GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

■ Speaking of the Moumahaki State Farm, 'tha- Minister for Agriculturo' (Hon. T. Mackenzie) 1 t01d... a Hawera reWlS** a great many experiments wei;o .being-tried oil the farm.with various pi a 311 s under many conditions of cultivates, and varieties*of. fertilisers.- - There 'was a nno crop of Japanese, millet, whioh should be of value to the district "as ;sJio.wing what can bo crown." The lucerne .experiments' he considered the most, im--portant," and if a- success 1 * is- established Should bo of. great value to the Tarahaki district. The stock -was looking well, ex.cept.that the' season was tolling 'on somo of. 1 the. sheep. , ■ • ' The North Taranaki Dairy Company's returns for. the.month'of January show (says the.."News") that JE1652 4s. sd.'has paid to suppliers for milk,-as against >£1010-4s. Ba. for-January,-1010, an'iinCrease of »CG 11 19s. 3d. Milk increased from G63.G33)b. to. 071,2421b., an 'increase ,of, 307,G091b. The butter made was' 47,4411b.,! an incrcaso of over, seven tons against the corresponding period of the previous year. ' Thero are now 57 sup-* pliers taking milk to the factory.- .'•> ■ '■! The Wellington Meat Export Company slaughtered 300 odd lambs from'tho-Fcild-mg Show for shipment to London, where ■ each lamb - will be judged 'as a carcass. Mr.-yR, YY., JliXpn, :,foron\an of the co'm-p&ny's-.Ngahauranga works, who has hud twenty, years* experience in Canterbury, states that the lambs from the Feilding Show aro tho, finest lot he has ever'seen in. 'New .Zealand.—Feilding ."Star." '."•Nbk.only are; tho hotels'and boardinghouses in-Masterton booked right up for thp show this week, but Carterton hotels are reported to.vbe: filled already to' overflowing.,. . . At the present time there aro between 12,000 and 14,000 sheep-at tho Waingawa Freezing .Works,, or, on the . road faccording to,.the Wairarapa "Ago"). The stiff at the',works is. at its wits' end to knowhow, to cope with tho.-work, and already the ..necessity, for enlarging tho works-is being discussed. .