GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1859, 19 September 1913, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

A meeting'of the provisional directors, oi tho New Zealand Poultry "Industries, was held oh September 17, at the Hotel Cecil, Wellington, when it was [resolved to register the company forthwith. It i.i stated tlmt tho company ■is the result of conferences among those 'interested in egg-production, and tho [object is to secure supplies, and to mariket eggs and other poultry products. j'Tlie capital is fixed at £20,000, of j'wliich £1500 was subscribed before the was decided on. The movement was first spread over the district botween Palmerston Mid Wellington, .but, recently, ivas extended) to the Nel- • son and Blenheim districts, .whero a ]quarter of the subscribed shares' were :<taken. lb is stated that Motueka will smpply the company with soven or eight thousand dozen eggs weekly. One use of the largo capital will be for holding .stocks of eggs in cold storage in times .of abundance. It is expected that tho (company's operations will largely affect 'tho egg industry throughout New Zealand. Mr! Primmer, of the Government veterinary staff, lectured'to farmers on .Cook's Farm, Kairanga, week, under the auspiccif" of the Farmers' iUnion on diseases of dairy cattle. Highly satisfactory prices were realised on Monday for tho Raoiginui herd of registered pedigree Holstein-Friesian icattle. This hord, tho property of Mr. JGeorgo Niehol, was disposed of by auction at I'apatoetoo, Auckland, and I largo numbers of buyers Wore, present. [The Ranginui Holotcm-Friesians aro' iehiofly descendants, of cattle imported .from Holland by tho Now South Wales Government, and by Sir John Hay. The cattlo offered at the salo includod several champion animals, and .some of tho best Holstoin-Friesians to bo found in the Dominion. Between 50 and GO Hol-■st'oin-Friesian cow'S, heifers, and calvcs .wero sold, for about £2000; a dozen bulls fetching another £500. 'The higliIc3t price realised during tho day. was j 145 guineas for Jewel 11. of Brundee.

• Tho early winter-sown coreal crops .in the Ashburton county at tho present jtitno arc looking remarkably well (states a southern exenange). They aro firmjly established, and have "stoolod" out jinost satisfactorily and aro making .strong and rapid growth. Had the j weather been fine during the past two j weeks practically all the coreal crops would navo been sown, but as it is thero ia still a fairly cxtensivo acreage unsbwn ; , All things considered, farmers have been very fortunate this season in regard to too advancement of their work.

' A meoting of the Agricultural Committeo of tho Mastorton A. and P. Association was hold 011 Wednesday for the purpose of meoting Mr. A. do liaylis, of the Agricultural Department, and discussing tho question of agricultural experiments. After tho matter had boon dealt with l'n'.all its hearings, the. committee decidod to recommend tho Ground Committee to set aside two acres of ground at Solway for tho purposo of experiments. in grass-seeds. A motion was also carried in favour of thd association procuring an area of land for tho purpose of conducting "group"- experiments.