GENERAL FARMING NEWS
That there are Rood times ahead for Canterbury '. stockmen is confidently predicted by a Timaru auctioneer. Hβ based his conclusion on tho firmness of tho high prices now ruling on. the English, meat market, and tho excellent and abundant feod there is available in the district for ihe winter. Prices, he considered, would maintain a rising tendency rather than otherwise for £ome time to come, and altogether the farmer's prospects seem particularly rosy. It is estimated that the crop of, barley in Jfarlboroußh was somewhere between 80,000 and 90,000 sacks, but from that.total must bo deducted tho serious losses caused by recent fires. ■In all, between 20,000 and 30,000 sacks of barley were destroyed or seriously damaged, leaving between 50,000 and 00,000 sacks available of the new season's crop. Some 15,000 sacks were carried over from the previous season,, so.that.the total amount available jsjn bhern.eighbourhoodnofc-75, > o()olsa'cl^)rr/:r
The Agricultural Cbmmitteo of the Masterton A. and P. Association has decided to ask the Department of Agricultnro to consider a better scheme of. agricultural experiments than is at present conducted. The committee: is of opinion that better results would accrue from central plots. . ;
The Agricultural Committee of th\e Mastortoii A. nud P. Association has appointed a sub-committee to obtain all possible information regarding .the establishment of an' Asricnltnral High School in Mastcrton, and to report to the next meeting.
The "Richmond" best niiswers the ruiestion as to which Oil Engine to. purchase. All. the good things we can Bay of it are backed up by hundreds •of users.,,; If holds thp highest awards of. any' Oil Engine- in'tho world. Surely you. are prompted to call or write. Sole 'Agent, Albert , J. Parton, Plumber, .Carterton.—' Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2150, 16 May 1914, Page 8
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285GENERAL FARMING NEWS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2150, 16 May 1914, Page 8
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