GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

It is the intention of the Horowhemia Agricultural and Pastoral -Association to hold a ram fair on-the day'following the annual show. The show is to lib held at Levin oh' February i; The' sale should prove aV successful one, there, being a good demand for rams in tho district. An advertisement appears in this issue in regard to the ram fair. . '. !His Excellency the Governor will be present at the Jlastcrton A. and P. Association's Show on. February 11, and 15. 'An innovation at the Masterton A., and P. Association's" ShoV • on>the •newgrounds', at'.' month, .will bo a. pigeon-flying competition in connection with, tho local Homing' Pigeon Club. . "I have "lost over ,8100 -in my few years', experience" (wrote . an Auckland shearer). through the shearers not shearing what I considered dry sheep'. I have been left on the board by myself twice this .last'season. I also lost two sheds through the-same, thing... Out of these two sheds I could have cleared ,£4O. I for oho like a medium in all'things, but I must say I struck some chaps who wero too hot at voting wet sheep this year." Root crops in tlio northern portion of the AVairarnpa arc suffering' through 'want of water. ■ .'Turnip fly is said to be very troublesome in Southland. Some growers havo had to i'esow patches of crops. •"The rape crops in the Masterton district have gone.off considerably during the present spell of hot weather, anil lambs are being hurried to the freezing .works, says the "Age." Present-day settlers.in ..Tarsnaki, except perhaps those in the backblocks. can hardly realise the.hardships anil disabilities under which the early settlers laboured (says the Tar.inaki "News"). There was little money, and there v;ere no metalled roads or railways, or any of those conveniences which follow in the train of-civilisation. Tho women had to work as hard as the men, and many o settler owed a good deal of his present prosperity to the solid t work put in by his wife. Mr. Chong instanced an example of this on Saturday. When in business at Inglowood, an old German woman came into bis store carrying on her back a bag of fungus, which sfe had carried in this fashion from beyond Tarilci. She received Ms. for this, and as she said there was no food at home she immediately invested the money in a fiftv of flour, some sugar and some tea, which she threw on her back and then set out on her return journey,