GENERAL FARM NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 2

GENERAL FARM NEWS.

Mr. J. J Bayliss, of Wagga::Wagga, Now South Wales, who was: judge of shorthorns at tho Huwko's Bay Show, on Wednesday, . has gone. to Gisborne, whoro die will also l , take part in the'judging of tho.cattle aris-. • tocracy. Mr. Bayliss ■ intends to visit ,i Ghristchurch before roturning to Now South 1 Wales. , ' • « The Gear Company,.has;,.fof years made ] a feature.of-its Christmas.presents,business., j Tho presents .take the,form,of; fine fat.lambs, < writes , our Wairarapa correspondent, which j are; sent to relatives, in tho.Old Country by j New Zoalanders. Great care is'taken, in the ; selection of those animals by thei Company's ] experts,- and high class quality, is, an abso- ( lute .necessity. Out of. an excellent .flock ( tho ,average, selection, is usually, not more J than 25 per cent., and the : price, paid runs i to something near 15s. a head. The Com- ] panyls 1907 consignment has just been.se- | lected by Mr.:-A. Reside, .from- Mr. Av W, , Cave's .flock. There were a thousand first- • class Southdown lambs: paraded, and . 278 . were selected., ; _ • , There:: is a-: growing demand- for> tinned .meats in Now Zealand and;, also in Great Britain.: The •. British peoplo are just now recovering from> the , Chicago revelationsNew. Zealand' did 'some 1 time ago—and > unless something rdally' dreadful; is "recorded the. ■ trade in ' presorved meats 'should soon reach, its former level, 'although it :is not American meats which will bo dealt- with. The New Zealand ' firms, writes our, • Wairarapa : correspondent,. are iu 'the 'peculiar condition of not being'able to take'advantage of tho market. The'reason •is that they are not sure of'their supply. The sheep market is subject to such. decided fluctuations in this country that advantage cannot be taken .-of. it to tender for any big army or "admiralty contract.- The position was the ■ same with : reference to, JNcav Zealand beef. ■ The Australian' States were 1 ill' a much bet-': : ter position for contract .work, than we 'were, because there was a much better chance'of supply at regular prices. •• :• >.• . An internationnr'agricultural' and pastoral show is to be held' in Moikb Video' in"February next. Mr.- E. Short, \of -Waituna, will : have a ram and thirty ewes-oh oxliibi- ' tion, there. . These sheep are to be sent over •to a 'buyer "111 the Argentine, who "will iilace them on exhibition at tho show.' . ' - In yesterday's " Star" an Aorahgi dairyman criticises a paragraph irom' tho monthly "Dairyman;" in which it was stated that a farmer's wife had been known to milk sixty cows in one afternoon. Tho Aorangi man adds: "I learned to milk when about'six years of age, and can milk as well and as quickly as anyone. I can assure you that-no mortal person, male or female, could possibly milk sixty cows iii one afternoon—six cows, an liour is a good average, so that it would take ten hours without a rest to milk sixty cows. I have heard folks say they could milk ten cows',in ah hour, but li;doubt it, ! and, although a good milker might milk ten cows ,in one hour, no, one could liiillc thirty in .three hours." At the Hawke's Bay Show last week Mr. .E. Short booked orders, for 475 flock ; Romnev j rams... j. . . ' -j " Mr. Browne, dairy instructor for the ,' ( Wanganui Education Board, has obtained - 1 'leave to accompany tho scientific expedition 1 to tho Campbell, Auckland, and other islands on November 7, providing he. can mako ar- 1 rangoments for. carrying on, his classcs. , 1 A Carterton breeder of fat stock received 1 375. for a pick of his. ewes yesterday, this ' oasily establishing a record price for the Wairarapa. The same ewes (235. 2d) liav- J ing reared a crop of lainlis (145.) turned off fat, and then themselves'being sold, .proves: ' that there is money, in sheep in expert hands. r Agricultural operations wero in full swing 1 in Rangitikei last week,, and, given fine .< weiither from now on, there will be a fair I amount of grain sown. lij will'be late, but ' prices are so good that a Jight crop will pay well next year. - • ' The first shorn sheep made their appear-' ance in Rangitikei' district -at the end of -i last week. ■■ ' — ' , I