THE RURAL WORLD.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 406, 21 October 1911, Page 7

THE RURAL WORLD.

A feature of a recent fat stock sale at Westport was tha yarding of a splendid line of forty hullocks from VVaibo. South VVestland. The cattle elicited j;0od competition, and wen: disposed of at the excellent average

of .Ci ~ 8s per he-ad. A fanner who was a director of one of the numerous co-operative coricerrs in Taranaki resigned his seat because tie was paid only for the director?-' meetings which he attended. He probably thought he should have been paid for the lot, whether he was present or not. The Commonwealth's butter shipments to the United Kingdom from July Ist to September 26th were 82,582 boxes, 33 compared with 135,7!0 boxes in the corresponding period of 1910. The falling-off was chieflv i:i New South Wales.

The protection of a well-built shed should be available at all time 3 for farm accessories. Implements, more especially those of delicate mechanism, are not improved by being allowed to remain out in the paddock or farmyards exposed to the influence of the weather.

Oid bag 3 may, in the opinions of some people, serve to act as suitable coverings for expensive agricultural implements. Farmers who adopt such inadequate make shifts are bad friends to themselves, although ."good feilows" in the eyes of the manufacturers.

On many dairy farms a few sheep could find profitable grazing in pastures too scant to afford sufficient sustenance for dairy cattle. In this capacity a few sheep could be kept without interfering with ths dairy business.

Southland papers give particulars of a very serious accident which occurred to a farmer's son. He and a younger brother were ploughing in a paddock. By some means he lost his hold of one of his plough lines, and in his endeavour to regain possssion of the line without stopping his horses he jumped on the plough, and slipped down, and the coulter cut a gash into the side of his knee, slicing off a piece of the joint bone. Ho was taken to the hospital. Mr R. J. Dagg, of Masterton, will be judge of the draught horses at the Hamilton show.

Reports to hand from all parts of the Masterton district give the average lambing return as 85 per cent.; many owners have only obtained about 70 per cent. The lambing is poorer than last year, states a Masterton correspondent.

The Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Show will be held at Palrnecston North on November Ist, 2nd and 3rd. The Kennel Club's champion dog show will also be held at the samp, time. Entries for live stock close, on October 13th, and for all other classes onOctober 6th.

It is contended by a New Zealand orchardist that the varieties of dessert apple known as Northern Spy, Carlton, arid Mayflower are immune to the attack of woolly aphis. As the result of the energies of the secretary and sub-committee of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, it is practically certain that twelve or more fanners will undertake experiments in subsoiling and fertilising, as requested by Mr Baylis. the Fields Instructor under the Department of Agriculture. A patch of 115 acres of hops on the Horst ranch, three miles south of Tehama, California, will yield £30,000 worth of hops this season, or more than £240 to the acre, estimating hops at 17Jd per lb. Picking began at the end of last month, and some of the pickers were making from £1 to £1 8s

day. Hawke's Bay is becoming more and more a dairying district, and at the forthcoming spring snow the sum of £l2 is offering as prize money in the butter-fat competition, the Heretaunga Dairy Company and its directors personally being the donors of this amount. Besides this one class, owners have also the privilege of entering their animals in other classes for cows in milk.