GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Matters concerning the newly-formed Agricultural Association at Stratford appear to be moving steadily forward. The president and the secretary (Messrs. R. Dingle and E. Jackson) attended the Palmerston Show last week and received promises of support of tho Bret show, which is to be held during next show season. The date of the show has not been fixed. Some members advocate holding it in December, while others favour February. The Waikato Central A. and P. Association (Cambridge) has decided to hold its next show on March 9 and 10. Money is plentiful in Ilawke's Bay, according to the chairman of the Hawkc's Bay Farmers' Co-operative Association, on account of tho increase in tho province's principal lines of export. He hopes, that that will not load to an inflation of land values, and predicts that tho "undoubted prosperity of the forming industry should soon be reflected in the towns, where trade is still somewhat dull." The Waikato Central A. and P. Association (Cambridge)' is taking steps to arrange for the provision of additional buildings in the form of loose-boxes, homo industry and luncheon sheds. Tho Waipukurau correspondent of the "Dannevirke News" says that the necessary support bus been obtained to ensure the erection of a cheese factory at Waipukurau. The Hawera branch of tho Farmers' Union is brightening its proceedings by encouraging members to prepare for anil read at the meetings uapcrs on agricultural subjects. "Beekeeping" was dealt with at' (he last meeting, and tho next will probably concern dairy herds and cow testing. A Wairarapa paper states that there are a number of swaggers on the track now, and infers that farm work is therefore scarce. ■■ '