KAIPARORO.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 29 November 1910, Page 5

KAIPARORO.

Shearing operations are now in full swing here, and given fair weather, much of the shearing in the -district will be completed before Christmas. In last month's Journal of Agriculture, results were recorded of experiments carried out on one of the Government experimental farms in connection with the shearing of lambs. Two flocks, each containing twenty lambs, wore set aside; one flock was shorn, and the other -was left unshorn. A comparison of the profits from each flock was made at the end of two years, and results showed that the ilock left unshorn had returned the greater profit. A practical farmer of this district says that he has found from experience that in bush country, unless the climate is a dry one, it pays to shear lambs. If left unshorn, the long wool hampers their movements during the summer months, and so prevents them from thriving. In the winter they are always wet, and when the following shearing season comes round they shear badly, as most of the wool has, by then, been torn off on logs, etc. Quail, which are very plentiful here, are not regarded with much favour by farmers. They are very partial to grass seed, which they pick up in large quantities, and lately they have constituted themselves a nuisance by turning their attention to garden seeds. A good downpour of rain has fallen during the last two days, and it has considerably freshened up the pastures. The shade temperature recorded twice during the weok was 81 degrees, about the highest that is ever reached here. A rather painful accident happened to Mr Alex. Falkner, while cycling I into Eketahuna last Wednesday i morning. A young heifer, Avhich | was grazing on a bank by the road- / side became frightened, jumped down the bank, and knocked him off his machine. He fell on his elbow, and was unfortunate enough to misplace a ligament, and strain his arm badly. He managed, however, to proceed on his journey, to Eketahuna,' where his injuries were attended to by Dr Chadwick. ,