FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 30 January 1915, Page 8

FARM AND DAIRY.

Mr Charles Lee, of Itntana, who is an expert in wheat growing, lias some 00 acres sown in. that seed, and it is reckoned by experts, who have visited the. farm, that a yield of fully ,">0 bushels to tho acre ca fl bu safely anticipated. The Government ha > arranged with the Maoris concerned to exchange tho l'ohokuni block at Te Kniti, containing i 30,48ti acres, for the Wairanipa Lake. I The Danncvirkc News states that ehall has been sold in the stack by a j Maharahara farmer at ,tS per ton, "tho • purchaser doing his own carting. A shortage' of farm labor is still bc--1 ing experienced in the Wellington and I Hawke's Day districts. Both men and boys are. wanted. j Some idea of the huge dimensions ' that the wool-growing industry is as- | suming in Central Otago may be gather- , ed from th,. fact that 2300* bales have this season already left tho Clyde railway station. It is twenty-seven years sinco a drought like the present one wafe experienced in the Mastcrton district. In 1887, the settlers had to transfer their stock to the Forty Mile Bush, to save them from starvation. | 1 Thi shortage of shipping is likely to cause a cessation of operations at somo j of the freezing works in the Wellington Province at an early date. So far as the Wairarapa is concerned most of tho settlers have already got away their fat stock, so that they will not suffer material loss.

Over 1000 head of cattle hare been transferred from one corner of the Mastcrton district to the Forty Mile Bush, on •account of the drought. Arrangements are being made for the transfi.Tcrrcc of "further large drafts.

A Cl't-rtsc-v district, farmer was. on Monday. tcnd-v,.,l 3.( 3d per bushel for nil oiiti .'frown on his farm, comprising l 120 acres of Cartons and (if) acres of Algerians. The. offer was refused, the grower preferring to wait a little while vet.

Most o! the. settlers in the Pahiatua district are doing well with their dairy herds this summer, but there is one exception at : Mangatainoka. A dairy farmer belonging to that settlement, who was a judgment debtor in a ease at the court recently, stated that his herd of fourteen cows only returned £8 a month from the factory. The breed of the cows was not stated. The Magistrate, wbo has a knowledge of farming, expressed surprise at this startling return, and said it was a very poor one. It should be at least double that amount. He thought that even if there had been a. shortage of winter feed, as asserted by the debtor, the cows could liavo pulled up in the spring.— Herald.