GENERAL FARMING NEWS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1220, 31 August 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS

Brick additions which will cost about .£3OOO are- to be. made to the Taranaki ■ Freezing Company's works at. Mohirpti. Provision is being* made by the company iu tho additions to cope with the frozen pork industry, which it :is anticipated will assume large proportions in'Taranaki ■at no very distant date. Tlio grass grub is still levying toll on southern pastures. Reports from tho Jlawanlcn, Woodgrove, and Jfason'? Flat districts all bring.'advice of the havoc played by the grub. On some farms many alros of grass have been completely destroyed, leaving the land brown and bare. An Ashburtoa grain merchant disposed of a. fairly large line of Garton oats last •week at 2s. 6d. per" bushel on trucks, sacks extra. Thrre months ago he could only realise 2s. 3}<l. per bushel for" tho line. Draught-horse breeders in New Zealand haVe been doiiig a large, and profitable trade with Australia, and it is not surprising that in some parts of the Dominion alarm is fplt at the number of mares going out of the country (says the 'Tasiorolisis' Review"). Jfew. Zealand enjoys a nnqiuo reputation for the standard; of .her heavy horses, and it. would be a most uuwisn policy en the part cf breeders to deplete- ..their. 'studs for the fake of the high- prices "how ruling in Australia. ■ ■■ Speaking at' the annual -meeting of tno Eongokokako Cheese Co., the. chairman, Hr. W. Elliott, said the company had tried thn experiment of parafining checsa for the English market. The result was a gain in shrinkase for the company, but tho buyers at the,other end objected to the process, as the cheese did not keep satisfactorily after, being, cut-■ It was not the intention of His directors to continue tho process. ..-.■ .-.