SOUTH CANTERBURY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 August 1913, Page 5

SOUTH CANTERBURY.

..•■• ;" ,■;.' ' CROPS. '' ■ v .. "■■ j (By Tdeowph—Press lAwciati™-) i , TIMARU, Last Night. A committee of the Farmers' Union held a conference with the Agricultural and Pastoral ssociation'committee ip. regard to shearing' classes. ■Some- discussion took pjace- in regard to the merits of feUiSe. Jandi ma-, chine shearing. It was unanimously decide 4' that a blade the !■ jnore' ljec^s^y^' : were becoming ■ scarcer every year,-* and it was cbrisidei > edthat--'an" : efficient blade shearer could en sjly 'pick up njachine work, but not vice,yeijs.a., A joint committee was" seV ;up ■< to make x inquiries as possibility of-establishing a clasg. A deputation from the South Canterbury Hunt asked the Agricultural; 'and, Pastoral Society's committee for a/donation to its funds, on the grounds that the hunt the Association to achieve* one of its objects, viz., improving of the breed of, light, horses, and' serves . a valuable national end by helping to ensure the breeding of horses • suitable for army remounts. It was stated that tile Canterbury Jockey Club gives the Hunt £SO, and the ; South Canterbury Jockey Club £2O. The committee decided to vote £lO, Farmers- say .that.■■■the; winter has boon the Best for many years for both stock and the sowing of winter grain. The ground lias always been in good working order. ~ Win-, ter. wheats looking exceptionally well. A rough estimate indicatesthat, about the same area; : > v ilf vibw'n as. List year. ; .U:',' .'■.. '* -' " : - "*'"■ ■