GENERAL- FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 814, 11 May 1910, Page 8

GENERAL- FARMING NEWS.

• It is stated ' that' in-;the -London March Carterton'/ topped the market" at' Is. 2d. per Ibl' With reference ■ to nasal bot in sbeep, the Wiiiroa "Guardian" states that; Mr. Q. C. Ormond is of {opinion-that'unless stringent measures are ; taken -the .disease will increase .next' .year. " He noticed. a few slight cases last autumn. ;the"; first appearing about the middle of February and the last towards the end of April, jvfljhej; Woodbtfrjvcorrqspondent. ■ ,of the Timaru "Post" reports "that faro work ■in tho district is well ahead, and the winter oat crops have ma'de most satisfactory growth. On the other "hand, many .of tlie pastured .are very bare, anil thero Will probably" be 'a'general 'scarcity of. feed. '.The number of . acres 6et apart for clovcr seed i« greater' than usual. , Messrs. Bright Brothers,, of. Otaki, arc going iiiv for milking.-in a large.i way,: "writes our correspondent. AThey -are, running some SO,or 90 dairy cows, and building two up-to-date sheds on the most approved lines. One shed will be near the railway station and tho other on tho old racecourse. - \ , Passing through the Wairoa Gorge a ,day, or tw.o ago (says the Kelson "Mail") , a. prominent'visitdr' from' the''North!'ls-' land who occasionally takes a run over to Nelson, remarked that land values in that district had depreciated fully 10 per ccnt .owinii l.r tlio spread of the blackberry pest. Tho Department of Agiiculitnro ;has • lately instituted several prose'cutions in, various parts of the province, and: these should have a good effect in inducing property-holders to take steps to eradicate the pest. It cannot be said that the Department has been, harsh in tho administration of the Noxious Weeds Act,, and no complain can be mado at the extra turn of the screw which has been. given' recently. A-fall' of 10 per cent, in land' values due -to -blackberries gives 'owners of property food for. reflection. The annual meeting of the., Feilding A. and P. Association will be held in tho Oddfellows' Hall on Friday, May 27,. at 8 p.m. In addition to the usual business, the advisability., of including' flock rams in the 6chfedule ..for next year will be discussed. ... An - important announcement recently made in connection with cattle-breeding in Rhodesia is that the Liebig Meat Extract Company, on the advice of their experts, have bought 400,000 acres of ranching land in the and have acquired the option of buying up to 2,000,000 acres. I - With live i hogs : selling in . Western America at £2 per ewt., it is not probablo that. America will do very much business .'with Europe in pork for the time , being, but swino: production can . bei easily ..and rapidly extended in .the cornbelt states, so that it is certain that in the not distant' future American pork will be of fariTeachirig value to western feeders. '