AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 21

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.

Classes for rool-classing were started ' S? I !^*?^ at Wav erley and Patea, in the | Worth bland, 25 students having enrolled 1 for the former and 12 for Patea. 'Tie ohief cause of blight in potatoes," eatd Mr A. B. Wood to a Wairacapa Daily Times reporter, "is inferior cultivation and oanly rotated crops." Farmers ought to pay a- little more attention to the rotation of crops and the rotation of manures, ofi-ny failures arising from a lack of knowledge in this respect. •The New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union turned out 568 tone of butter and 91 tons of •cheese last year. During the year £7411 wrai elimniated from the borrowed capital, 2311,685 was written off for depreciation, £2513 carried forward, and a dividend of i £ 6er cent. paid. j Regarding the ajajreaehieg w.opl season, '

I there is every reason to believe (says the j Sydney Mail) that a strong demand is about I to be experienced on American account, j which should lead to extreme prices .for all I the best wools. f The West Australia** Government is giv- '- ing a subsidy to agricultural sooieties of 10s j for every £1 of prize-money, on the condition that the societies give prizes for field I work. (The Dairy Commissioner is establishing a milk-tesnng scheme in the Carterton district on model lines for the purpose of testing the individual covys in dairy herds. This is to provide an cbject-lessoti, with a '■ view to the general extension of the j method by the means of co-operative testing associations. Its cost to the depart- : ment will be about £100 for the year. In the oourse of conversation the othor , day the Hampden correspondent of the \ Palmerston Times was informed by a local farmer that his milk cheque for the year amounted to £284 15s 6d This amount ' was produced by 24 cows, and did not . include moneys received for the* sale of ] pigs which were fattened on the < skimmed milk.