Farming Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 276, 31 March 1894, Page 4

Farming Items.

The prospects for rabbits Mr Tonkin says are hopeless, but he thinks there is [ an opening for a good business in fowls. In this the poulterers of the London mar- j kets agree with him. The fowls should arrive here as chickens during the months of Vfarcb, April and May. It would be better still if they could reach us by the middle of February. Ducks ma? be included with equal chance of a good sale ; but both these kinds of poultry will require to be properly dressed and then frozen. It is useless sending them in their feathers They should be trussed before freezing, and sent here ready for ( roasting, and securely packed in cases. » If ordinary fowls, snch as a cross between ' the game and dorking, were sent in good condition, they would realise from 4s to 63 a couple, according to quality, and ducks 5s to 78. The future height to which a newly-born foal will attain when a full-grown horse may (writes the hive s tock Journal") be approximately ascertained by doubling the length of his fore lim»i, measuring from the fetlock to the elbow, and a well-known veterinary physiologist. writin evidently from observation, says that thissratemert appears to be true. From the knee to the ground the limb is nearly the full length of the length of the adult animal, but it is decidedly shorter from the knee to the elb'»w than at maturity. One sometimes boars it said that ihe legs never grow in length, an assertiou which is evidently inaccurate The iSevf Zealand Times states that by 'he Tarawra on Thursday n lar<re consignment of Npw Zealand bred sheep was shipped to Messrs Pitt, Sons, and Bad^ery, Limited, stock nnd station agents Sydney, by tbeir representative, Mr H.J. Davies. The consignment includes Lincolns from the flocks of Messrs. J B and Fred Sutton (Southland), th* New Zealand and Australian Lnnd Association, Mr Donald Grant (Palmprston). nnd M^spw Andrew Brotherand others; al o Romney-- from tJi • New Zealand and Australian hnmi Association, Border Leicesters from Mr JVJcKerrow, and English Lein< — ters from Mr W. B. Andrews The mnjori'.y of the sheep have been purchased by the Sydney firm for various clients. The remainder are sent on consignment for sale. Mr Davies. the company's representative, is now i making a tour of the North Island. and expects -,o despatch farther large consignments of sheep shortly.