GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 905, 26 August 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

, A paragraph, published in yesterday's issue made ,it appear that: Messrs. Hod-' <der .and Tolley were, the Palmerston • North agents for Messrs.': Hurst'' ,and Sons', jseeas. . This .was .'.incorrect) as Messrs. Hurst and Sons, have no agencies in New Zealand other than A; H. Turnbull and, Co., of. Christchurch, who are Bole, representatives for;, the, Naturally; many- firms throughout New Zealand - stock,' Messrs. Hurst and Sons' seeds. ; /-Messrs. Barraud and Abraham, of Palmerston North, for instance,!have .done, so for years, and still, continue to .'do so,,' their importation of these seeds running into very largo quantities. '.

The' High Commissioner, reporting on the Paparoa's shipment of apples from Nelson, says:—"The engineer . informed mo that he was instructed in New Zea- . land to keep the temperature of the fruit chamber at from 33 to 35 degrees; and this, as far as possible he. had done, although in several instances the log .recorded that 38 degrees had been reach- >, . ed. .;"-.'. A good many of the apples when cut had an appearance as if they ■lad been slightly touched. with frost, - and 4he opinion was freely expressed by '.'■'■■ experts in the trade that they had been carried at too low a temperature. ... .In. - any future shipment of apples I would .strongly' recommend that the temperaIturo!'should be maintained at from 38 .-.'/ to 42 degrees." ■

It is a' novel idea to attempt to restrict ilic breeding of flies, which cause so much to horses and other live stock: during the summer und autumn. The llassachusetts State Entomologist, in jeply'to'nn inquirer, says, it has been estimated that 95 per cent, of our houseflies originate in the manure from stables, and that if the manure .should be' kept m underground receptacles, so tight that flies cannot enter to lay their eggs, or so dark thut they will not enter, the breeding of the insect*;will-be greatly ■'• reduced. It. may be, assumed ithat ■' if flies cannot breed . in: '.one place -tbey would breed in another; but tho idea is'to discourage their breeding near Ike house awl toe houiwteaaV