AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9106, 4 June 1908, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

grass-seed advanced by the ''Government to burnt-out settlers in theiForty-mile Bush is reported to be • shewing up well. The Minister for Agriculture has "decided to send a fruit inspector to the Cook Islands, to investigate the position of the Group in regard to the fruit-fly. A circular has been issued by the president of the Canterbury Sheepownera' Industrial Union, having for its object the closer amalgamation of sheep owners. The Association intends joining hands with the Farmers' Union to contest the demands of the Trades Unions. No fewer than 115 varieties of potatoes were experimented with at the Weraroa experimental station last yea*', and it is expected that the -same number of experiments will be mads this sea Eon. Red clover lias been planted over ! the entire area of the Weraroa stations this year. Such an experiment ' will doubtless prove of considerable value. The outlook for the winter in the INelson district is said to be excellent. What may bo regarded as a record weight or a bushel of wheat comes from the farm of Mr Ruben Smith, Eulah Creek. The variety is Bobs, and the bushel turned the scale at 71ibi at tho Inverell Show recently, •c&mry beating fourteen competitors. A correspondent of the Patea "Press," writing from Upper Waitotara, says he hears that some plucky .settlers have taken up some new •country about twelve miles further back from Mr Van Ash's place, making a distance of fifty miles.frcm Waitotara. One of them took his wife and children back there last week. It is pioneering indeed to have to ride six miles along a goat track and then have to walk the other six through the bush.