GENERAL NOTES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2674, 21 January 1916, Page 10

GENERAL NOTES

Lambs have done particularly well this season in the msterton district, according to the "Wairarapa Age." One settler, who has just shorn 700 lambs, obtained 6} bales of wool therefrom, all full bales, weighing over 4cwt. In ordinary seasons a 4-cwt. bale requires tho wool of from' 175 to 200 Romney-Lincoln lambs to fill it.

' Messrs. Al'Donald Bros., of Maharahara, are the fortunate possessors of a phenomenal crop of "Storm King" oats. Random samples, of the -grain submitted to a.. "Dannevirke News" representative, disclosed. stalks containing 011 an average. 257 pods, while that of the everyday stalk works out at about 100. - Tho oats cover. some 128 .acres ori the. owners' property, and it is anticipated will yield anything from 100 to 120 bushels to the acre.

During liis recent visit to the South . [eland, the Hon. Dr. M'Nab saw some--1 thing of the drought conditions at present prevailing in Canterbury. Speaking to a Wanganui "Herald" reporter, Dr. . stated that ..\yhil© the farmers were having a particularly Rood year;' the whole of the country north of Dimedin appeared absolutely ■parched. Naturally, a lot of Canter-bury-stock had gone to Southland. Much wheat was already in stook or ■ stack, having ripened very early owing to the lack of growth, and yields would •■he low'. Ho had seen one 66 acre field Vliere the whole of the crop was contained;™ tjro 'mall stacks. ,Part of the oat- crop would not bo cut at all, ■ farmers" not., considering it woi : th the '.trouble' to harvest such poor stuff. They intended to/ turn stock into the standing grain.; .' ■ 1 ■The new! freezing works at Taihape are at preseiit.putting through upwards .ot'a thousand sheep per day.

Harvesting operations at" the Wereroa Experimental ; Farm are proceeding apace, and the crops promise ! good returns. ; Tho hay was made in good condition',' the. weather being favourable. The: 1 lkst week's hot weather has wrought a marked change in the wheat which is -fast taking_ on the goldgn' col-our-of ripeness. This crop, judging by' its'present appearance, will givo a return of between'4o and 50 bushels per acre, and but for a-storm some time ago, : which 1 beat, some of'it down in places, would more than equal last year's crop in yield.—"Horowhenua Chronicle."