GENERAL ITEMS.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 8, 12 May 1911, Page 4

GENERAL ITEMS.

Forty-two draught horses were shipped from Auckland to Suva in March. The next Wanganui show is to be held on November 15 and 16. A large quantity of Algerian oats have been sown in the Masterton district this season (says the "Daily Times"). The crops that are already above the ground are stated to be doing exceptionally well. The farmers of Tararua having been more fortunate during the past dry season in having many showers which did not fall on the lowlands have an abundance of winter feed (says a correspondent of the Manawatu "Standard"). Writing of cropping, the correspondent proceeds : "Mr S. Blake has lately dug a crop of potatoes, which is a good record for the district. From a small plot of ground 14ft. by lift, he bagged 200 lb. of potatoes, and as this works out at a little over 25 tons to the acre it certainly is a good advertisement for the range. Messrs. Hall Brothers also cultivated some of their land at Tararua, and in spite of the long dry season produced a crop of rape over three feet in height, which fattened at the rate of fifty lambs to the acre." A visit was recently made by Mr C. J. Reakes, Chief Veterinarian, to the co-operative pigraising concern at Taratahi, with a view to ascertaining how the pigs thrive on whey as compared with other foods (says the "Daily Times"). . On Friday last a total of IS trucks of chaff was received by Messrs Laery and Co., Ltd., from the Wairarapa. The chaff aggregated 2100 sacks, and the quantity must represent one of the largest railages effected to Wellington from the district in question. Mr. E. H. Buckeridge, of Carterton, who founded his Wairarapa Holstein herd from Mr. John Grigg's famous stud, and who later imported several purebred black cattle from New South Wales, is meeting with a good deal of success as a breeder and there is now a very fair demand amongst dairy-farmers for his stock. The other day, Mr. Buckeridge sold a bull to Mr. A. Tocker, of Featherston, for fifty guineas, and a heifer to Mr. W. Bayliss, of Park vale, for forty guineas. These stock were bred

from Mr. Grigg's Holland cattle. Last season the mother of the heifer gave a milk supply of 1000 gallons, and, at the present time, is giving a daily milk supply of seventy pounds.

Foot and mouth disease in Holland is likely to interfere seriously with the export of Hol-stein-Friesian cattle from that country. Some time ago, Mr. E. H. Buckeridge, the well-known Wairarapa Holstien breeder decided to import five heifers in calf, and a bull from Holland, but on Saturday he was informed by the Government Stock Department that the animals would not be allowed to land here, unless, they fulfilled the quarantine regulations in England, whence it was intended to tranship them to New Zealand. The outbreak of the disease, however, prevents their importation into England.