JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14072, 17 June 1911, Page 4

JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

At a meeting of the Otago A. and P. Society, it was decided to open tne Winter Show on Tuesday, August Ist. The Show will remain open for five days.

Mr Towler. of Scott road. Hawera, I has made a valuable addition to his herd by purchasing the Jersey bull "H.R.H." from his breeder Mr H. C. B. Watson of Tai Tapu. The bull secured first and reserve champion as a J yearling at Christchurch. |

Tho farmers whose lands in North '

Canterbury have been overrun with the grass grub, are now finding that tho very cold weather and the rain arc

relieving the soil of the pest. 611 eomo of the low land the surface which hae been -partly flooded is seen in many places' to be covered with the grubs, which have perished under the recent climatic conditions.

Mr Pyc, the principal of tho Dookie Agricultural College (Victoria), is now experimenting with several new and, as yet. unnamed varieties of wheat which ho has secured by cross-breeding different spocioe. Two or three of theso are reported to bo proving exceptionally good growers, and one in particular has, in the tests so far conducted with it, yielded such good results that it promises to surpass oven tho famous Federation species. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr Graham) states that ho understood that it was still too soon to prophesy with any certainty regarding tins new variety, though it had had a remarkable record at Dookie to date.

Our Wairarapa correspondent states that the Manawatu A. and P. Association hiis asked the 3lasterton Society to send delegates to a conference- of representatives from the Fcilding, Woodvillc, Levin, Pahiatua, Ihmnevirke, Hawko's Bay. Wanganjii, Hawera and Waipukurau Associations, to be held at l'alracrston North for the purpose of informally discussing a scheme of represoiitation for the several bodies mentioned upon the Manawatu A. and P. Association's Committee, tho idea being to formulate the constitution of a Metropolitan show. At the meeting of the local association on Saturday last.. Mr J. Strang (Gladstone) said tho idea was to hold a Royal Show at Palmerston North, tho latter place being practically the centro between Christchurch and Auckland. Members wore of opinion that if there was to be a Royal Show there was no reason why it should not bo held occasionally at Masterton.