GENERAL, FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 879, 27 July 1910, Page 8

GENERAL, FARMING NEWS.

. The efforts made by officers of the Agricultural Department to cleanse local orchards of.the various forms of .insect pest by which they have been decimated are likely, to have, a,distinctly beneficial, effect in'Masterton;- ' The demand for young ', blight-resisting varieties of fruit trees is-likely to.be much keener this, 'year.than formerly, says our Masterton correspondent. ,■

'. ""Despite', the " very unseasonable .weather, the milk supply at Waitara Road is very materially on the increase already," says the Waitara correspondent of the "Taranaki News," "early calving being the order of the day. It is expected that' the factory will resume daily running some weeks • earlier than at any other period-of its career. A now boiler, has been installed at the creaipery,; and the directors ■ have taken .the : very wisei precaution of having one large enough .to cope .with, i pasteurising, which is bound to come." , The "Dannevirke News" states that it has been informed of the' sale of Mr. U. Benton's property of 461 acres, in the Ngapaeruru district, the purchaser being Mr. 1. C. Breakwell, lately of Matauiau; and also of the sale on account of Mr. M.. Matthews of his property' at Okoroire, Waikato, comprising 610 acres, the buyer being Mr. Thomas Hounslow, •of Masterton. Mr, Matthews is wellknown in. the district, having . been for some years farming in Otope.

- There-are-complaints-in .Southland that the. draught f horses^.seen, at'-this' season's ploughing '"matches aYe' I ™^as good as those which used to take tho field in days gone by, and it is said that exportation to Australia is the cause.

-A light fall of snow occurred in Masterton at an early hour yesterday morning; but, by sunrise it had thawed. The low-lying hills to the west of the town were covered in a, mantle of. white, and the effect-produced by the sun 1 of the early morn upon tho glittering crystal peaks was especially grand.—Masterton correspondent. "- - • ■■■

At .the annual meeting of tho Flaxmillers' Association,-which.is to be held in P.alraerston North to-morrow, Mr. F. Simmons, of Napier', -will explain a new process for dealing with New Zealand flax which is' intended to do away .with the present method of stripping,. scutching,- washing, and paddocking the fibre. .Under, the new.,process, .'which will, -be, the subject of the" address, fibre will be ready for baling within from four to six hours from the time the raw material,is delivered at 'he;-mill. .The address will, no . doubt, be attentively listened: to by all millers, as the-new process is believed to .be so important that.it will 'revolutionise the industry — "Manawatu Standard.''