GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1246, 30 September 1911, Page 4

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

By tho Warrimoo, which left yestorday, it horses (draughts) wero Shipped to Sydney by Mr. P. B. Watts. Ono ton of eggs is an extraordinary quantity to be dispatched in one day by a sinjle firm, but that amount was sent down to Wellington yesterday by tho Levin Auctioneering Company, nccording to tho "Hcvrowhenua Chroniclo." This quantity consists of close upon one thousand dozen eggs, and tho extraordinary part of tho case is that although the towls of the district liavo been so fecund during recent weeks the prico of eggs is rising. Last we-c-k. Is. per. dozen wholesale was paid to Levin consignors. A consignment of little owls, arranged for by Jlr. R. H. Rhodes, during his recant visit to Bngland, on behalf of tho Waimate County Council, arrived at their destination last Monday. Great interest was displayed by the Canterbury Executive of tlio Farmers' Union at its last meeting on the question of the growth of inair.e for sheep feed. It was stated by Mr. J. Macpherson, of tho Agricultural Department, that maize had been successfully grown as far south as Balclutha. Tlio use of it for sheep fe«l, he said, was somewhat new, but there could be no doubt that it would l» efficacious if sown about the beginning of November, when the soil was warm. After two months it would bp sufficiently advanced for the sheep to be turned into it. Mr. J. O'llalloran said that ho had been advised by a farmer who had used maize that it was very much better than rape as eheep feed,