FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 179, 8 November 1910, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY

The growth of field daisies in the Forty-mile Bush and in some parts of the Wairarapa is more prolific this year than it has been for years past. In some cases the fieius are literally covered with a mantle of white. The Waikato Arjus says that farmers and dairymen in the Cambridge district are taking great interest in the testing of their herds, and when the day arrives for the inspector to be at their respective places they are seen scurrying off home and no amount of business will prevent them from going. Rain is Ikhllv needed in the Flaxbourne district, for grass and forage crops and also the grain crops, some of which are out in ear, although very short. Any land which had been prepared early for rape is holding the moisture well, but any recently ploughed is very dry. According to the Hawera Star a proposal is afoot in that district to start a wool-classing depot at Pa tea, at which nil farmers who choose to do so may have their wool classed. Mr. McGregor, the expert on the staff of the Wanganm Education Board, is making arrangement-, and if the scheme is carried out he will do the work of classing. The cost to each farmer will be proportioned to the amount of the clip. The meat market still shows no improvement (says the Otago Daily Times), and the Burnside sale last week was. if anvtl-ing, a little dearer than on the previous Wednesday. Beef was selling at from 35s to 40s' per lAfllbs, and the highest price per head realised for cattle was €l7 10s. The yarding was again very limited, only about 120 head comin? forward. Several of the local butIchers obtained their supplies from Canterbury, and if that had not been done prices on Wednesday, with the short supplies ;'fivilable_. might have been even higher than they were. Fat cows, for killing, realised'£l3, £l3 .">s, and £l4 ss. There was little alteration in respect of the sheep offering as compared with the previous week, but prices were, if anything, a shade firmer, and the quality not as good.