JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14343, 1 May 1912, Page 11

JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Notwithstanding the fact that tho reason is now well advanced, tho supplies of cream that continue to be eeut ito * ne Ashburton Co-operative Dairy ("factory are considered satisfactory, (says tbo Ashburton "Guardian")- Now that cold weather has «et in. it is safe, to aesujno that tho supply of cream next month will rapidly diminish. Remarkably good cheques have been paid to euppliers during the soa.von, and those who have gone, in for dairy ' farming in earnest are emphatic oh the point that they have no cause to : regret the t»tep they have taken.

' (hir Invercargill corresjKindeut ideographs: —Though Southland farmers availed themselves of every .suitable .opportunity to harvest their crops, a considerable number. mostly late powers, still remain out. Tho weather of last week and to-day, when heavy, cold rain fell, does not give i promise that tho oats now standing .5 out in the wtook can !«• stacked other '■■■■than in indifferent condition. Potatodigging has also been interfered with by the climatic conditions, tho ground being too wet for the operation, but there is Miflicicnt of th«» tubers on tho market to maintain prices at about tho level of the past fortnight. In only comparatively f^w , instances 'havo the turnips dono well, owing to the unfav- . ourablo reason, and the crops are late ■in consequence. Warm weather is rentiircd, and whenever these conditions obtain tho growth is remarkably quick, but the past week's experience has done no good to them.