GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 876, 23 July 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The Levin Co-operative Dairy Company decided at its annual ineetiug to procure a pasteurising plant. Forty-one heavy horses were shipped from .Wellington to Melbourne by the Manuka on Thursday. ■ They 'are mostly, if not all, to . bo. auctioned at Melbourne horse sale;). The Levin Co-operativo Dairy Uompan" owns ?/farm of fifty acres. The ranu was bought for the purpose of allo'Ving the company to make provision for drainage. It cost £50 per acre, but the f present value (said the chairman at the annual meeting of the company) is at least £70 per acre. The disposal of- the farm, continued the" chairman, would bo a matter for future consideration, but the question of drainage would have to • bo always borne in mmd. The farm was a valuable asset to the company. At a meeting of the members of the \Vairoa County Agricultural and Pastoral Society, held at i'rasertown, 12 members were appointed to act oil the general committee of tlie united sociecy. The meeting was somewhat hosiiio to tie arrangements already, made regarding the amalgamation, and refused to confirm t'he .actions of the delegates to whom they had formerly giveu full powers; but the , election ot the I'rasertown half,of the ■ committee shows that they are willing to acknowledge the amalgamation. A stormy day was the cause of a very small muster; and so the hostility displayed by no means represents the feeling of the society, especially of its countrv members.—Exchange. Eecently tho secretary of tho Marlborough A. and P. Association wrote to the Nelson A. and P. Association expressing regret that tho Nelson Association had taken November £i and 23 as siiow dates. . The writer said that for yeare his association had taken tbe ■AVednnsday nearest November 20, and the Nelson show invariably followed a week later. Last year the show was held earlier, but that was purely on account nf the Jubilee, and to help the celebrations. A return by the Nelson Association to the old dates would bo appreciated and save a clashing that would prejudicially affect both shows. It was iinanimously resolved that tho show dates -be made, in the circumstances, November 29 and 30. Tho AVhararangi block is fast coming into grass (says a Ilaehiti correspondent) as the settlers arc getting the , bush down. All this block is Native laud, leased by the Native Land Board. The Morikan block is also hcing brought into grass, and a good number of stock now on it—a difference from three year ago, when it was all bush. Grass is said .to bo good and plentiful in the Main Trunk country. Cattle and sheep are reported to bo doing well, but hoggets not so well. There has been a heavy mortality, among young sheep this season, at AVairoa, Hawko's Bay, owing, no doubt, to the flush of grass and the damp season; and several of tho settlors are heavy losers. Those who have lost fowost lire those who wore more heavily stocked. —Exchange. In future general committee meetings •of the Feilding A. and 1 , . Society are to be held on the stcoud Tuesday in every month. Owinp; to the mildness of tho season, and tho consequent supply of milk, it has been decided (says tho "Danuovirko . Advocate") to continue running tho Dau--1 iicvil'ke factory throughout the winter.