GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1028, 18 January 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Entries for tho Dannovirfce Show are reportecUto be coming.to.hand in a gratifying manner, some of them from a considerable distance. From present indications the eveut bids fair -to bo a. great success. For tho information of intending exhibitors of cheese and butter, it may bo mentioned that-tbeODirector of Daily- Produce has kindly arranged that an. officer of .his division shall act as judge of the classes in- question.

The supply of milk at the Okato factory is a rapid diminishing quantity (says the "Taranaki Herald's" correspondent). Tho daily output 6f butter is now about 40". bozos,'. "The season!as'!far as quantity is concerned, has been a record one, the. highest daily output beiug 45 boxes against 39 last' year. The\averagc grade for the. present.season, so far, is 92. The butterfat tests range between 3.4 and 4.0.

Messrs. G.'and A. Hunt, of "Wakefield; Nelson, consigned .to Napier .by the Pa-' teena, via Wellington, on Saturday morning 150 Komney rams, and ,80 wero shipJje'd to Taranaki in the early part of-the. spring. Another lot of 50 are to be sent to Wanganui, and 40 to Now Plymouth at tho end of the present month. 1 •

I The output of the Tekiri factory has not •reached the same maximum as last year, but'the article turned out is of-its usual good standard, says the Hawera "Star." ;

A Gazette notice states that the Whakatane County Council lias declared broom, Batkurst burr,. and gorsa to be noxious weeds, and gorse has been declared a noxious weed by the Eaglan Town 80.ard..,