtless apply to New Zealand. Twenty tons,of richj flesh-forming forage per annum should, produce a. lot of prime porkers and baconers.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 715, 14 January 1910, Page 8
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165GENERAL FARMING NEWS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 715, 14 January 1910, Page 8
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