FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1915, Page 3

FARM AND DAIRY.

Farmers along the coast will have thu opportunity of availing themselves of the services of a weil-bred Clydesdale stallion this season, Mr. D. Grecnway having purchased from Mr J. S. Oughton, the well-known Okaiawa breeder, a stallion by the well-known sire Royal Garthland. Glen Garthland is a com-paotly-built hay, showing plenty of bone and quality, and should be an ideal sire for farmers. He will probably run on Mr. Greenway's homestead at Okato. Mr. S. Turner, ort behalf of Messrs J. and J. Lonsdale and Co., Ltd., London, lias secured cheese on open consignment to the amount Of about 7000 tons. Rome of the largest outputs are: Kaupokonui 2600 tons, "Kaponga. 1200 tons, Mangatoki 1200 tons, Riverdale 800 tons, and Awatuna 700 tons. Up till recently very favorable reports were received about the .wheat cro'p in Canada which is really harvested this t .month. From letters received in Welftogton by the last mail it would appear thaJ the prospects are not so good as anticipated. Albert County is a famous \v4ieat area in the north-west of Canada, and there the promise is a poor one. Writing from Calgary on Juily 30 one correspondent says: "Since we wrote i you early in June our crop has had a serious sct-tack, and it now tooks as though the harvest would not be as satisfactory as wag then anticipated. We .hatse been experiencing continuous rains, nul the crop is now at least three weeks late, and the probabilities of the bulk of the same maturing before frost is ratlner doubtful. In view of this, and the /act that the crop conditions "throughout the United States are very unsa'ti-sfactory we are inclined to believe that higher prices for milling wheat are to be anticipated." At least one flour merchant in Wellington .has made arrangements for the importation of Canadian flour for the next three months.

Sheep nre frradually ousting the cows in tlie district, several farms oil which at this time of the yp.ir young calves,could usually be seen in Jarge numlfer* are now stocked with ewes aiui laml>s, the farmers finding that the latter do not require such cilosc attention &■ cows.