GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1203, 11 August 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The growing of peas for soil renovation purposes is advocated by Mr. A. B. Wood, agricultural chemist. '-'Not only would tho farmers find it profitable," said Mr. Wood, to a. "Wairaropa. Times" reporter, "but the land would be left in a good condition, the farmer getting, a frso supply of nitrogen from the crop. I consider this one of the best-means of rejoining nitrogen from tho atmosphere. There wa-s on view at • Asbburton on Monday, a fine sample of a 3fl-ton to the nere crop of potatoes, which about establishes a record for New Zealand, says a Christchurch paper. The potatoes are similar in every way to the Up-to-Dato variety, a.nd were grown by Mr. S. Holland, on his farm at Tinwald. The seed was imported from Teneriffe, and (he same is about perfect in shape, and fre.3 from anv trace whatever of_ blight or defects. " "" Overtures havf baen made for the amalgamation of th? Stratford'and Hniakama Dairy Companies, and if, >has been decided to hold a pint meeting of tho two directorates to further discuss the proposal. According to Melbourne advices a cablegram has been, dispatched;-to the Hijh Commissioner informing hirii" that no animal which during the last -12 months ha.s been within 59 miles of a? place where foot and month disease was known to exist will be admitted to the Commonwealth until further notice. The information will be published in Great Britain for the information of stockowners and a»«its. . . . ..

Soniothiiig like a record .for a big sale of dairy slock was established the other day in I'arauaki, when 31 r. J. Stevenson's daily nerd oi IBS head averaged £3 10s. each under the lianmior of Messrs. (Jillies and Nalder. There were no special breeds, and Air. Stevenson, who. is a Kapuni farmer, is to be congratulated on the condition in which lie - marketed his stock, ilr. Stcven&ou has psveii,',U]>Silairyin!c j O r fattening. '" ■" . . The bruising of cattle when going through the "raws" at tha Auckland abattoirs is found to be greatly reduced (says an exchange) by the adoption of the u.-e of electric prosls to hurry the cattle along, instead of Hammering tnem with sticks. The report of the Pihama Co-operative Dairy Factory shows that duriug tho period ending June 3D, .Kll, ICoGO.OSqib. -of milk were received, arid from this 71!),1761b. of commercial butter have, been manufactured, giving the result of lib. of butter to 23.031b. milk. The average test was 3.751, and the overrun. 15:6. Tho average payment for buttev-fat for the season was HKOld.. and there now remains a furplus of ,£1278 12s. 3d., to hi dealt wtili, which, with the amount already paid, represents a value for butter-fat for the whole year of IO.SIkI. '. . A dairy' farmer in the Forty-Mile Bush district, who last'season milked eighteen cows on a small farm of approximately fifty acres, states that he netted an average nf cCI 3 2s. sd. per cow for his milk returns. .

The sum of .£2600 is a fairly large one to b<? drawn by <)«c man from butter mid cheese factories for milk supplied duriiiß 0110 season, but this amount, within u fraction, was received by a dairy fanner in this district for Inst season's supplies sava the Pahintiia "Herald ). Of course the mill: was not taken from one farm, and this clipque did not all bo to Hip banking account of the dairy farmer. A considerable sum was expndod 111 the parment of different families, who 111 the majority of cases were milking on the share system. Rabbits in sonic pp.rfcs of the Mastcrton di-itrict have been found to he in a iiir eased condition. The disease is not unlike hydatid , -. The' complete sheep returns will not be ready for publication until, about the middle- of next month.