LOCAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 20, 11 August 1894, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

It is intended to shut down the Southland Frozen Meat Co’s works at Wallace town and Mataura on the 31st inst. Two reasons are given for this course —the scarcity of fat sheep and the low prices ruling in London. In Victoria onions yield the grower £8 5s per ton as against from 45s to 50s for potatoes. -> The State cf New Hampshire pays a dollar per bushel to farmers fpr all grasshoppers that they destroy.; At no period .of the history has wool been so. much worn-• as an article of clothing as nowiV Women now wear woollens .iwhere : their mothers wore silk and linen.' In the last 30 years the Wool supply has trebled. The increased production has taken place in the Umted,.'States, Australia, and River Plate. '.Once abolish the tariff on wool, arid America, owing to her geographical position should (says an exchange).become the great woollen mart and exchange of the world ; and with the developments yet in sight of electrical motors worked by water power, the extension of the woollen industry of America cannot be gauged even by the most farseeing.