GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1857, 17 September 1913, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Evidence that the mortality among tho ewes this lambing season' in the Dannevirko district has heen very low is furnished by the small number or skins offered at yesterday s sale. A member of a Dannevirko mercantile house states that they usually find that if there has been any considerable roortality amongst ewes when lambing it is reflected in the largo number of skins .especially. ;at this sale. ; , f

Mr: James Hunt, of Richmond, shipped a fine pedigree Jersey bull to tho West Coast on Saturday, where the dairying industry is being largely entered into. Mr. Hunt has made several shipments from his pedigree herd, and this has necessitated further purcha-scs, and ho hopes very shortly to introduce some, very fine stock into tho district. There is an unprecedented demand for fat cattle in the South Island at the present time. . A. Nikau settlor states that weasels are killing young lambs in that district, no fewer than eight lambs having been found dead one morning last week by . one-settler. Each lamb showed signs of having been attacked by a weasel.

The Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, paid out on Monday the sum of £4200, made up of bonus payments, and milk supplied during August. The payment for the latter is fit the rate of Is. per lb. of butter-fat. The total paid out for the corresponding month of last year was £4000. The present Supply of milk is in excess or that for the samo period of 1912. With reference to Mr. Wakeman's method of dealing with toitoi and cabbage tree leaves and flax as fodder for cattle, the observations mentioned wero brought tho notice of Majot Young of the Agricultural Department, by a Hawera "Star" reporter. The officer stated that tho properties of tho -three plants mentioned were wellknown to tlie Department and early settlers. and their ieeding value was practically nil, while their medical propertics as laxatives or tonics were unreliable. Very frequently, said Major Young, somo of these plants had caused the.death-of good cows so there_was nothing to recommend them, from either a commercial or a feeding point of view. Two or three gors© shrubs at the edge of a swamp contained more feeding properties than toitoi, cabbage trees, and flax all together.

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