FEILDING NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 810, 6 May 1910, Page 8

FEILDING NOTES.

Mr. Jas. Grant, agricultural instructor for , the Wanganui Education Board, visited the Feilding' schools yesterday (writes' oilr correspondent). In an editorial note on the (Minister for Agriculture's objection to picnics to State farms,, the "Star" says:—"Wβ have never heard of any.visit to-these farms excepting by farmers and their wives, and if a trip .of that . sort is i what Mr. Mackenzie calls an objectionable picnic, then he must have little conception of the part the farmer's wife plays in the game, but apart from that, surely. Government institutions belong, , to 'the (people; and. every man or woman genuinely interested in :, the work carried out there has as much right as Mr. Mackenzie himself to go there." Dairy farmers in the Apiti , - district are enjoying a full share of the ' general prosperity of : the /season. The' summer in the hill country has been very much in favour of the dairy farmer, and large- supplies and: good: tests: have been the.'order of the' season. Eyenj.-at- the. present time,' when ■• the ■ milk 'supply, usually falls,away, the quantity obtained is much to the satisfaction of milkers. One man, who is running thirty cows on ninety-nine acres, is at nresent getting a 4.4 test from a liberal supply of milk. The price for butter-fat is naturaUy'Tiot'so high-in: Apiti- as-lower- down towards- the plains, owing to the cost of transit, but still it is found that dairying pays , well when the form and the cows are. properly looked after.