GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1154, 15 June 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The Beaconsfield creamery, it is reported, will continue to open two (lays a week during the winter. The BaHaneo Dairy Company is paying out for May butter-fat at the rate of lid. per lb. The pay-sheet for the month will amount to about ,£2200, reports an exchange. The s.s.' Kapiti on Monday was at the Waitara freezing works' wharf, loading 952 quarters of frozen beef for transhipment to the Morayshire, which leaves Wellington for tho West of England ports. This is the firs-t time (the "Mail" says) that cargo has been taken direct from the works and placed in a coastal boat. The grass is growing well -in the Beaconsfield district. Farmers do not teem to ba commencing their winter ploughing as early as usual this season (says the Waiau correspondent of the "C'hristchurch Pre?s"), the protracted fine weather being the cause, as the grass land is at present rather too hard to plough. There have been sufficient showers, however, t.o keep grass and green props growing, and there appears lo be a sufficiency of feed to keep stock well through' the winter. The Eltbam correspondent of the "Taranaki Herald" writes"Several farms aro changing' hands. On the Mangawhero Road, Sir. George Currie has completed his lease, and contemplates visiting America, and if the conditions regarding fanning are up to expectations will settle down in Canada. . . . Mr. ,T. "Walker, Mangamingi, is selling out nnd going, to Australia, .whilst Mr. H. Cf. Seigel, the Jersey fancier, holds his clearing sale ihis month, and shortly retires to Hamilton, I believe. I asked H. 6. S. if he in-, tended continuing farming, and received a reply that he was giving it best. Thejo three farms will continue to carry dairy cattle, but Eltham will bo losing some good men."

The Braconsfield correspondent of the "Feildinsr Star" states:—"Mr.- T. Scott has sold his farm hers to Sir. Lockward, of Apili, who will lake possession early in July. 'I understand tint Mr. Scott has t-ikeii a farm in the Wanganui district."