FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 138, 20 September 1910, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY

Sixty-one draught horses were shipped from Wellington to Australia last week. The draught colt Royal Stewart, which 'Mr. John Boag, of Middle Rigig - (Canterbury) ,■ sold at, the late Sydney exhibition, took first and champion prize at the Forbes A. and P. Exhibition (New South Wales), beating the stallion that 1 took champion honors at the former Melbourne, shows. There is a possibility that in the near future wool packs will be made from a marine fibre which a company has been formed to exploit. The fibre is obtained at Port Broughton, South Australia, and is said to be specially suitable for wool packs.' It will take any dye readily, whether vegetable or aniline, and if any stray threads get into the wool no harm will be done, as the fibre will not be noticeable in the finished article. It is slai-fl that the fibre weaves equally well with wool. > A Taieri farmer has made £2OOO off ! potatoes this season. He had a splendid I return per acre, and, inflated prices did i the rest. The result is that a much ■ larger area is being, planted with potatoes at Taieri than in former years, and the chances are that there will be an over supply next year. Cropping is becoming more.or less a. 'tumble; woolgrowing and dairying art surer propositions these davs. A former resident of Oistchurch, ' writing from P-rth, West-Australia, says there should bo about ,900,000 acres, under wheat this year. The average yield for thirteen years i". over 11 bushels per acre, against New South Wales 9, Victoria 8, and South Australia 7 bushels per acre. Land: that will grow 15 bushels per acre at a cost of 20s to 25s per acre can ibe selected at 15s to' 20s per acre, payable over twenty years, and the Agricultural Bank advances up to £7so—on improvements—at 5 per cent. There are five months of summer, with little rain, and three months heavy rain, but the sun comes out after each shower,. enabling one to dodge the rain.