Fanning Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 254, 30 April 1895, Page 2

Fanning Notes

• (By Agricola.) THE MARKETS. I am sorry to note that there is not much improvement in the prices of stock lately. I prognosticated that with the grass coming on upon the , new burns that prices would improve. I think we must have found bed rock prices lately. Some pessimists will tell me that we shall see prices lower yer. Ido not think so. BOILING DOWN. • Mr A. Bell, of the Makino road, ; has started to boil down again. It ' was anticipated when the frozen meat , trade assumed such proportions that , we should never have to resort to the old system again of turning our sheep < into fat, and retailing the legs ot mutton all over the country. Such, ! however, is the case. GOliiO HOME. ; Mr Sampson, who has lately ! leased his farm at Waituna to Messrs Grice and Gower, intends leaving • for Home, in company with Mrs StimpsoD, about the beginning' of May next. He is undtsided whether ! he will return again. •' The people tell me," says Mr Stimpson," that I . won't be satisfied with Home, but • that I shall soon come out again " I see that Mr A. D. Willis, M H.R., | for Wanganui, is making the best of ; his time at Home. Mr Willis is not j a farmer, and of course is not taking . much interest in farming matters, but he is making enquiries into the t labor question, and will be well I posted in such matters when "be returns to Plow Zealand, which he expects to do about June. POTATO CROPS. ' The crops throughout the districts vary very much. In the Awahuri and Palmerston districts I hear there I are poor crops. In the Kiwitfta district there are heavy crops. Mr Mcj Dermott and others have splendid » crops. I hear that Mr McDermoSt j has sold large quantities ot his crop . at £4 per ton, I believe the same j rates rule in Feildmg just now. AMBER CANE. 3 There appears to be some interest j taken just now in this fodder. Our j American cousins have grown it in large areas, and with great profit. It I has been grown in Campbelltown 1 and is an immense " cropper." It proves to be excellent feea for milch ,' cows, keeping 1 up the quantity and j improving- the quality of the milk in . the winter season. I presume that . large areas of this fodder will be 9 grown by the suppliers of miJk to . the dairy factories as it is necessary j in order to make the factories pay to i keep up the milk supply all the year round. Mr Watson, ot Feilding, is . the agent tor the seed. T ——————