GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1079, 18 March 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

i. .The Taranaki winter show is to bo o held on Jiuio.7, 8, 9,. and 10. '!■ record consignment of oats, wheat, and chaff, of over 100 tons, left Kopua- ™ ranga one day this week by rail to ~ various consignees. e 1873 Germany had 25,000.000 2 sneep. She has only 7,000,000 -now. , r acG . s ' aIK ' a c 9 rl 'ospqnding declmo in other food animals, the'people . there aro flockiiig 'to tho towns, and lcaviag tho country. 7 The membership of", tho' Taranaki l ' I L S™ , 'l f; i'ral Society has been increased . by -42, the result of a canvass. . Tire Dominion was written to recently ' for particulars about lucerne growing. [ Mrrespondent of "Hoard's Dairyman" , says that wliilo acres' of - alfalfa aro ' raised in his section of tho country, no seed is raised. lio wishes to know what cutting is saved for seed, and how it is threshed. Tho paper answers:—"lt is quito customary to uso tho second and third cuttings of alfalfa for seed, although the first crop will develop seed also. In certain sections the third crop yields more seed per acre than cither of tho other two. The sccond crop/ however, gives good seed but tho hay is not as good for livestock as tho third cutting. For this reason in somo localities tho second crop 'is cut for seed and tho third crop for" hay. Alfalfa, seed is threshed by tho use'of a common threshing machino with seed attachment, although better results aro obtained by using a clovcr hulier." Tho Kaiparoro cheese factory is advancmg 9d. per lb. for butter-fat for i™i Uar £, supply ' Tho Payment totals . £oJU. Iho number of cases of cheeso being shipped for London this week is 70, .bringing tho total for tho season up to 1760, says tho "Wairarapa Daily limes." ..

Captain Young, a well-known veterinarian of the Agricultural Department, is to ho asked by.the Tarauaki Agricultural Society to deliver, a series-of addresses during tho coming winter. . Professor C. ,C., James, of Canada read an address on "Tho - Indifferent Farmer."-.before tho International Association of Farmers' Institute Workers, in : Washington.. .-Professor James thus sums up his experience "Wo all know tho indifferent farmer; ho is here on this American continent by the tens of thousands. Wo who are workers in this agricultural field come in. contact with him. Ho is to bo mot'.with nearly everywhere. He is tho burden of our existence; ho is largely-the cxcuso for our office. He-has been hero since work first began, and one can hardly hope that he will ever becomo entirely extinct." J In connection with the plusKintr of fruit trees' with.sulphur to kill disease, i n it- awkins ' inut inspector, New boutk Wales Department of Agriculture, reports that 'Mr. Joseph Co'ckburn, of loronto, had some poach, blood plum and apricot trees affected with San Ja*o scale, black aphis, brown scale, and fin the Beach trees) peach leaf-curl. With a half-inch bit he bored a hole in the trunks of some of the tress 8 or 10 inches deep, in a direction downwards, and filled the hole with sulniiur made into paste, ramming it tightlvT. This was done about 15 months a R o. This season the treated trees are perfectly free of anv disease, cxcept a few peach "leaves affected with curl. There is no sign of San Jose scale, black aphis, or brown scale. They are brighter m colour, have made better growth, and carry at least 30' per cent, more fruit of bettor .quality than tho others.