GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1166, 17 June 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

\ Co-operativo bacon curing is said to bo ! very popular in tho Australian States at present. Some of tho co-operative concerns i ero' putting through largo numbers of | pigs- '' The president of tbo Wisconsin DairyI men's Association, in his address to tho annual conferenco recently, remarked that .tho law now in force in tho Stato of Wisconsin requiring cows to bo tested for tuberculosis was one of tho best that had ever been enacted in the interest of tho farmer. The testing of all cattle that were sold for. brcsding purposes protected purchasers from unscrupulous dealers, .and would, if continued, eliminate the disease from tho Stato." If our Stato," ho added, "can have tho name of having stock free from tuberculosis, and coupled with that the best stock in tho land, we : >wili have an industry in raising stock which will be second only to the milk product." The annual value of dairy pro--ducts in Wisconsin, it may bo mentioned, ;is ,£16,000,001). A grub has made its appearance in-soma of-the maize crops in the Kendall district, in New South Wales. The crub is said to eat its way into the stalk of tho corn, and forces a passage up tho centre, demolishing tho pith, and consequently !' .weakening tho stalk. Jlr. Froggatt, tho Government entomologist, says that tho post is probably a : native insect similar to tho sugarcane borer, found on tho Northern rivers, and known as the cut-worm moth, which bores ■into tho leafy part of tho sugarcane.