GENERAL NOTES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2671, 18 January 1916, Page 8

GENERAL NOTES

Harvesting operations in the Marion .. and Feilding districts are now in full >. awing, and some good stacks are being .built 'up, reports an exchange. Around , and abdut Bunhythorpe a lnucli larger J .-- area than usual is under crop,, and good •returns are expected. The hay crop is j. i ••.mow-'receiving attention, the excellent i "weather of the past few weeke permititing of the maturing and gathering of j ' the .crop -with the best results. ■ A 50- :■■■■■ .aero farm in the Bunuythorpe district : lias just changed hands at £72 10s. per acre. .'.'For another property bought six : years, ago for £40 per acre, an offer of , £60 per acre was refused. ■ "While passing through the Henderson i , district, Auckland, last -week, Mr. C. J. iParr, M.P., drew the attention of the Minister of Railways, tho Hon. W. H. • Hemes; to the great strides that -had-1 iV ibeen made by the fruit-growing industry. , As showing the capabilities of tho district,- be mentioned that 400 people -ivero now raising fruit within a radius ' . of two miles, and that last season about j - i- three times as much fruit-was sent by, , :1 ; c -oin' tho station as in tho previous ' SBSBOO.. '- - _ ; -j ! /-/ . -u.ut.ji has been written and said about i the shortness of the straw in the oat crops this season, but Mr. E. Lee has • • on his property, on the Factory Road, near Temuka, oats that are standing i ; over six, feet high, many'of. the stalks being, well over that length. The head is also .satisfactory, states the "North, ;•• Otago Times." .. ' ; The Mast-erton Co-operative Dairy ' Company will commence storing butter . :for the. winter trade, at- the end of January. During, the month of Decern-. . iber the, company sent 36,6241b.. of but:ter to .cool storage for export.'; A sum ■of £219S was paid out for butter-fat. "supplied during the month of Decem- ; ' ber. "I ' Tho .'present season has .been one of 1 :t.ho best experienced for stock, in the pWainnaps.'.': l . Lambs havo done so well ; , - --tliaf, fifty and sixty, per .cent, have been ; ['iifted'.by the buyers on the first, draft, i The'Now-Zealand Poultry 'Industries, r • iitd,,...report as follows: —Supplies are ' ■ shortj-and the demand good.'The whole--1 sale price advanced one penny, to' Is. ■ 6d. dozen, as from yesterday.