Generalities.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 257, 11 October 1928, Page 8

Generalities.

Good class dairy heifers are in keen demand throughout the Waikato at present, and a well-known district dairyman expressed the opinion this, week that before the season is far advanced there will be a ready sale for heifers brought from Taranaki and Manawatu, provided that they are of good quality. He added that the “ bobby ” calf trade has caused many hundreds of heifer calves, that would normally be kept for renewing herds, to be slaughtered. Those that were kept last year will not be anything like sufficient to meet the demand, consequently dairy sorts must be brought from other districts. As for the beef market, prices, must firm for very few steers from dairy cows grazed within a ten miles radius of the centres are being kept. It is only in the further districts that steers are reared. Farmers bringing in new country, especially that where second growth is much in evidence, need store stock to trdmple or eat the young shoots. The shortage of store cattle must result in prices rising. An immense “ Captain Cook ” pig which had been killing large numbers of young lambs on a farm in the Upper Wanganui river district was shot recently. The beast measured sft from the snout to the base of the tail.

A cow that ran amok while being driven along a Hawke’s Bay road the other evening caused consternation to motorists who were in the vicinity at the time. ’ After chasing the drover and others who tried to subdue it, it turned its attention to the cars as they came along and charged each one in turn. Some of them had the head-lights smashed, and Mr. Adamson’s bakery van was so damaged that it had to be abandoned and later . towed back to Ormondville. The cow eventually got down into a stream, afterwards escaping into a farmer’s property, where it was left to recover from its “ brain-storm.”