Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4456, 31 August 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

orts are shortly to be made to either W Sheepowners* Union for jlrth Island or else a union for

Krbitration Court district The rebury Sheapowners Industrial h: of. Employers has been in ince for seven years past, and is dered to hate done good ■work/ »maintaining friendly relations employers. The new unions

proposed are to be on the lines I® Canterbury Union, and it is lately contemplated to form a ration of all the sheepwners* be of New Zealand, if?'*''* s

rhat is known as “ blister,” a dis*i due to eel-worms; is very preQt in Victorian potatoes this year, is adding to the troubles of rers. Mr M*Alpine, ? Victorian inment pathologist, states that ravages caused by the potato diss are on the increase. The trouble ■ serious that Ocean-going steamers tot be provided with a satisfactory )Iyv Other States are also taking ito prevent the losses caused by sees in potatoes, and there is a iihood of united action being taken South Australia, Tasmania and