GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1083, 23 March 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The Egraont (Haivera). A. and P. Association's General Copimittee discussed the proposal' of . the Taranaki executive of the Farmers' Unita that herd book should bo compiled,; lind decided to ask the. executive for. further information. The speakers, generally, doubted the practicability of the idea. An inspector has been appointed to inspect all the pigs put through the bacon factories in Taranaki. His headquarters will be at Stratford. ' ' "Test the cows and grow lucerne," was the sum of advice given'to-'a Slataura gathering oi' dairymen by. llr. J. Uunlop, of the bcotch Commission. About 120 hands are employed at the Waingawa meat works, according to tho "Age." A vegetable shortage is predicted by a Dunedin produce dealer, who says that most of tue gardens are bhghteu. Cabbages and cauliflowers, lie states, will bo very dear. Jlr. Kickard has resigned his position as manager of the Dairy Union Creamery at Awapuni (near l'almerstoii jNorth) alter over, thirteen, .years' service. ... , Some of the crops that have been sown in the Masterton district for purposes of greCn feed are looking remaruably well, and should prove an excellent st'and-by in case of severe weather, says the ".Daily Times." According to the Hawera "Star" a pair of freak apples was on view_at the Kormanby show. Their skin was coloured in green streaks, although they grew on a gomiine apple tree, and were surrounded by rosy-nhecked apples. A suggestion was made that birds or-bees had fertilised them from an outside source. The occurrence is new to. Jlr.. Horton, from whoso nursery they came, and is not without interest' from ' ah evolutionist point of view. A Southern exchange says that the potato crops which are being dug in North Otago continue to show traces of the grub. Only a proportion of tho potatoes is aifected, but tue damage is sufficient to make a material dilterenco in the price realised for consignments. It' is supposed that the larvae of the ordinary moth is responsible for tho'trouble. ■ At the annual meeting of the South Wairarapa Poultry Association, Mr. W. C. Buchanan, 11.i\, was elected patron, and Mr. It. J. Chapman president. Jlr, William 'l'ucker was re-elected secretary, and' Mr.' E.l'"Eagle, jun., treasurer. . Jlr., H. S. Jtoss was appointed auditor. It. was decided, ta hold an art union in conjunction. with'.this 'year's show.