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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 June 1913, Page 4

The report of Mr J. Jones, Auctioneer, Auckland, shows that poultry made 3s 9d to 4s 9d, hens 2s to 2s 11: pigs 5s to lis 9d. Southern potatoes (table) £6 to £6,55; local £4 5s tc £4 10s ; Gamekoeper Southern seed £8; Onions L 8 10s to L 9 10s; Kutuuras 8s 6d to lis 9d • Pumpkins £o to 6s, Swedes £2 to £2 ss. Pairy Produce—Butter, bulk, lid to Is. Presh Eggs is lOd to 2s. Hams, factory, lid to I lid ; sides lid to 11 Ad ; sides lid to ll'd. Choice dessert apples 7s to 8s; good 6s to 0s 9d. Cookers 65 3d to 8s 4d. Writing to the Egmont Star a farmer says : I read with great interest the good results of buttersfat returns producing 190lb» per acre of Messrs A, and J, O'DonnelPs herd at Inaha, which is a great credit to them, and I might also say to their milkers. I have a herd which I will leave other people to judge from the return stated below, off 67 acr^s. My predecessor's return of butter-fat for seven months was 8,002 lbs, and my return for butter fat for the remainder of the season 1912, was 3097 making the ' total for tho season 11,599 11)8, from 43 cows, which averaged £16 8s 6d per cow for milk alone. But I may sny this season I shall do better than 1901 b per acre. For the fdght months' return I have already got over 170 lbs per ncie, and I reared 47 calves on this section, which had new milk foil 17 days. T am a great believer in testing, ns it costs no move to keep a good cow, than to keep what I call a " robber," and if a good many others did this they would be pounds in pocket at the end of the season. A recent visitor to theTauranga ex< perimenral farm wrote to the NewZealand Herald :—" Some very interestingl work is being* carried on, particularly in showing that lucerne can he successfully established on the Tauranga soils, which contain a great deal of pumice. A plot of lucerne, about an acre in area, was divided into three parts, one part getting lime at the rate of 20cwt., to tne acre, the next part 12 cwt., and the next 7 cwt. The cuttings of lucerne, four in the season, showed a yield fully twiae as much from the 20cwt. limed plot as from the 7cwt. plot. jSome monster mangolds have been grown in past years at the Tanranga experimental farm. The heaviest weighed 84lb„ the next being- 721b., while quite a large number of 60-pounders have oeen grown.