GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

' Mr. Small, of Wheatstone, Ash.bu.rton County, shipped a number' of draught horses for Sydney recently. The valiie of the horses was set down at fully .£IOOO.

•■Lambs liave been seen on several farms in ..the Canterbury district. • ■■ ■

■•A farmer wlio has been the round of winter shows.'sees a good future for tho Hawora. show. Hawern, ho says, is going to make a big effort to bo the premier' fixtnl'C'.and oven I'almerston North will have to look to its laurels. * • '

A bullock aged two years and seven months-, and weighing 10-10lb., was lately killed/'by ""■ Ashburfoh butcher. . '

•Peas are. a side-lino.which, fruitgrowers oh the.Kurrajoiig Heights, in New South Wales, find' profitable. The, crops are planted between the trees in the orchard, the only fertilising.element being a little bonedust. .'.,'.".' y'"

Ay farmer in the upper districts, of the Ashburton County-states that his'flock recently -became' affected with a peculiar disease. Acting on the advice of ..a neighbour,-he eat'ted a load of green pinus insignia branches into .tho paddock, when the . sheep ' greedily devoured ' the green needles and the disease has. since disappeared. .

Tho.TJlimaroa, which sailed for-Sydney yesterday, took away fourteen . horses, which were being sent over to the Australian markets.

When the first shipment cf frozen eggs arrived in Loudon from Australia their extreme hardness astonished the brokers (says the "Hark Lane Express"). One man calling at a shipper s office was amazed to see him taking aim at the wall with an egg. The only result was a. slight dint in the wall. The thing being explained, the man took a couple of eggs, put them in. his pocket, and left to startle his wife. Arriving home, he waited till the family was assembled for dinner, and then banged an; egg at the now dado. But the smile quickly faded from Ids face. Tho egg had thawed!

The following statement was made to a North Waiul vcporter by a farmer from the South Island: "We hnd a very dry season down south, and we have proved that in a dry season—that is, a particularly 'dry season—the potatoes that havo not Men sprayed produce better crops than those that have been sprayed. It-is explained in this way, that when there is no rain the spray closes the pores in the leaves and retards the growth of the tubers. It is wet, muggy weather that is particularly favourable to the development of blight." "Feed is rather scarce hero this winter on account of the dry weather we had late in the autumn. However, so far the stock is looking well."—Pahakura correspondent of the Stratford "Post'."