GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1013, 31 December 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

sThe 'followingv reference; : to colonial Vprodu^o'was"made by'- the chairman :or V' uircctors.'at the annual meeting of •f;:', s Dalgety. and Co:'; in'.London '.last '-month: • ' —"With regard to prices, though, it ; can hardly be espccteii that value's will bo maintained at fully their ~ present high levels, there is,\on; the otller hand, no- - thing -to load .one to anticipate any. v'f as will, serioiisly affect pro-, ducers'.". . '. •' \. v '• • . A correspondent of tho "Taranaki Herald" stitesVthat .the butter,returns :of > certain dairy company havo been i'such ; that : ,the directors. havo decided to.r educe the advance ifor nest- month. 'A; veracious resident: of New Ply- : mouth states that - grass is so prolific 'in somo parts of South'. Taranaki"that '.."it.'almost pushes over the.cattle! Some- . thing like, the complaint 1 of another ihaiij whocomplainod because there was so much grass on his place that he had in: finding : his .cows at.'milking time! —"Daily News." ; In the . tlireo 'seasons of itsoperations 3458 stallions' were Submitted for official .'.""certificates in Victoria; ; Some 2551 were granted certificates, leaving 907 ..rejects; -f' 18.10 per cent: .being-for unsoundness, and 10.03 per.cent, for beiig below the stana- . '. srd for approval..