GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Shccp aro still being sold on forward delivery in the Eketahuna district. Ono stock firm lias turned over 14,000 to date. During the last few weeks about £18,000 worth of elieeso has been forwarded overseas from the Patea grading stores, and next week another shipment of seven thousand crates will bo sent-, tlius makipg about £46,000 sinco the opening of tlio season. This is in dadition to 1780 boxes of butter already sent, and about 800 boxes to be forwarded by the Ruapoliu. Messrs. Collett and Company ■ will again handle tho output of the Lepperton Dairy Company this season on consignment with guarantee without recourse. At tho last meeting of tho Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society, 29 new members' were elected. Following aro tho conditions under flinch tho cup, valued at 30 guineas, presented to tho Wairarapa and East Coast P. and ,A. Society, by Messrs. Cooper and Nephews, manufacturers of Cooper's Sheep Dip, will bo competed for: —" That it be allotted to tho winner of tho most points in either Lincoln or Komney Marsh classes of pure-bred sheep in tho society's schedule. Points to count first 3, second 2, third 1. Tho clip siiall bo a ehallengo cup for tlio first tlirco years, 1913-1.4-15, but wins shall not be counted. . Subsequently it shall bo offered for competition in the abovo mentioned clases on tho condition tliat it s'hall bo won three times, not necessarily in succession, beforo becoming tho absolute property of tho winner. In tho event of ties, tho names of winners to ho engraved on the cup, but that year's _ competition shall not count in final win for tho cup." Although the Kaukapakapa. district (Auckland) was favoured with an early spring, the growth 'mndo by grass in tho la3t fortnight is not very satisfactory. Compared with tlio usual September weather, last month's was dry, or.lv 3.05 in. of rain having fallen on 12 days. Tho rainfall during the winter was so scanty that the hill country was never thotoughly wet, and even tlio flats were not saturated as is usual. Ono effect of tho abnormal season (says tho "Herald's" correspondent) is to turn dairy-farmers' attention to getting in green crops, a larger area than ever being mado ready for tlieso supplies.