GENERAL FARM NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2420, 27 March 1915, Page 10

GENERAL FARM NEWS

Deptford Oattle Market, .equipped as \i) is with piill rooms, lias, witli the decline of the live cattle import trade, teen practically a, dead letter for one or twe yeare past.- The City of London Corporation naturally finds this a useless : burden, on its 'hands, and among the suggested uses to whioh the market could be put has before now been that of ah Australian cold store depot which those who have championed the isolation) of Australian imports in one centre have advocated. However, nothing in this way has eventuated', and now the War Office is reported to be preparing to take over the whole market from, the Carpffraiicm. at a fixed price.

The clearances of frozen' moat from tie Commonwealth to. all oversea ports during February totalled 247,409 carcasses mutton, 129,884 carcasses lambs, 135,922 quarters beef, 1265 oaroasses 454 sides veal, which, compared with the output for January, shows' ap increase of 59,967 carcasses mutton, 15,697 caroasses lamhs, 46,241 quarters beef, 877 caroasses veal, and a decrease or ,77 sides veal. When placed besides the •total for the corresponding month of (last year, February; 1914, there is an 'increase of 8450 quarters beef, and a decrease of . 68,074 carcasses mutton and 130,096 carcasses lainb. r Breeders of shorthorn cattle will be interested to'-know that the next meeting of the Purebred Shorthorn Breeders' Association, formed twelve months ago, will be held 1 ' at the Weraroa. Experimental Farm nest month. The association (says the "Horowhenua Chronicle") has made splendid progress since ite • formation, and: now it has a. substantial balance at the bank. Entries have been received from the Wairarapa. Taranaki, and-Woodville districts, and «ven from .Waikato.