GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Mr. J. C. Parr, chairman of the Auckland Education. Boards said in his • • address' tp.tfakbou'rflfonTlifie occasion of his retiring from office that he was not'so sure that' some of the money the board was now spending in other ways would not be better employed in technical instruction for those who were to follow, wh,it. must .be. the primal industry of the Dominion. t ]t -was the duty of the incoming- board to specialise in .agriculture. Sylvandcr, : the merino ram which was awarded the grand championship at the recent Sydney sheep show'; is by Sylvan, who took the championship ill 1908, and was sold at the subsequent sheep fair for 800 guineas, and afterwards disposed'6f again, for'looo guineas- to a South African breeder. Some of the .New Zealand-bred Romney Harsh sheep entered in the Sydney. sheep show were landed in Sydney only Clio day before the show' and were sent to the pens wet. ' Everything was against them, says 'an Australian paper. New Zealand breeders have already decided to compete at the next Sydney, show. The .Waitara freezing works are closing down five weeks earlier this season than last. The reason given is that moro .butchers were available to do the work, not that there was less work to do, and it is stated that the export of beef lias been greater this year than ever previously/ ■ , ' It is. reported that the Clive butter factory has been sold to the Hcretaunga • Dairy Company, Ltd., and is to be transformed into a cheese factory.. • The next Pahiatua show will be' he'd on February 10, 1911, and the ram fair on the following day. February 9 and 10 are tho dates selected for the holding of the .horticultural show., Mr. J. A,_ Corney, manager of the Kaponga Dairy Factory, and formerly manager of the Jloa Factory (Inglewood), has been appointed manager of the Tarata (Taranaki) Factory. According 'to the statistics compiled by' Messrs.. Dalgety and .Co., Ltd., the sales of tallow - in-New- Zealand last month amounted to 151 tons.