HOROWHENUA A. AND P. SOCIEIY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 January 1915, Page 3

HOROWHENUA A. AND P. SOCIEIY.

» Tlio general entries in connection with the above Association's ninth animal show to bo hold o)i Wednesday, 27th January, up to Llit" present are. very satisfactory, and if not better are at least quite up to tho previous years in number. If the quality 'of the exhibits is in keeping with the entries received in tlio sheep, cattle and pig classes, these. • will be well mirth a visit of inspection. Tlio entries in all competitions are __n ■: ..i\. ..j. i ..HI ~1.

equally as' salislaetory. and although (here lias no doubt been a number of gord horses drawn from-the district Tor the Trout, there are still .some good ones left for the show ring. Favoured by line woather putroiis can ilovk forward to an jiiilfi-eslinji day's outing. As the* time for accepting entries is extended until Snfunhv m'xi. I lie !)th inst.. anyone who has not. already done so. will bo in ample time if they .send their entries to the secretary, box '27, Levin, before tho above date.

Now York' k-legram.s state that the Jewish Emancipation C'onim'U■.- i* initiating plans witli a view to having representatives at the peace negotiations of belligerents in order to demand world-wide political emancipaiton. 11 is pointed out 'that hundreds of thoiisanils of Jews are lighting in different armies, and the war is demonstrating tlio jiietice «f the Jewish demand for the same civic privileges and human rights as .are accorded to Christians. The advance culminating in tin. , capture of Stoinbach anil Cornay lia.s carried the French about live miles eastward of Thann in Southern Alsace. Steinbach stands throe miles east and a little north of Thann, and Cwna.v is about lour and a- half miles due cast ol Thann and a little over eleven miles north-west of MulhiiiiseiK' The French success thus marks the most rapid advance which the Allies have made lor a long time past at any point on the wwtorn lino. The French forces in this quarter are- now some ten or twelve miles on the German side of the frontier. The possibilities ot the land around Levin i'or wheat-growing is shown .yy a crop covering a field of 10 acres at the Experimental Farm, Weraroa. After the commencement of tlio war, when land-owner's were requested by the Prime Minister to increase the acreage under wheat, Mr J. Drysdale, the farm manager, decided k> sow the held above-mentioned with wheat. The ground which was in pasture was ploughed in September, disced and harrowed and' the wheat, ptvrpie straw Tueoan, sown. No manure of any sort was used. The resulting crop is such as would surprise most people. The crop over the whole. Hold is quite even, well grown and well headed and without any portion more, backward than the rest. Jt is estimated to yield 50 bushels to the acre, roughly about one ton of flour. If all the landhol'T-pi-s hnd sown a low acres with wu ■.lit.

ers nan sown ;i low acres wirn w«.;.ig. ; t.ie flour shortage would soon bo remedied, and the profit Lo the grower considotaHe. Fifty busliols to the •»cve at •Iβ per bushel gives <i >"<•*< foturn <•( S'ls per aero and t'no !n:in i= occupied for only six months when if. may again be put clown in grass or some other crop.