Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43365, 29 August 1908, Page 4

Farm Notes.

It is authoritatively stated,, says a contemporary, that one person in the Doini- ion who received .grass seed to the value of £.IBO from the Government to re-sow his land, has property .valued at £30,000. ..

The Fruitgrowers’ Union of New South Wales advocates-the purchase by the Government of an orchard for demonstrating the best meats of coping with fruit pests. A bullock sold at the Addington saleyards last week, weighed, when killed and dressed, 13931 b. Five Shropshire wethers weighed 1571 b., 1611 b., 1571 b., 1551 b. and 1321 b. respectively.

It is stated that the demand fur early seed potatoes in the' Maiiawatu district this season is considerably keener than was the case last year, and if the fine weather continues seedsmen anticipate a large demand for the main crops. '

There were a large number of

■*'- • butter buyers in the Hawera district V _ lagt week, endeavouring to do business in the factories for the coming season’s output. They have, how-4-^'-ever, been unsuccessful, generally ’ ;: speaking, factories not being anxious fiy to do business for the present.

A Mastorton sporfsnan, who spen a day or two aft<.r rabbits in. the Kahuna and surrounding districts, states ' that there are- dead cattle lying about in all direction?—starved to. death. The utter absence of feed has meant theloss of cattle worth hundreds of pounds to farmers on the Upland country. '* '

The ideal farmers’ weather being experienced ,itf the Wairarapa is brightening the face of ,nature very considerably , and. young lambs are meeting with a, literally l ‘warm v welcome as. the days are most humid ; in fact almost summer-like in the best hours. On the East Coast, too the pastures' are maintaining a verdancy quite foreign to the customary mid-winter months.