BUTTER-FAT YIELDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 68, 11 June 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)

BUTTER-FAT YIELDS

CAMBRIDGE RETURNS (From Our Own Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, To-day. The butter-fat yield in the Cambridge district for the month of April was 30 per cent, ahead of that for the corresponding month of 1926, and

it is confidently expected thr.t the May returns will show an even more substantial increase. This is iue to tie exceptionally favourable weather experienced in late autumn and early winter. Although mid-wir.ter is not far off, the pastures in this district are wonderfully green, anc! feed h:.s been so plentiful that cattle are :n great heart. Farmers are well provided with supplementary crops, hay, etc., and should be able to ti le over tlie winter months excellently. Rarely has the winter been faced under such favourable conditions. Undoubtedly another factor in tlie exceptionally good yield this season in the fact that more fertilisers have been used than ever before. The substantial reduction, recently made in the price of fertilisers, has enabled farmers to be more lavish in top-dressing with most beneficial results. Farmers, too, are becoming more’ and more impressed with the excellent results that accrue from judicious top-dress-ing.

NATIONAL DAIRY .SHOW

EXCURSION TICKETS GRANTED

(.Special to THE SUS .) PALMERSTON, Friday. In conjunction with Mr. J. Linklatet M.P., Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., despatched a telegram to the Railway Board asking for an extension of the excurw® fares for the National Dai .’y Show w stations on the Main Trunk. * ArNash has now received the following reply from the secretary to the boam“l am directed to inform you than after giving the matter thorough cob* sideration. the board has decided t extend the issue of excursion tie** for the National Dairy Show, wmc opens at Palmerston North next weeto include stations from Hamilton an south thereof.” , bv Advice has also been received . the member for Palmerston to effect that it is the intention of Prime Minister to attend trie show Thursday evening.

CHARGING AN ELEPHANT

MOTOR-CAR BADLY WORSTED

Two sisters motoring along the I North Road to London in the • j hours of the morning had an *o* ture more suited to the paths of ■ j jungle than to a prosaic English hig Their car was a sports model, the designer of which probably n , imagined that it would come into> ac 1 contact with big game. Yet tha what actually occurred. d “It was pitch dark and raining said one of the sisters, “when suaa -j ten yards in front of the bonnet 100 2 elephants 1 camel 1 spotted horse 1 zebra-donkey hybrid and 1 keeper a “The next moment there v. broadside crash into the elephan —temporary oblivion. oU r “When we recovered ourseive , f i heads were sticking through tn i of the car, the axle was broken elephants were frisking about jj S . ; the wreckage and venting the ! pleasure with their trunks. .j s _ Men in -charge of a lorry sor ** he i t er, tance away gave the sisters and later in the morning their a s ! who was in search of them, car alarmed to find the ruins of f by the roadside. „i<rhbour' I Inquiring at houses in the ntg 0 t hood, he received confused acc the accident, in which, insist elephants and the camei were upon as factors. _ ■fnidirg' - “I thought the people , r am •he said, “and in my anxl f. * ♦ with afraid I was rather impatien them—until I found my sister they confirmed the queer cause accident.”