GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1153, 14 June 1911, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The Waiata suppliers are rallying, and ther A is «vorv probability that tho creamery will re-open ill the spring, and will also.be augmented by a home separation scheme, which will take ill tbe whole of the district.--FeUding. "Star. Savs a writer in an exchange'Ex--perience is teaching, us thac sanic fat-producing substances are not in tho pastures, especially of older districts as there were some years ago, and tlio farmer mav cull out year after year while the prices improve as well, yet lie finds lio is doing very little better. It is obvious, then, that lo obtain .better results the lost properties should be made up."

"No rain; bad crops; a lot of disease." Thus Professor C. Coleridge Farr sums up Hie present prospects of the Argentine Republic, where lie- spent eight weeks en routo to England. Tho. outlook is not a. happy one, for the Argentine lias indulged, like other countries,, in a certain amount of mild speculation, and it is at such times as these that lollies como home to roost. Profossor_ 1 arr is very much impressed, though, with the natural wealth of the country, and says rJiat despite the outlook money lias been pouring into the Argentine from England and elsewhere, and the rate of interest on good freehold security is eight or nine per cent. What particularly struck Professor Farr of life in South America was the tremendous activity of tho gambling spirit, a spirit which is much encouraged by the existence of State lotteries, and which is not restricted to the native population.

A member of the Ashburton County Council stated that rabbits and noxious weeds were spreading in an alarming manner in many parts of the county. This he thought was a very serious matter, and lie was also of tlio opinion that the marked increase in the number' of rabbits in the county should be brought under the notice of the Government inspector, with n recommendation that the provisions of the Act should bo strictly enforced. A motion on thejines suggested lvas carricd*

At. the annual meeting of the Norinanby Horticultural Society the following otiieers wero elected•.-•l'atrons, Messrs.

I'. M'tiuire, Cf. V. I'carce, M.f'., :\. BStewart, .1. Livingston, and It. Dive, M.P.; president, Mr. E. .1. Shrimpton; vice-presidents, Messrs. J. Best. J. Forbes, T. Holwon, ,). T. Quin, T. Lloyd. 11. T. Lysaght, H. J. Linn, W. Kowe. J. Weir, and C. Davies: general commiitee, Messrs. A. Alexander, IV Andrews, A. Anensen, J. Arehibold, G. Ayre, \\. Baker, H. and J. Best, W. Briscoe, M. liroderick, F. S. Canning, U. C.'oekerton, K. T. Cowern, C. Dnvies, E. Evans. T. Free, It. Garden, W. Gaodland._ S. Henderson, F. Hunger, jun., H. Kemp, G. Livingston, I!. Lanibie, G. Kilvington, J. Marx, H. M'Koy, F. Meredith, C. Paine, AV. A. Parkinson, J. T. Quin, T. lfobson, W. IJowe, .1. Meuli, E. Shrimpton. R. Smith, It. White. J; Wilson,; executive committee. Messrs. Anensen, F.

Hunger, jun.. .1. Meuli. J. Miller, F. Andrews. C. Dnvies. T. Free. E. J. Massey, G. W. Mitchell, C. J. Preston, and president and vice-president ex officio; auditor, Mr. W. Kowe; secretary and treasurer. Mr. T. Lloyd.. "The few farmers who have gone in for feeding green corn say that their labour has been more than doubly rewarded, and aro convinced that artificial feeding in the summer months is as equally important as in winter, li y systematic feeding it is possible to increase the yield of tho average New Zealand cow over 50 per cent, on her present returns," says a contributor to the Feilding "Star." The Victorian Government having determined to establish the beet sugar industry in Victoria proposes .to purchase land on which to establish a liody ■ of farmers, and negotiations are now in progress to secure the whole of the Boisdale Estate, near MalTra. Arrangements have been completed for the purchase of between 700 and 800 acres of the estate at a price amounting to about .£16,000. The dairy inspecting staff of the Health Department visited 495 dairy premises and seven factories during April. The number of dairy cattle examined was 23,134, out of which 76 were condemned. The percentage, therefore, was .3.

Several exhibits for the Balclutha Show were taken south by the' Minister for Agriculture. They included roots, fmit, cereal exhibits, veterinary exhibits, dairy produce, noxious weeds, and pods. The-Minister is reported io have stated that this year the Department is extending such exhibits t'o country shows as far as possible. A large amount of wheat has been put" in on Cheviot during the last two weeks, tho weather conditions having been perfect for sowing. The ground is in nice order for working up, and the absence of heavy n-in has been appreciated. The weather ha?' been extremely mild, and feed crops are growing fast, the whole district having n very spring-like appearance.