GENERAL FARM NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 25, 24 October 1907, Page 2

GENERAL FARM NEWS.

Mr. . T.- W;.Kirk, Government ■■• Didlogisty who has boon attending, a horticultural l conference, at Adelaide, will'leave Hobart for Wellington on November 2.'- ■.• ■ ■■ --\' ' '■■■<iv. A: good.crop of; tho poisonous , hemlock is reported: by the '.'North , Otago .Times!', to-bo growing on; Government . land near a-big , southern''railway' station." :• -.-■■. . ': <u i Tho/directors of: tho; Eltham- Dairy ;; Com; panyihavo decided to ipostpono all, action with; respect to . erecting, ohcoso,:plants.!untili.tho ond,:of March next. 1 -.;, ■■;■■• ■.':■-■ •.'."'' .•'■•■■.'■■■■■ Tho area,under, cocksfoot , on. tho:Penmsula (says the "Ashburton .Guardian") is. not: quite so large as it was last season, and the growtlris irather'-backWard, but there is every prospect of high prices, Tilling, for good seed. • / A barge containing" a flaxmilling ' plant, which was boiiig -towed-by the Kotahi to Mokau, was Wrecked, off Waitara on Saturday night. TheMlkrge'fjvas,-smashed to pieces. The flaxmilling plant iV fully intact, and it is hoped thav it will be successfully salvaged. The plant belongs, to a private i. company, , 'of which Messrs L; Mentoath and L. JJuckman, of .New,Plymouth,,.are mqiabers.,. The barge.was valued.at, £CO. Two, men, : named James Brophy and James Grant,, had a .narrpw escape of being drpwiied.r— 'IMaiiawa.tu Standard." ~. '. ~:) . :-_ > .-:: ' i A Maori (says the "Wairarapa.-,...Dai1y,. was observed planting potatoes the other day, in the old fashioned way. of in-. sertiqg.-his.Vspade th.o,sets .111-. at the back, of.:,?t.;;qlip;ipj!ilppk9r, however, .noticed that tW cultivator .was putting, in, three sets, and enquired lhe Maori. replied quite! .seriously, ' .Well, you, see, there's one for' the Lord,.. and one tor. the .'blight, and one;for,'.the Maori — .pef;,, ■haps !"■ ': ..- ..■'... • ■ The following consignments'of cheese.trom Carterton factories will"be:taken for England bv the Ruapehu tMay': —' Dalefield, .150 ' cases; Parkvale,' 120 cases; Belvedere, 100 cases; Taratahi, 40 cases. ' About, the .middle of last month New 2*aland cheese was quoted; in London at 595. to 61s. with stocks small.. . The fine weather during the past tew dayshas enabled shK-pfsjmers,in the-Eketahuna district to complete docking ogeratious. ine lambing in the district has been ajrecord., — ".SVairarap'a Age." ;\ '. .' • --' ■' ,\ Tho nutter bos conference at ■ Palmerstoii North, previously !irranged ; for October 29, has been chanced' to" October 31. , . Shearinc is in full swing at Mr. Bidwill s Bototawaf Station, says the "Masterton * "Three thousand gallons .of milk aro .being supplied daily to the Featherston Co-opera-tive Dairy Factory.. . ,' ',? ''< Mr. C. M'Donald, of Nireaha, has,been appointed manager of, tho Linton-. cheese factory. ■■■ . "' : ''';

; ." wftwAikato. '"'"^'i. : The Wai'kato is suffering from; an exceptionally wot spring./;^' , settlor■w;tliat rf distriot.writmg: to a:!fri,end ,i-.m., Wellington, savs: -'.'.Tho roads. are i rather, worse, than .1 over saw: them,,ancl.the .weather is monotonously ,bad. Eor,,tra, solid, weeks had rain every day, excepting,, .perhaps, for.three or four days, and then we had gales of wind Our paddocks are . sodden,, and the cattle redoing badly. )I; can't fatten any,,, and tho dairy-cows are going,oft already. - lhe, writeitis.the.owneT.of-oneof the, most fay-, dairy .farms in, the, Wai-. kato. : ■ '.■■■•!. ■:>'■;;? ;-M-.!i >' ■ •■■ ■'■ >' ■ ■