Farming Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 266, 17 March 1894, Page 4

Farming Items.

In Tasmania, in 1892, there were I 1,622,389 sheep in the island, 1,000,000 of ( which were not dipped. If dipped, it is . estimated the increased value of the clean ) fleece/taken, say, at 6d per fleece, would i mean annually £25,000 extra to the | colony, making the export so much more. The immense quantities of eggs imported into the „ Unified Kingdom give nope that the trade now being inaugurated by Victoria in the export of frozen eggs may yet assume enormous proportions. According to the Grocer (published in London) of December 16th. last, the value of tlie eggs imparted into j the United Kingdom for tbe previous 11 ' months was _?8,562,890, as compared with £8,492,724 for the same period in 1892, and £3,193,416 in 1891. The greater proportion of these eggs were received from France, which sent in the first 11 months of last year 3,705, 079 great hundreds (120's) of eggs, or 758,290 great hundreds more than two j'ears ago. Why should not Victoria export eggs to the value of £1,000,000 annually ?— Australasian. A farmer in East Kent, not long ago, gave up possession of a farm near Wingham, for which, during the thirtyfive years he has been tbe tenant, he has paid £11,000 in rent. His father and grandfather occupied the same farm before him, and paid between them £22,000 in rent. A careful estimate made recently shows that the valne of agricultural land in East Yorkshire, calculated to be £37,500,000 in 1878, has now depreciated to the extent of £15,000,000. Tbe capital value of the tenant farmers, which was £4,500---000 in 1878, is now put down at £2,500,000, and it is estimated that the farmers of the East Riding have lost £300,000 during the past season.