GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

At a meeting of tho Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society it wae decided that the next show 1)0 held on the Wednesday and Thursday following the Hawke's Bay show. It was also resolved to hold a gift stock sale on March '24 at Carterton. It is hoped to raise sufficient funds by this moans to erect fifty hull stalls on tho grounds and to malio other improvementii. Messrs. W. J. Nix, W. K. Bidv/ill, J. 'J>tham, J. O. Didwell, and Holmes Warren, all well-known Wairarnpa sheep farmers, disposed of a number of stud sheep at the Gisborno ram fair last week, satisfactory prices being realised for tho various lote. At a meeting of the general committee of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society last week a letter was read from Mr. F. G. Moore, or Masterton, returning a debentm-e taken up by" him iu 1879, and asking the- society to <k< .what they, taflfct fit .ffith jt. _^

secretary was' instructed to ivrito a letter of thanks to Mr. Moore, s

An emphatic contradiction of the report thai; tlio potato areas between Msilieno and Timaru arc severely attacked by disease is mado by the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association. It is stated that tho crop will be an averago one in spito of the fact that some diseaso has made itself evident in somo of the crops.

No fewer than 1,530,2181b. of butterfat passed through tho hands of the New Zoalaud Dairy Association during tho month of December, representing an increase of 111,6591b. over tho >amouut dealt with during the corresponding month of tho previous year. This amount resulted in the distribution of £71,195 los. 10d. amongst the suppliers. In Decembdr, 1912, tho but-ter-fat, supplied at Manawatu, totalled 36,5951b., and was increased to 44,4013 lb. last' December, a difference of nearly 80001b. . ....

Tho labour market in Ashburton has been very brisk for the past ■ fortnight, and on three days of last week one agent dispatched 85 men into the country, while;, for tho week his total reached 150 men: The agent informed tho "Press's' 'Ashburton. cro respondent that fully 50 per cent, of thoso seeking employment are .immigrants from the Old Land,; tho majority having had experience in agricultural work.

The Californian thistle is reported by a , recent visitor to Southland.to , be flourishing', apace in '. tho country disEven in tho streets of Invercargill ho noticed that it had got a hold. At any. rate in one street ho saw somo of theso weeds forcingtheir way through the asphalt footpath.

_ Threshing from tho. stook is'becoming general in the Ashburton county,' and of tho forty mills in tho county all but twelve havo pulled out. Given fine weat]ier, a record should , be established, as tho bulk of the grain will show a big yield. . ■

The motor-car is noloneer a vehicle for pleasure, farmers haying brought it into practical use. Quite recently a fanner purchased a largo farm dray and. frame at a clearing sale in tho Ashburton county, and having no means to get the dray,home, hitched it to his car,' and sot off on his homoward jour-* noy of about eight miles.

"It's j>ot to be done," said a cheese factory manager the other day. "Here aro other factories installing 'Victor , Vats, increasing their profits and the pro-ducti-re quality of their cleese." Yes, Sir, keep in line and write Parton. today for full particulars of the quality and profit-increasing capabilities of . the "Victor" Vat. Drop a lmo now. Albert J. Parton, Plumber, Oarterton.—Advt,