GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

' Tli© ■shower bath dip for sheop is be'fcoming popular' in Australia. It is ,found to wet them quito as thoroughly Vis a plunge'dip. [I'ho sheep are not '.shy of entering it, and tho cost is very 3ow, a shed which will wet 40Vor 50 ,sheop at a time not costing moro tlfan #10.

~'Tha Pongaroa district is looking -well iiit the present time. Thero i 3 a'fair growth of autumn grass,, while stock generally is hv good order. An. expert .enced farmer in that district informed a "Pahiatua Herald" representative that the season was ono of tho best .lever cxperiehcecL The Waiono district ..also presents, ah excellent appearance, 1 and the farrnrs, 'anticipate a successful ( .;year.," : '- ; : -,-'-,;,'■

Tasmania--is' passing through art'.unusually dry season.' There was'no. : Tain, during January,, and tho injurious effects of the.summer sun havo,.says tho "Australasian,".- been aggrayatcd : .by tho frequent drying winds experienced!' ';- '

, By the ;Sydney steamer leaving at.the pni of-; this-month, Mr. F. TV!.' Fairqy, of Nelson, •/ is'.•shipping" two bullocks ; to, compete at tho Sydney Royal ShoV in the fat cattlo. section against tho pick' of Australia'.; ■' Yor,y strenuous efforts jar© being made.by N.S. Wales growers to keep 1 the championship, and Mr. Far-: Toy expects 'a,;.very .'keen competition. Tho bullocks aro entered under the: names . "Maorilarider" and." "Maori King.!' : , -

The Patea, Freezing .Works, aro now going full swing' ahead in tlio- tempor-i ary premises they havo erected sinco tho fins. It i 8 just three weeks sinco tli directors .decided to work on in a. small way, and 400 sheep, and up to 30: cattlo por- day aro now being handled.

Tho world exacts from yon its toll of worry and work—there's no need for you to add to it. Mako things-as easy as you can—"Victor" Vats lighten labour and belp increase tho quality of. the cheese.' "Victor" Vats have that sloping bottom' which' caused- such a sensation in tho cheese-making -world! -Every -factory '■ should havo "Victor" Vats, i they arci built, for efficiency and satisfaction. Wrifofor pnrliculnrs. Albert J, I'arton, I'lumbcr, Carterton.—Advt. An American 'dramatist,-observing to a friend tho thinness'of tlir- liriiisc Vft oim'of tlio ploys given during tho-Spanish'War, added ho supposed it was owing to Mm war. "No," replied "life friend, "I should judge it MS owing to the. picce."-