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RURAL JOTTINGS.

Get rid of the scrub boar and get a good one in his place. At least once a year poultry-keepers should thoroughly clean all houses inside and out.

The phenomenal growth of grass in Waipukurau district during the past week w r as three inches. Over 100,000 cows will be tested under* the group system in the Auckland province this season. Mr. S. Pitt has disposed of hiAfann at Cardiff, Taranaki, to a buyer who has come all the way from County Antrim, Ireland. The feeding, housing and care generally of the hens will determine the number and value of the eggs by which they will repay you. The Marton Dairy Company has sold its output of- cheese up to the end of October for S£d, whereby they will be able to pay Is fid per lb. for butterfat to suppliers. “The cry to-day should be back to the land. The old order, 60 per cent, in the towns has now been reversed," eaid Mr. Tj Parker, Liberal candidate for Raglan. Judging by the large number of week-old calves that have changed hands in South Auckland recently the marked calf has definitely come into its own.

There are 59 sampling and testing officers employed by the New Zealand Co-operative Herd-testing Associat-on this year, as well as an office staff of 13.

A revival of buying by the American trade at coming wool sales is predicted. American stocks being low and consumption increasing. The buy-

ers require long staple crossbred mostly of the hogget class. A co-operator is a man who works not only for his own prosperity aud his own well-being, but for the advancement of the whole industry or the whole group of which he is a part. Mr. Bellringer, M.P., referring to cop-dressing stated that a dairy factory's turnover of £6OOO a year had now been increased to £60,000, due solely to top-dressing and improved farming methods. "Farmers say'-that the Government

is doing nothing to assist them, yet the freight on a 1201 b pig has been reduced by 9s during the past year," said Mr. D. J. Ross at the meeting of the Farmers' Union. Jersey breeders recognise the honour paid to New Zealand by the appointment 'of Mr. E. Griffiths, of New Plymouth, to act as judge of the Jersey classes at the'Melbourne Royal Show this month. In connection with the freezing works' operations for the new season it is stated that so far as it is known at present the works in Poverty Bay will open at about the usual time, early in December. The Wairarapa Age understands that 9d is likely to be’offered for the first drafts of fat lambs this season. It is anticipated the, season will be an early one and that the demand for the export trade will be strong, owing to the poor season being experienced in Australia. Mr. MacMillan, referring to land-sick Ngarima in the Waikato, stated that a farmer lost every calf from 40 eowa one season. Thanks to top-dressing his losses were reduced to 50 per cent the following season. Top-dressing he considered the'salvation of that portion of the Waikato. One of the applicants for the position of ploughman on a North Otago farm sent his application in an envelope, on the back of which were certain Biblical excerpts, one of which was a warning to sinners in general. He stated that he would accept the job on condition that he was not required to do anv. work on Sundays. He was not engaged. Well-bred sheep dogs are in Tcquest at limaru at the present time, the supply having been suffered through the epidemic which worked so much havoc, among the dogs about a year ago. Dog-s of the right type, suited* to shepherds requirements are fetching from £lO to 30. Occasionally as high as £SO is paid for a good dog. Seventeen pounds was refused for one in Timaru on Wednesday.

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Shannon News, 7 October 1927, Page 4

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RURAL JOTTINGS. Shannon News, 7 October 1927, Page 4

RURAL JOTTINGS. Shannon News, 7 October 1927, Page 4

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