GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 727, 28 January 1910, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

. .''The} .telephone Vis.,.in'constant use ; ty farmers' on; sojno parts of "Banks . Peninsula-, (saysf the' Akaroa "Mail"). ; When r Mr.''.'33li /was .; holiday/. making} at little Akaloa and : . Chorlton,};lie was' informed ;th'aP;th'e / private: /system; ..which ; exists. ..thero}is. regardM'.'.as;;one of tho... in- ; .disjpeiisable of : modern; life: Short .poles tiro used, and:each contribu:tor ' is/; contieoteS- with "the.: whole { system' and with t!io Little:'A.kaloa post and tole:gniplr?,office.' use tho telegrapli office for tho dlspatch of tclegrams ?dnt lover the./ telephone wire costs; only, J.'l'. a year: -I'or. ninepence connection can.be; made direct to. tbo'Christchurch exchange,, and/by.. that: means >ny: contii-.butor-J to. the city system can be com- ; mumcatcd There ''.'are. - thirteen: farmers; in.'thfe .iiittle 'Akaloa and' Chorl-. ton/systemj and' all}of,them, make a great deal'of : use of it. • •' ..A fine:.exhibit of 'Australian'.fleeces col} lected by ,"The Pastoralists';Review''-.will be: dispatched/:to Buenos Avres by tho steamer. Everton. Grange; These 'are.: in-' tended for/ the- big centenary exhibition to .be held .in} Buenos'.Ayres -this year, ■from Juna '-to/ October;- celebrating the -emancipatiokj.fWm}Spain:.(llay ; 25,-1810). .-B'everali 'merino .fleeces/ --Victoria.} New South'': Waies. -and 'Tasmania, and some Lincoln, and iEomney . 1 fleeces . from Victoria. " -.The* ; .Fedei'al-Houldei'-Sliire ■line. has consented-to take these freight trahas wool' aiid' stock'trade, •//• ; }', '/ ' a...Canadian/ expert more :famCTs}each ::^ ;pays -,to water .;horses,,in;'the:-'field during cter;courage .if ;,they, have ;aittert-' to }quriech f ::their'< thirst. once, at' least., during ■ tho long hot half : days. .'Horses -are-slaughtered'-every year in our harvestrflelds; by. boiiig . pushed beyond -tho limits of/endurance,, are worked into -• s^-'! i ffier,;re^no«feed;pipperlyv a tJniihts,-• • mbro worn : down during'-,the ; few /weeks; of -harvest -than' they. aro.:by .doing tho work required of thera ; the Teraaindeiv of/the .year. The not meant by Nature to work long -hours ; without /water.;. ;:.Had - bo been his; ;stQmachwould have 'j resembled' a of ; :'dEinfcing:• atr half-day • periods to /snit/tho convenience; of; in an; Drinking ' three, times ;a : day.; may be .sufficient on cool -days and ,in ordinary circumstahees, , u !- I } ll :liot_weather,' and at heavy work, uanling.. a. hinder, : for oxample, watering, three, times a day is not sufficient. :."/ . ; Paiaka, .the well-known ilax and dairv property of -347 , acres freehold and' 160 acres-. land on. tha-llanawatu/!.witli' flax -cutable'-- this:' bD sold-, at'/huction by Dalijetv s ' ? allne - rstoii Nortli on Saturday, 2Gth-February.' The terms .. may be-' arranged.—;Advt.'//• <:• ... y V It is}'dOTlared;..that}C'alifbrniah' thistle is growing/so thick on rich areas of the' : J.aieri Plains as to make tho land practically worthless. ;A'/\southern : farmer declares : . that 'the . application of;salt— only, slight dressing—is a sure means of destroying, this i)est. .. -' ,/The Mataiir'a : correspondent '/-of-' the } .Southland: Times" says that rabbit ex- . a "d agents , are' bestirring 1 them-: selves making arrangements/for the 'eom,mg seasop', ~which' promises', to 'bo: a record;one,'.as rabbits, never wero-so. high m .price; at the 'beginning of .'the- season. ■ ■ Ihe .reason of this is that a new use - has .been-found.for the.rabbit skin. fur.-has 'been taken 6ff the pelt; the pelt is chopped up, and after, being boiled is mixed with indiarubb'er, to-;mako motor-' -. C 'Y. tyres,/and :for,.other purposes ;for' .which hardened rubber is. required.