GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 874, 21 July 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Mr. M. C. Dahl, dairy produce malinger of Messrs. Weddell and - Co., arrived in Wellington.from Australia yesterday. He is to'leave for Australia on about July 211 and hopes to be back in New Zealand about the third week in August.' .

Sweeney,,of,.Pahiatua, sent to the-llahawatii A; and ' P. -/Association meeting on Tuesday, tko. names of seven ; new ' members'. Altogether .91.' new members were .elected.—"Manawntu Times.'.' : About Dalefield iWairarapa) the earlysown bats are'looking remarkably' well, says a contributor' to an exchange, those sown in May being now well forward and fit for feeding down, and.are a great help to the stock during the harder winter months. This is particularly so with the breeding cows;, a few .acres of oats, with a few mangolds'or swedes thrown out occasionally, brings them through, the -winter, well and turns-them to greater profit in the.spring. The late sown-oats are not looking so well.' The recent sharp frosts on. the tender leaves, and the.continuous wet, have turned them somewhat yellow. ' .

At the conclusion of the meeting of shareholders of the Mangaramararoa Cheeso Factory, says the "Pahiatua Herald," the cheese with which the company took third prize at the Palmerston Winter Show was sampled. The cheese was a decidedly fine-flavoured one, and the manager, Mr. Aitchison, was congratulated by the shareholders on his success in obtaining a prize among so many competitors.

Stacks in the Carterton district are disappearing fast, the substantial price offered, and the experience of a few years ago, when chaff made a sndden drop in the spring, making Iho farmers disinclined to hold much longer.—"Carterton News."

There, is an .impression gaining ground that the'-Agriculturai Department intends to mako the pasteurisation of skim rnilk compulsory in a season or two's time.