GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

A' shipment of. 30 half-draught horses and hacks was sent tq .Sydney yesterday by' Mi ; : F. B. "Watts! The horses came mostly from Blenheim and Levin. A ewe with four lambs,'all doing well, is to' be' seen on Sir. S. Wilson's farm near F.ketahuna. Latc-st. advices statu .that there, are. still 522 boxes of butter in cool store at Now Plymouth and- 152 boxes at Auckland. , ■ 'Tis. an ill wind that blows no one good. The dast shipment of chceso from the Cardiff factory was, according to a Taranaki piper, held up by the strike in London. Tho prico, when it arrived, was 60s. 6d., but when tho shipment was sold tho price had risen to 6Gs." . Crrcen peas in August are rather a novelty, but a Taranaki resident is stated to have been picking them for the past two or , three .vtoks. Tho owning of tho Kongotea Dairy Factory is to bo celebrated with a luncheon at tho Coronation Hall, Rongotea, on Friday, next. Speaking at. a recent meeting of the Ashburton A. and P. Association, Air. I). G,_AY.right said.he. understood-it was tho intention of the Government to exempt thoroughbred stallions from_ examination for hereditary unsoundness in tho measure to Ive brought before the House in that direction. Ho thought this'was very unwise and h» svigiicsted that Messrs. W. Nosworthy and C. A. G. Hardy, Jl.P.'s, 1)0 asked 'to oppose the proposed, exemption of thoroughbred stallions from compulsory inspection. "