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GENERAL FARM NEWS

The Butter Advisory Committee of Viotoria has issued instructions to butter factories, owing to the decreased production of first grade butter, that until further notice no butter grading 91 points or over is to be packed unsalted. It; has also been decided, for similar reasons, that agents shall on each and every Monday forward a list to the committee showing all butters received by them and placed in cool stores for the preceding week, with the brands, grades, etc., of such produce. Agents who' are short «,of iirst grades may notify the committee, which will arrange for supplies. Potatoes and onions have been bring- , ing very high prices, not only in New Zealand, but also in Western Austra- | lia. Up to the present the Department of Agriculture of that State l.'fs prohibited their importation, except through tho port of Fremantle. Owing to representations made by the Commonwealth Eailways Commissioner, arrangements have now been made under which it will be possible for senders to truck potatoes and onions to Western Australia via the trans-Australian railway. ' At the Bloemfontein annual cattle sale record prices were obtained. A Friesland bull, Bedford Pel Knol sth, was sold for £1000.., Six bulls averaged £656. A two-year-old Friesland heifer, Royal Fancy Oxford de Kol, sold for £550. A South African-bred Shorthorn bull sold for £375. Two imported cowe, Ladv Foggathorpe 7th ana Lady Joy, each, brought £200. Ayrshire cows were in demand. Nether • Craig Lilao (imp.) sold for £175; and Lochfergus Wendy, after selling fbr £165 in the ring, Bold privately next day for £200. ■ It is reported, that the West Australian loss on the purchase of cattle last season in the north-west will amount to £30,000. In the previous season the Government made a substantial profit on its cattle purchases, but the market slumped this year, through oi/§r-supply, combined with the impossibility of securing freight to ship the cattle- to the eastern States.

A New South Wales grazier has found'an effective lick for "black disease," which causes many losses among sheep in the southern tablelands. He fills up Mb-troughs with "a mixture of 101b. salt, lib. lime, and.slb. -sulphur. There is a .natural lick on his property, and in the paddock -where this lick is situated sheep were always free from disease. On analysis the lick gave salt, lime, and sulphur in the above proportions and a, little magnesia. The' lick 'does not act immediately, as deaths will occur for some months after the lick is made available. In about eight months on this grazier's property all deaths from diseaso ceased.

The Wairoa meat works, according to an. exchange, report a verv good season so far. Already over <10,000 sheep and lambs have beets killed. The works iVere oply opened at the end of February. 1917. Killing space is uoouetlright up to the middloof April., Tim average of'tho stock is very fair. The few drafts of lambs that have been sent in are exceptionally good, a big proportion- obtaining special prices, but fiTis "is'due to tho fact that only the cream of the lambs was sent in. Lambs have been hardly- starred m the district. The works are experiencing the labour difficulty that is general in' New Zealaud this year. ,A, few local men are being trained as butch-

• The secretary of the Taranaki Producers' .'.Freezing Works Company,' Ltd., "lias received advice that during' the next five weeks 49,500 boxes of butter aud 17,290 crates of cheese will be cleared from the Moturoa woiks. This will relieve the congestion somewhat.

As stowing the mildness of the season for the milk supply since January 1, a cheese factory manager informed a. Stratford "Post" representative that there tad only been 3. reduction of one cheese in his daily output of over thirty cheese for the past two months.' He remarked upon this as most unusual, as his_ output had generally gone down considerably by' this time of tie year. Mr. E. O'SulliVan, of Waingongoro itoad, l' as (says the Stratford "Post") received word tbat his cow (Sultan's ■Daisy), by Campanile Sultan (imp.) out of Genoa Daisy, has been awarded a gold medal by the New Zealand Jersey Breeders' Association for the best Jersey cow in New Zealand. This cow prodxioed 667.31b. of butter-fat in twelve months. The teats were carried out'by the Department of Agriculture. .

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 8

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GENERAL FARM NEWS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 8

GENERAL FARM NEWS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 8

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