GENERAL FARM NEWS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 148, 12 March 1918, Page 8

GENERAL FARM NEWS

Mr. Evans suggested at Saturday's meeting of the Masterton A, and P. Association that the Ground Cominittoo go into tho question of increasing the accommodation for motor-cars at tho showgrounds.' by removing a. fence further back, and that a charge he Jtade for tboso stationing their motorcars in the first row round the outside ot tho ring. Mr. Evans' was appointed to discuss the matter with the Ground Committee at its nest meeting. The General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday accorded Mr. W. Cooper a hearty veto of thanks for a recent gift of an additional pair of White swans for Solway. At a mooting of the Te Awamutu Farmers' Union the president alluded to the important bearing in the district the development of the, hydroelectrical schemes would have. Electrical energy would completely i'«tolutionise the work on. the farm, and for this reason, if for none other, tho development of tho hydro-electrical schemes needed to be encouraged. The meeting resolved to encourage to any way possible any effort in this direction. Mr. W. H. Buick wrote to the inerting of tho General Committee oi the Masterton'A. and P. Association qu Saturday stating that he considered the time had arrived when tho strid breeders of the Wairarapa and sur- ' rounding districts .should Iwld a stud ram and ewe fair, say, about the end of January, and that it be conducted under the rules o the A. and P. Association, each stud breeder, to bo limited to five stud rams (each breed of sheep) for every hundred ewes in the stud book; stud ewes to be sold in pens of five;-one day for rams and „ one day for euvs; a limit of 30 rams to one breeder; small breeders to be allowed two rams for 2fi owes. 3 rams for 50 ewes, 5 rams for 100 ewes. The suggestion Was held over till tho noxt meeting, in order to give mombera an opportunity to go into the matter.

So anxious are the formers of Northern Albsita to overcome the difficulties occasioned"by the shortage of labour that they are bliyiim up tractors as fast as they can get thorn. One firm alone has sold in this district no fewer than 200 of these machines, for which the farmers in every instance paid cash in advance in ordur to ensure early delivery. This enterprise on the part of the farmers h not only helping to solve the labour difficulty, but ifc is also resulting in a gratifying increase in the acrengo of Farm land under cultivation, says an exchange. Ploughing operations am now in progress in the Masterton district. A farmer near Masterton nade a handsome profit last year by giwiug white clover.