KING COUNTRY FARMING

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 24

KING COUNTRY FARMING

EXPERIMENTAL WORK Red Polled cattle have proved their worth in the King Country districts, and breeders have usually secured good prices for the better class stock. Mr. D. F. McLeod, of Opatu, Kaitieke County, recently offered two yearlings for sale at Palmerston North, and secured 40 guineas and 325 guineas for the animals respectively. The Oliura County Council is moving with the object of having its ranker appointed an inspector of noxi*ous weeds, with power to take action against offenders. The council has also resolved to ask the Agricultural Department if it will take steps to force the mortgagees of unoccupied sections in the county to have all blackberry cut regularly. During the past season experimental plots have been dealt with in various parts of the Matiere district, as well as other parts of the Ohura county, and Mr. J. E. F. Jenks, of the Agricultural Department, under whose direction the work is proceeding, has just completed a tour of most of the plots. Speaking in regard to the results obtained, Mr. Jenks stated that the work was not yet sufficiently advanced for him to issue a definite report, but he had gathered very useful information on the requirements of the district. He was justified in saying that the results obtained were very satisfactory, and he was confident that, when the right system of working and manuring the sections was arrived at, a vast improvement in the production of the district would result.

The travelling farm school is at present in the King Country, and will make the following ‘tinerary: Taumarunui, Jane 23 and 24; Ohura, June 23 and 24; Owhango, June 24 and 25; Kaitieke, June 24 and 25. Various lecturers under the auspices of the fields division of the Department of Agriculture will address and advise the farmers in each locality in regard to problems affecting the industry, and the district m particular, * <