JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14314, 27 March 1912, Page 10

JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

A very prime lino of fat lambs was sold at St. Andrews on Friday last at -Os.per head— : tho.top price of tho season. Tho lambs came from the farm of ilrj. Craigie, M.P., at Kingsdown.

The crops in the Totara district are threshing out exceptionally well (says yesterday's "North Otago Times"). One of the • oldest residents, who moves about the country frequently, puts down tho averago yield at.4S bushels of wheat and 70 of oats. The Totara district, with reasonably good seasons, is quite capable of producing heavy crops, and it would not bo surprising if our informant's estimate is hased on a modest calculation.

Record entries have been received for tho Tcmuka and Geraldino Agricultural and Pastoral' Association's Show, which takes place in tho Winchester Domain to-morrow., and given fino weather the exhibition is likely to be a big success. A feature in connection with the military oveute will be a parade of close on 300 of the Bth (South Canterbury) Mounted Regiment, now in camp at Orari, and it is anticipated that many of these will compote in the military contests.

Heavy rain set iv at Ashburton shortly after noon yesterday, and continued till lato in the evening. Fortunately, all tho cereal crops, except in, a few isolated cases, are now safely in stack. Thero aro to bo seen on the road to the Orari camp on Mr Guy McDonald's estate, tho produce of a remarkably good crop of Bed Chaff ■wheat, grown,in two paddocks of a total area of a little less than 100 acres. There aro thirty-two seven-yard stacks, and tho yield is expected to average'at'the rato of fifty bushels per aoro. Across "the road, and somo distance higher up on the same property, aro to bo seen thirty-six sevenyard stacks of tho same variety of wheat, and -which - were harvested off nn area of 100 acres. The wheat was fed off pretty close to th«» ground with sheep late in the spring, and it afterwards came way rapidly and grow very vigorously. As a standing crop it was a pretty sight. Tho wheat was splendidly treated, and remarkably even, all over tho paddocks. In the same paddocks just now thero is a great growth of feed for stock. Nearby, and just opposite tho entrance to tho site of the Mounted Rifles' camp, there is an unusually heavy crop of mangolds,' while most of the grass paddocks are beautifully green with an unusual abundance of feed/for this timo of the year.