GENERAL- FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 8

GENERAL- FARMING NEWS.

The Akaroa "Mail" soys there is no ' j doubt that' the best returns can be got from Banks Peninsula lands by dairying. It is astonishing, it. says, what progress has been njiale of late in the way of dairy factories and their management on the Peninsula. Wluit is wanted 'now, the "Mail" contends, is the establishment of ■a bacon factory. All the sheiis up the ilolyneaux Eiver are filled to the doors with grain for transit to Balclutha, while huge piles are stacked outside, and large quantities are still piled up in the iields where it was threshed. Mr. Tout, alone, soys -.the "Leader," has. 20113- sacks of oats ready for shipment, while fully 1000 tons of chaff are to come down. The steamer has three months' work in sight. At preseut. she is making three trips a, week, a one-day trip being made to fieggs's and back. . / The Wanganui Dairy Company is arranging for the erection of a creamery at Maxwell. 'Says the-Stratford "Post": "The statement is still going round that the Jigniont Box Company is about to remove its headquarters from Jiltliain to Uiiku. In conversation to-day with Mr. It. Dingle, a, director of* the company, wo learn that this is incorrect. Although nothing has been definitely decided upon,' .it is quite probable, however, that the cheeso crates ivilL .be turned out at tht mill which is to be erected at the eidins on .the site now being cleared/ but the buttev-box making will continue to be carried on at Elthaui." The well-known Wyndhara stallion owner, Mr. John M'Donald, purposes taking his splendid 5-j-ear-old Clydesdale eire, Dominion, to the Melbourne sales this mouth. Dominion (Prince Alexander —Kate II) last season had a first-class run in this district (says the Wymlham "'Farmer"), and horse-breeders generally will regret that the service. of so well bred and well proved a sire will be no longer at their disposal. The Dominion yearlings are already' making a good 'name in the horse market, and invariably command'high prices. The Ashbuvton Central-Dairy'Factory Company continues to receive encouraging support,from those in favour of the .establishment of,;.the industry in the 'county. Judging by the support'already ! given and promised, there .is every rea"- ; s6n- to expect that the , - dairying industry will be carried out on a very extensive scale in Mid-Canterbury during the next milking season. ' The following have been elected directors of the Kaiparoro Cooperative Dairy Company (Eketahuna):—Messrs. Snell, Hofnieistcr, Crookenden, Dick, H. K. Renall, t'dy, and Harvey. Mr. F. AVise was elected secretary, and Mr. T. Bedding auditor. •"It may bo news to Jou," remarked Mr. John Burns, the new agricultural instructor for ' South Canterbury, to a Timai'H "Post" reporter, "that a commission of .fifty practical farmers—practically the same Commission that visited Canada in 1909—is this year coming to Australia and New Zealand from the Home Land to inquiro into the agricuU tural conditions with a view to the possible settlement of Scotch ' farmers In Australasia. The party is to leave Liverpool on August' 19, for Australia, and it will bo about December before they reach New Zealand. These men are selected from the leading agriculturists at Home." Says the Oi'oua Bridge correspondent of tin- Palmorston "Standard";—" Mr. W. SeiCert, who has leased Mr. V. Smith's flaxinill, is turning out a large quantity of fibre daily, far more m his predecessor. There must be ;■ ■- thing in Uaxiniliing, as 1 nutico that tiiu (lax is cut in the Kairanga, it is carted to Karere, then railed to Oroua ■ Bridge, and attar going through the mill a. part of it is carted a mile or' two away In Mr. H. Simpson's property for bleaching purposes. There is a line lot of fibre drying on Mr. Simpson's land at. the present time." The Kohuratahi correspondent of the "Taranaki. Herald" says that in his district, which lies fifty miles inland from Stratford, the grass for this time of !he year is looking all that can be desired, and should this mild ,weather continue there should bo no trouble to winter stock. Milking has stopped for the season, which has been a record one for both factory and supplier. The output oi cheese for the past season has exceeded any previous year's by some SOO cheeses, which speaks well for the proprietors and management. The Auckland "Herald" correspondent states that many of the horses in the Morrinsvillc district seem to lie sufiering from an epidemic of influenza; indeed, judging from the amount of coughing ihat went on in the horse lines of the Second Regiment whilo in camp, it seems prevalent in the whole of the Waikato. Apart from this stock appear to bo doing well. Mr. A. 11. Russell lias !>een nominated as president of the llawkc's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral .Society, and Mr. T. j H. Lowry as vice-president. j A correspondent of the Auckland "Herald" states that there is n block of 23,000 acres of unoccupied land _on the i Ooromamlel Peninsula which is simply a propagating ground for blackberries and briar, acres and acres being so densely i-ovc'-ed with blackberries that no man could ride through them, and still this block is allowed to bo a cm™ to tlio neighbours around it, as I believe not a shilling has been spent for the past three seasons in attempting to check them. The neighbours get notices from th'! inspector, and they cut and strive to keep the weeds under, whilst wild pigs and birds spread the seed by millions over their lands from this block.