GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The secretary of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, has received intimation from tho Hon.. Thos. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, that he is making inquiries into tho matter of allowing the State: Farm exhibit 'to be shown at the next. Taranaki winter show, New Plymouth, in. June.—"News." . A South Island paper states that it was noticeable at a Wallacetown sale last week that freezing operators were chary of purchasing lambs at anything like the rates that were , being ;obtained- from butchers, who paid at the rate of about id. per lb. delivered at the works for select lots. . . . The "Southland Times" says that last week potato growers in'the-Te Tua dis-■triot'-rcfused offers elf. ■£!'-. per ton o.t, for their crops. The Weber factory is only running twice, a week, ;'ani this month is the last of its season, states an exchange. In tho rich river flat land of the Jlolyr.eux farmers who have fields of turnips for eating-oiT purposes are going to reap a splendid return (says the "Free Press"). A Riverside farmer sold some 41 acres of turnips at i£'J 10s. an- acre, and an Inchcluth.i farmer expects to receive ifiOO for his 60 acres of tubers. Theisame farmer, hasionly .98.acres ,of Jand,.;but he keeps cows and,,estimates his revenue for the year from the cows and turnips at fully ',£IOOO, of which more than ..three-quarters will be profit'. > Mr. Henry Stevens, a prominent. Hol-stein-Friosian breeder of Lacona, New York, is dead.. > "We are informed," says a southern contemporary; "that since the recent rain there has boon a marked decrease in the ravages of the potato grub in the North Otago district. Potatoes are now coming to hand bearing little evidence of the grub. Tt may be that the fly has run its ruinous* courso,,.*UKl goue the way of all the...w'orld,-:pr. ~that,,.tKe. ,r,ain has killed off most of • the - 'nics,~b"ut:"whatever the cause, the potatoes do not carry, with' them the evidences of the ravage? of the grub or the deposit of eggs near the eyes of the tubers."