GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 724, 25 January 1910, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

.;::The 'time has come• for. final• reminders regarding.the Dimnevirkejshbw; as entries :close::6n'.'Friday:-next; J ;at 9 J ',pjn.; They , should be ..forwarded', to" the* eecretaries, 'Messrs,','Stubbs and , "Webb, Dannevirke. . So.-,far- as indications are expected''frphiVa.vivide Radius; r tlie ilistncts! inblfiding'iWairaTapa, Palmerstoii /North;.. Peilding.viand. .' The: .prizes offered; aggregate a' handsome sum, 'and; .the; awards ;sor f :|the : cbinpeti- : ; tioiis;'which , 'are*fairly'certain to. bring outibig 'fields,-: are .-particularly liberal. ;Apart. from thp.quesfioii'of entries,- Danneyirke_; is /expecting a'. large '■. influx of :TOito t rs, and, from au'ednca-: itiye;'an I d.a biisiness-Vpoint of j4ow,-th'e op-: fj>ortunity.s.eeniSitc?iju|gest tnat -it -would ■be jwalli , . worth:., thbiwhile of "prominent stbo'lc; to .exhibit eome of their brat- ds the natural .centre.of;a'very large district-indeed, and-:'there;is.hot-wanting";eyidence that it/is ;pn the eve, of ;a. larger: development;:/ :

: ;'•: The..Minister.-.for' Industrie's'-and Com- ; -merce'-has received "advice' from the War Office, of•'.a : contract...for.- ;thb ' supply ■';■ of . .frozen meat, in bulk.at ~ Forbes ..at ; {tenders^ jfbr; close;. 1 -in ; : ;Lon<lbn-ibriV'April -18' n'ekt'i'-V-.''-Particulars-"obtainidi'frdm the; jliKctor, , Comiiinerce:and .Tourists Division of the De.|"partmentX'bf j Agriculture,: Public Trust Building,, .Wellington.':::... .-/ ■;;. ■/;'

.•"-. Tho i;Methven .cbrrespoßdent of the .Christchurch'i.'. r Press",Avrites:—Owing:,, 'to the continuance of : thp'severe-di'dught ,in; thei Methven/and .'sorrounding districts , farmers:ar.o;; : anxi_ous.toidispose, of';their; ; fat:lambsi'to:;relieve"• their, feed; consequently- -large' consignments ;are;'leaving Methven and otKer , stations.on the branch' lino/daily. .Four operating in the district at present, "anH ! 'although the -prices.'are-,considerably below.:.thoso srul-,ing-..twp, or.;threo:.-years,..ago,..''necessity 'knows^no/choice';'' wan't of feed .compels,!-farmers : ,to .accept..prices',.'that .they , ':would'.' if' circuinstances: were more .favourable. Stubble feed.will be of yery; little use; for fattening purposes this.. season;'as the plentifnlsupply'.of. under-, growth that has-been so' abundant of late years: is entirely absentjnow, owing to, ..the;very light rainfall and the scorching, heat- and nor'-west winds of the last few. weeks..'KiV.'- V i--'.'■■'■' ' ;,.:■;.:/: ; -'-'-...'. •■■ ■' ".'■,-'

of, 'the; hill rountry"-ofvPovertj-.:Bay,: it*may. be'.mentioned., thafca .pastoral/run' of ■ 1600 acres, about:'twenty-tnreeVmiles from Gisborne, is just .about to, change, hands at which, works ; put at; JEIO; per acre. The': proprietor went on to the station twelve years...ago, when -it -was ,: covered with heavy timber, and allthe capital he had, it is.;stated, was iGSOO;-.': There can bo no, ::oharge''i of, Sun'earned.nUncrement; •■ in;; this! case, however,: as' , the brealungin- of ;a station so'; far: back; : when' everything' had ; to '.be packed ; over,.bush itracks, . wonld have "daunted any but the stoutest hearts. Nevertheless,; such'. a. satisfactory price as: has .been, realised, should compensate; the sheep-owner and his better half for their '-twelve-:- years' sojourn in the wilderness'.—Gisborne, "Times.";;., ... •,■.: . ..-.'. ; Haymaking;.- i; is'. practically,- over at Nireaha.iv.Tho crop's have been, very good,'and. .with';very fewvexceptibiis :h aV e been' harvested in splendjdi'conditipn.., . . As 'in'; instance ; of', hpw. : .dry tho season has. been it may; bo mentioned that a number-of .creeks in the vicinity of Gore whifih. have never been previously known to:be dry-are: at. r present without water: A' resident": of :36 years at;.Croydon says the Waimumu stoeam has never before' been•'so low as it. is;at .present.: : . .. ■