FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 5 February 1915, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

■» j The Dannevirkc News states that chaff lias boon sold in.stack by a Manawatu farmer at £8 per ton, the purchaser doing his own carting. Many Wairarapa dairy farmers are receiving equivalent to I Oil per gallon for their milk, anil it is expected that Is per gallon will be received before long. "The present summer is the driest We have experienced for twelve years," remarked a Masterton farmer to a Daily Times reporter. "For many years past Wairarapa farmers have had to seek pasturage for their stock in other districts during summer, but never to the extent they have this year, for some twelve years." Owing to the high price of feed, poultrymen at Ohristchurch are. face to face ■with a serious difficulty. The Prime Minister has been approached by the president of the Christcliurch Egg Farmers' Association to remove the duty o(T maize or to purchase fowl feed on behalf of egg farmers. The Association owns collectively from 20,000 to .10.000 fowls, and something must be done sliortly or many producers will have to close down. In an interesting letter t» a Palmerslon North poultry importer, a leading English firm of exporters of pedigree i poultry writes that the war has had a ' J marked effect on the English egg and I poultry market. At the time of writing, ordinary laying pullets, without an elaborate pedigree, were bringing lis each, whilst eggs were selling at 3s per dozen. The leading English poultry journals are advising clients to retain their stock of poultry, as eggs are expected to increase in price. Though it is not expected that the average yield of wheat for South Canterbury will be very high this year, there are some promising crops in the Tcmuka and Winchester districts (says the Tiniarn Herald.) There are. paddocks of wheat on the Factory road, Teimika, which are expected to thresh over 50 bushels to the acre, and. a 'Winchester grain grower told a Herald correspondent that lie too had a crop which promised a yield of 00 bushels to the acre. The strong winds on Monday did a great deal of damage, and one farmer in the Waitohi district estimated his loss at over five bushels to the | acre.