GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

. Yesterday's rain caused a further interruption in. haymaking .operations in Ilawko's 13sy. This is tho second cessaiMSHjflf work.m tho.hayfields which rain 'has-necessitated itliis'"woeki--,A firio field of wheat and oats is to. be' seen on the Clandoboye settlement (says tho "Ashburton Guardian"). Tho field;; which' is owned by Messrs: Watkins, Road, aiid others, was sown, on October' 1, and isover 6 feet high. .Some of the grain yields in tho Rangitikei will.be .inferior-this- season to last Winds avo .said to bare, been tho cause of. the troubles. - ..Tho potato crops along tho Main Trunk aro said to be-very good this year. The yields aro big and the quality good. Taihapo growers sharo in tho fortunate results; their crops are hotter they have, been "for some years. . :. Tho "Rangitikei "Advocate" states that'there has been a dearth of farm labourers this harvest,'and large qu.. titlesof - grain havo boen delayed -in stookiiig, Threshing machine owners havo also found a difficulty in getting sufficient hands to work their plants. -The country , in. tho Manawatu islooking very well, and, compared with Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay. lands, is very fresh .and.green. 1 Mr. G- do Bayliss, supervisor of fields experiments, is expected to visit Manterton shortly concerning . tho experimental plots which aro being grown under the. auspices of tho A. anil P. Association. ■ The Woodvillo correspondent of tho "Hawke's Bay Herald" says that' it is stated that Mr. A. Harding intends cutting up the Siberia Estate into small dairy farms, which will accommodato about fifty dairy farmers. "Siberia" is near Ashburton.

Til spito of tho systematic provontivo measures taken to copo with the codlin moth pest, a fairly largo proportion of tho fruit in tho Ashburton county this season has been affccted.' This (says the "Giiardain") probably, means that the affected orchards will havo to bo uprooted in the end. HOW TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF .DISEASE. "It is proper to add hero that ev?ry disinfectant, to carry, out its work properly, must bo brought' directly in contact with tho disease germs it is'intended to destroy." Tho above statement is rjedited to Dr. Andrew Wilson, 'F.R.5.8., tlio eminent physician, and its value cannot be overestimated. .

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