FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 194, 25 November 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY

Approximately £IOO,OOO worth of wool from Gisbome and the East Coast, the first of the season's clip, will be landed in London in time for the January sales by the three steamers that have been loading in, the Bay during the past few days. The shipping of this quantity ol fleece should mean the circulation of from £50,000 to £OO,OOO in the way ol advances upon the clip. The initial consignments of frozen meat represent a value of about £40,000. Mr. D. Buick, MJ?., for Palmerston, has imported by the Ruapehu a couple of Lincoln Red cattle, a breed stated to possess all the advantages of the dual purpose animals, milk and beef. The new arrivals are at present in quarantine on Soames Island. ,

A Tasmanian, who experimented with rape aud kale for sheep production, says that while the kale fattened a larger number of sheep than the other fodder, the rape proved a quicker grower and fattencr. Tt left the soil in better condition, and was not found so exhausting as the kale. With its deep tap root, rape feeds largely on the subsoil, while kale is a surface feeder. At the same •time the latter is the bettor forage for dairy cows. A party of Southlanders home from a trip to Queensland speak in glowing terms of the prospects there for settlers. They spent most of their time in the . Toowomba district, and state that the price of good land is •reasonable, and that £IOOO will give a man a fair start—as good as £3OOO in New Zealand. One of the party, a local resident (says the Mataura Ensign), is looking for a purchaser for his interests with a view to : i-etuniing to Queensland and securing one of the good things that are offering! Mr. J. L. Henrys, son of Mr. J. E. Henrys, the well-known handicapper. is doing well in the Argentine Republic. He is with Mr. Julia Pueyrrdon on an estate of 00,000 acres, and has charge of the portion devoted to the fattening of early lambs and cattle. The estate runs 43,000 sheep and 15,000 head of cattle. In a letter to a friend Mr. Hcnrvs mentions incidentally that the horses he took from New Zealand brought over £IOO a. head, and the 75 sheep left over from the first sale from .-£3O to £35. Potato bneteriosis has been commrmicated to tomatoes grown in the ITcnllys district of Monmouthshire. It is believed that the disease has been imported from America, and so infectious and destructive is it that it is deemed advisable not merely to destroy the tainted potatoes, but to burn the soil in which they have been grown.