GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 967, 7 November 1910, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

::.Instruction; ; ih wool-classing:.is 'to.:be : commenced.'..in, Wellington ;to-night. The class-will be "conducted--by Mr. W. SI La Trobe, of the 'Wellington. Technical School! ' - "' " .

The Te'.'Wharau ; correspondent of the Masterton "Age" "writes: —"The results of the shearers' award are being already felt in this district. A number of shearers refused to work in a certain shed at the award wage of 19s. 6d. per 100. The owner refused to pay tho £1 demanded, and is employing a fresh gang •of ' shearers." ;. As recently as the last week of August the parched l condition''of' the grazing grounds of,the Western States of America was not substantially improved. There had,been rain in some districts; but, as pointed out by the "Twentieth Century Farmer," in' the absence of grass and at the season of the. year, ordinary rains could not be expected to do much towards helping immediate needs. The universal complaint is nothing for the cattle to eat", and in many districts great scarcity of water.' The drought has affected all the States from;the Mississippi westward to the Rocky Mountains. Halffat cattle "have been compulsorily sold very extensively, and this'means that the supplies of fat beasts lati>r in the season must be short. It is apprehended, thereifire, that there will be no relief from the dear meat trouble of American consumers for some time to come. FREE TO. ALL DAIRYMEN. .FARMERS AND STOCKOWNEES. The ■Wellington- edition of STKES'S Journal for Dairymen, "Farmers, and Stockowners has now' issued from the press, and contains the most comprehensive information necessary to successful dairy-farming ever distributed. Specially useful will be found the extensive tables for recording the daily 'milk-testing records for the year. The diseases common to cows and their treatment are explained in language that no farmer can misunderstand. Breeding tables, seed-sowing tables, herd register, account books, in fact, everything a tanner should know are now offered to you free. If I havo overlooked your name in- the Wellington distribution, send at once a post-card to tho publisher, and you will receive one by return mail.—A. E. .SYKES, Chemist, Proprietor SYKES'S DRENCH, New Plymouth.—* The imports of diamonds into the United States in 1906 were valued at £7,560,288, and in 1907 at £5,649,143; while in 1908, after tho crisis, they were reduced to £2,353,77,8. But in 1909 tho imports, recovered to £7,376,446, and'the trado ia now reported to bo boom- . ing.