GENERAL FARMING NEWS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3052, 13 April 1917, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS

Mr. A. E.' Tyer, of Motueka, proposes establishing a fruit preserving and rabbit'canning factory near Blenheim.

Tile majority of the thrashing mills in the Ashbmton County finished up thrashing operations for the season prior to tbe Easter holidays. Some, of the mills lire still -working, but they expect to clean up tho remainder of the thrashing at an early date.

Tho rabbit post lias, says <m exchange, become a very serious cue in South Canterbury, rabbits being now more plentiful than ever they have bec-n before. Some people, however, are turning them to good account, in that they are making a living by trapping and shooting, the skins, or the rabbits unskmned, fetching a good price. Tho m, s are mos " 7 sold i |l Dunodin. Tlie chairman of the Waimea County Council (Councillor H. Everott), in advocating that tho council should donate £10 towards the cost of tho representation of Nelson at tho National Apple Show, remarked, incidentally (says the Nelson "Evening Mail"),"that, the' Cawthron trustees recognised tho importance of the fruit industry to Nolson, as the great bulk of the Cawthron boquest would be devoted to research ivork in connection with fruit.

The Oamaru correspondent of the Lytt-olton "Times" says it has been made tolerable clear that the season's product .of wheat has already nearly passed out of growers' hands. Practically all tile larger growers have Bold, and very few holdings of any tiling approaching 1000 sacks remain. A fair number of transactions were recorded during the week, but none was of any size worthy of special note, the general •range being from 250 to 500 sacks. In $he sales velvet continues to preponderate, which goes to show how much better the autumn and winter wheat did than tho spring sown. As a consequence of the large inflow l of -Australian oats into the Dominion the local market has received a check, aiid only a small amount of business is being done at prices which show a declino. Only a fow odd lots of Gartens found buyers during the week the prices •paid, net at country stations, being from 3s. Id. to 3s. 3d. for light feed, according to' sample.