FARMING NOTES

Wairarapa Age, 24 March 1920, Page 7

FARMING NOTES

Mr Grimmer, of Martinborough, has purchased Air John L-iuiow'a pioperty 01; acres 011 the Pori, tah-atua, uirough the agency of Mr C. H. Cox.

A co-operative cheese factory is ue.ng established by the returned solum is who have tauen up sect.ons on .ue lirutu block, L>annevirke, a loan ot' £SUUU having been authorised by the Repatriation Board ior this puruo su.

A few days ago a well-known grazier of Taurauga County ottered the t ,ietuct.on tnac the prices for dairy cows were going to soar. He stated t-iat the extension of dairying and me fact that a large number of calves were Killed last season must have a marked etfect on the market for dairy cattle.

"Trapped rabbits bought in any quantity," :s an advertisement now appearing in the papers. The high paces ruling for raoo.tskins in tne world's markets should do a great deal towards helping to abate the nu.sance, .•.hich bunny undoubtedly is to the iarm.ng community.

A Palmerston lady, who hails from Denmark, says the reason why there are so many failures in the qual-ty of home-made butter lies mainly in the fact that salting is done after instead of before churning. To have complete ass.milation it is necessary to salt the cream. This makes washing easy and thoroujgh, prevents 2i.reakineß3, improves keeping, flavour and quality, and is as simple as it is oifective.

The Government ha? completed the purchase of three areas of native land —two areas of 10,680 acres, and 2092 acres in the Wharepuhanga Block, and another of 2G09 acres in the

Kangitoto Tuhua Block, all in that park of the country popularly known as the King Country. The Wharepuhunga land is not far from the place ivhere the head works of the Arapuni hydro-electric scheme will be estab-

lished. All the land is open fern country. The next step towards releasing this land for settlement is to gazette it Crown land, and this will probably be done in the Gazette of .his week.

THE SUPREMACY OF FRANCE. One of the outstanding features at recent sales was undoubtedly the extraordinary activity on Continental account, France in particular leading the fray. The writer never saw so many French buyers at any previous series of sale, and new faces kept tuning up. It ia a marvel the amount of wool that France is absorbing, but there is general agreement that a lot 3 going to Germany, and one Belgian buyer frankly admitted that that was the Case, stating that however dear | .vool was in London it could be . sold at a profit to German and Austrian arms, and, therefore, they felt encouraged to go on purchasing. That .3 the position of things to-day. French combing merinos, say one and a half to two-inch staple, fetched extraordinary prices, and very ordinary Wools in the grease sold anywhere from 40d to" 45d; wools which in an ordinary time were not worth more than a shilling. Carbonising scoureds remained "in the clouds" to the finish;; in fact a man who visited Coleman'street for the first time since the finish of the war on. witnessing the prices paid, would experience a mild sensation.