GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1104, 18 April 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

..The value of. living animals imported by England for food tluring January and February was .£'555,191, as compared with . 4670,700 [ n the corresponding two months last year. . There were 23,5101 cattle, against 35,369, and 11,274 * slieep, none of tho latter having been sent last. year. The value of dead meat was ,£7,333,926, as against '<£6,298,111. The quantity of mutton imported was 1,072,620 cwt., against 731,838. cwt., and of beef 1,029,996 cwt., against 952,172 cwt. Bacon and hams 'showed a slight increase. The value of butter was '.£4,(>18,703, against £4,248,521; and cheese i:774,969, against £805,336. Of grain and flour the imports were valued. at ,£9,714,810, against J312,503,405 last year. During the months of January and February 181 cattle were exported by England as compared with 42G in the first two months last year, the difference being entirely' duo to the falling off in those sent .to the'United'States, and it is probable that. these were chiefly from the Channel Islands. The. value is .£10,824, against i 11,475 last year, so that the vgluo is aboutlcqual with apparently 245 fewer animals. The Argentine took 90, against 12, and Australia 42, against 2. Of sheep 571 were exported, against 665 last year, the value having been j>U,O7l. 'against .£6984. The Argentine received 374 and the United States 105. Of pigs 117 wero exported, against 51 last year, the value having been against . ,£sllO. . Potatoes riddled with the worm havo been'dug up in gardens in Feilding this week (states ah 'exchange).' A' month ago some of the potatoes, when lifted, showed scarcely any sign of the worm. A large duantity of tubers had to be destroyed at Htinterville. Home consider that the pe-st is spreading quickly. Auckland exports for tho fortnight ending on Saturday included the following:— Butter, 2156 cwt., Ml,050; cheese, 16S cwt., JE39I; phormium, 6G tons, .£1087; frozen beef, 2762 cwt., .£3426: frozen lamb, 3440 cwt., jCC-120; frozen mutton, 19 cwt., ,£2G; frozen veat, nil; oats, 32 bushels, .£5 hides, .1201, .£1428; skins, 6504, ,£578;. tallow, 123 tons. ,£4101; timber, 657,671 ft., ,£3070; wool, 333,5501b., X1],852; and potatoes, 112 cwt., ,£44. A Ilawke's Bay paper says'that sheef iro mysteriously disappearing from settlors' iiocks. One settler is said to allege that ho is 200 sheep short, and another to claim.to have lost 300 since lasl shearing time. N(Tcarcasses have beet found.