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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 September 1913, Page 4

Mr A Macpherson, the Supervisor of Pieid Experiments for the South Island has charge of the Agriculture Department's exhibit to be made at the Auckland Exhition, and at present be is exceedingly busy in preparing it. The exhibit will include no fewer than 150 experimental plots, all set out in the Exhibition gouuds, and in the interior display will be varieties of grasses and clovers totalling 199 different kinds, and at least 150 varieties of classified weeds.

A settler in the Eketaliuna district possesses a very profitable pet ewe, says tho Exprss. For the past three seasons she nas give birT.h. to twins, and again this year two lambs "are running by her side. The lambs are always bespoken by a local butcher, who pays up to los each for thorn. Not only does the owe rear her own pro" geny, but every season she fostermothers two other lambs, which also iind thoir way to the butcher,s shop. Apart from the lamb? she rears, the owe clips from 101b to 121b of wool every season.

Mr llaynes, a Buenos Ayres newspaper proprietor who is now in NewZealand, says there is a profitable opening in his country for New Zealand fruit. Fruit is very scarce in Buenos Ayres, and no attempt is made to*go in for systematic and scientific fruil culture. A good apple costs at any time from 6d to Is, and the importation of fruit on a large scale is quite neoessarv. The is a gr>od deal of misapprehension concerning Buenos Ayres. Mr Haynes says. Few people outside seem to realise that it has a population of a milliou and a-haU', ami is a city of luxury. Living is very dear, but there is no apparent poverty or distress. At the present time eleven millions of money ar§ being laid out in avenues and city amenties generally.

An excellent return was received last season (snys the Stratford Post) by Mr Gr. Townsend, Lowgarth, from his herd of thirty-eight grade Jersey cows eight of the ammals being two-year-old heifers. His herd averaged 27010 (f butter fat pir head for the season. This result waa obtained exclusive if the milk used for feeding calves and for tlie use of tho house ; and the calves were fed for a, month on new milk.