GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

"Tho season is going to bo a phenomenally good one lor local farmers," declares the" manager of a well-known Gisborno commercial, firm. Beef, he 6aid, was fetching 28s. to 2!)5., lambs 0d..t0 5 3-Bd., wether mutton 3jd., ewe mutton 3Jd. These were on tho whole much ahead of prices for several years past. Wool was fetching BJd. to 9Jd. locally, equal to about lid. at Home, and at this figuro farmers had nothing to complain about. Tho spring showers had brought- away the feed, and the present dry .spell had brought about a most, remarkable fattening season, so much so that farmers wero getting as much' as 16s. 3d. for fat ewes. Wool prices wero recovering and his firm had sold tho entire clip of one station recently at, Did. Farmers had doubtless been a little inconvenienced by the strike, but when tho season was over, ho felt sure it, would be found that it had beeii a record one. ( In October last the Stratford County Council passed a resolution urging that tho plant- known as primelea (Stratlimoro weed) ho added to tho third schedule of the Noxious Weeds Act. At the council's meeting on Wednesday a letter was read from Mr. F. S. Pope, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, stating 1 that lie w - as directed .by the .Minister of Agriculture to 7 inform the 1 council that information had been obtained in.regard .to.tho properties of the plant, and the extent to "which it is spreading, and it',is felt, that the danger to be feared from"it is not sufficient to warrant its being declared a noxious weed. _ Some line crops are to bo seen ou the 'laieri Plan just now. Something in the nature of a record must bp established in a ten-acre crop of oats at- Mr.. Ales. Scott's Ellendalo Estate, Mosgiel, where tho average height of the crop has been workod out at 7ft. 2in. The new council of the South Island Breeders' Association, has now been fully clectpd. In only ontSjdistritit.:' Southland, was' : it, necessary to ; hold aballot, all the other members being returned on nomination. Tho election for the .Southland representatives has just been,held, and has resulted in the return of the. old members, Messrs.,.!. M'Crost.ie (Waianawa) and J. M'Ker-. cber OVoodlands). Over. £800 was paid out this month by the Mangaraimirania Cheese Company for tiiilk supplied to its cheese factory during December. The Dannevirke "Xews" states that the payment, was tho largest made by tlie company for a nionth's milk supply sinoo its inception, the rate per lb. of but.t.er-fat being ls.' Obe supplier received a cheque for over £-100. The weather in (.lie Cambridge district -ha s been perfect for the harvesting, ,lmt unless rain comes speedily the dairying industry' will recuv-<' a'- great check, for most-of tlie' suppliers are running short of water and iraiiy wcills are almost dry. Unless. copious rains fall very shortly the. outlook for the dairy fanners will indeed bo serious, - Fat: lamb buyers at Oamaru report that tho killing sheets sho-v that weights ate mticli below what it was anticipated they: would bo. Tho. price remains firm at about..6d. per lb. for-immediate delivery. So much wet weather early in tho'season had, a deterrent effect in the bringing of 'hvmbs to condition, and-it will cvidenfcly;(says the "Maii") be somo "time yet before tlie damage already done in this respect can be mado good as tho result of tho line weather that is expected. i -. That lucerne Ctkn'bo successfully grown in. tho Pahia tua district, over, without 'the'aid of inoculated soil, has been ampljV demonstrated by .Mr, W. A. Wallis, of Ngaturi, who has a splendid crop.of three-quarters of an acre oil his property. The teed was obtained form the Agricultural Department. On Tuesday, Mr.-Wpllis brought a fine sample of the valuable fodder ""into the "Herald" office. The sample was taken from a second cutting of the crop this year, the height of the crop being from 2ft. Gin. to 3ft. "It's got to be clone," said a checsj. factory manager (ho other day. "Here are other factories installing" 'Victor' Vats, increasing their profits and the productive quality, of" their cheese." Yes, Sir. l;eep in line and write Paf'ton today for full particulars of the quality and profit-increasint: capabilities of the "Victor" Vat. Drop a line now. Albert J, I'arion, Plumber, Carterton.—Advt.