JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12970, 25 November 1907, Page 9

JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Friday's Feilding "Star" eaya:—Mr D. P. Buchanan, of Btraconsfield, Feildiag, the well-known Roraney breeder, whoe© rams have been in eudh prominence at the Jfanawatu and other A. and P. Shows, roiontJy received his final roturue through the New Zealand Loan md Mercanitilo Agency Company, Ltd., regarding the sate of his las* season's wool clip,, wihich was diiposod of in tho London market. The nricos obtained for the fierce wool at tlio September sal© (Is a«d la Id par lb) is, ho bolievee, higher than tJmt 6ocur«l by *ny other wool-grower iai the district for this particular typo of wool, end lie is naturally very ploascd with iiis returns. Thceo prices wx.ro also tlie highest obtained at tho series of sales just dosed,, if not the for tho year for this class of wool. The export of butter to Englaaid amd Soutih Africa from this end of Hie Dominion has suffered vory oonsideraWy as a result of tho rocont drought (eaye Saturday's "Otago Daily Times"). A wMe back butitcr export with tihe Tajeri and Peninsula Compaq was autto out of the question. But refreshing rains and increased fodder supplias have toad their beneficial effect. The compainy forwarded to London by the Rimuteka, which sailed from WeHington on Thursday, 1000 boxes of butter. Prices in London a* tho present time are vory and tie company is unfortunate m not being an a position to pteoe larger quantities an thet and tho South African markets. Regular ccnsigamenitsj will, however, bo forwarded to London <<w& South Africa from thus onwards, and en eppreciiaWe increase in the quantity shipped may be Jookod for each time. 3>aily drenohings are not looked for (wntea our-North Canterbury correepondont), but one day's steady rein would be a boon and a blessing" to the farm crops. Aβ s natural result of dry weather, the grain crops are stationary in the growth of the atraw, and some are prematurely oominsf into ear. On the light soils oate are in full corn and wheat ears are forming. The meadows and grain field* have a verdant character so far, but a week or fourteen days of the continued dry weather wilJ bring about a wilted and withered aepeot, so far as the Ashley County is concerned. Garden* and orchards require rain for both, vogetables and small and large fruit*,