THE AUSTRALIAN NUT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 13 August 1932, Page 6

THE AUSTRALIAN NUT.

GREAT COMMERCIAL

POSSIBILITIES

A form of additional. production which offers what are regarded as wouderfui possibilities, writes a representative of the "Sydney .Morning Herald" investigating the possibilities of the rich North Coast, is that of the Australian nut, the product of an Australian native shade tree, which offers dairy-farmers, na a side-line, commercial 'as well as other advantages. Research in furtherance of the nggrespivo exploitation of this form of production is now occupying the experimental farm near Lismore. The Australian nut is known more popularly as "the bush nut, but because of its commercial possibilities, a strong effort is being, made to discourage the use of the latter term and to make it widely known on the market as the Australian nut. Those who are growing it cannot, it is stated, cope with the present oversea demand for it. That the United States is alive to the possibilities of the Australian nut is clear from the official statement that tliey are putting in a big acreage of it there and in the Hawaiian Islands. Americans, it is stated, claim that it is the best nut procurable in the world.

A South Otagn visitor to Christ church during the week mentioned to "Straggler" that the present season is an exceptional one in the South for root crops. Good turnip grazing was to be had for wethers at -d a week and there did not appear to be enough stoek about to deal with the flush of root feed. There had been plenty of rain,' but nothing like the succession of frosts that Canterbury had experienced.

Fanning organisations in different parts of the Dominion are expressing concern at the heavy killing of ewe lambs and the effect it will have on the maintenance of breednig flocks. Some suggestions have gone as far as the Government stepping in and prohibiting the export of ewe lsmb3. The question has arisen periodically since the start of the lamb export trade, but the law of supply and demand has always solved the problem before it has become a serious one. One year's crop of ewe lambs should keep our breeding flocks up to strength for three years. '°