GENERAL FARM NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 10

GENERAL FARM NEWS.

The Maknri-Pongaroa. Dairy : Company . will! November" milk! bupplird, during. Octobpr. :v.This\".'muggy " ''weather is .'splendid grbwing weather, but .it. is also the ideal , sort' to produce the fungus. diseases of • plants and. the aphis - insect pest. 'Farmers who delay any longer , the work .of spraying will .stand, a strong chancoYof. losing' their -potato crops -by eiten-' isivo attacks of blight. .Bordeaux mixture, is •'the-proper;-preventive.,.medicine.!,;'lt needs to. • be_ remembered that there is. no cure for,potato blight;..; If ;we neglect, to apply" the preventive ,-medicine before *■ the fattack comes along,, we "need not try, to ';cure the. .trouble afterwards, n Tho . Auckland Freezing' Company (telegraphs our special,'Auckland'..corespondent) intends to begin'killing lambs 'on , December 1./ It is stated 'that-,the_ prospects , for the season are'everi more promising, than they'were last yeaf ■though - that was an ..exceptionally' good ■ season, during which"' 90,000 lainbs' were ; put' through. :Tho.-frcezmg,.seasoh,,will ,not ;beiinf'full swing until January. However, the company -is at present . fully, occupied -,in .-preparing beef for' export;'all tho'available-killing space is' taken .up, and 80 head, of cattle are. put through daily. . ..The .market; for beef at, present is very firm - and tho, shipment for- the' Homo market' is fully .booked,. " . ' - . :

The catering of milk was' discussed at- tho Glen Oroua Dairy Company's annual meeting at' considerable' length.; It appeared that' allegations had been made that certain suppliers had watered their milk J with ! the object, presumably,' of increasing their cheques for butterfat. . The discussion, however/- was not-' yery luminous; and .the meeting s dispersed with ithe mystery still unsolved. ; . : ; '

_ The South Taranaki .Winter Show : Company, Limited, was registered on November 5 with an office ,at Princes Street, Hawera! : The fol;.lowing particulars of the..'registration-are reported by., the " Mercantile Gazette " Capital ,;.£3000; : in .600. shares of■'£5' each.' "Subscribers: Wilkie 10,-' A. W. Gilies 5, Ei E.,-Nalder 5, J.,-A. Turton -1, -E. F; Page 4' Nolan- 2,,.8. ,W. Sargent; 2,-. arid, others'Objects: :;To carry .on aud,cstablish.in; : Hawera : a' : vrantor/showi.'or .exhibition of farming and dairying,, utensils,machinery,- etc." ...i; ." .• ■ fDanneyirke'sifirit,,: show,' will be .held ,-on- Friday, FobruaryVll. : 'v.. Sydney Eoyal Show will be held oh March 22 to 30 ' l . ' .Dalefield, on, Saturday, .broke , all previous records of supplies of milk liy reaching 5800 gallons. This: is.. 500 gallons, niore than, on .the best''.day: "-The manager; anticipates reaclnng:6ooo. gallons';early-this'-we6Ki' : ,V-; .-.-Tho supply ofMnilk'at the -Fcatherston 1 Cooperative Cheese Factory on Tuesday last was .4900..ga110n5; and'-on Saturday it rea'ched 5000. This comes close 'to.-the company's record. '? Soirte' .'of the VDarinevirke : ' district farmers realist >good.< prices ;for,' -their i';'wool ; -at' ith'o 'Napi«f( s'io..''ori;'iN'6Ycmber;-;;10,'f Mri 'J... Batby;! Totaranui, got 13d.-'for"'his,- and several others prices verged, on Is.. . . Shearing' has-commenced in the Awariki district, Messrs. J. Carlson, J. ■ Livingston, Titch- , marsh, Neal, ■ Afflick, Stuckey, and Chcesman having mado a beginning.' , .• - The checso and b'ntter -markets 'are firm. The beef and hemp markets, are steady. •

i : ■ STUD STOCK ARRIVES. Ths 6.5. Turnkina, which arrived-at Wellington,v from'.England-yesterday, had on-board, consigned through Messrs. \ Dalgety and Co.'s Lyttelton office, a Clydesdale stallion from Mr. A.-W. Montgomery's stnd, and 10 Border-Leices-ter rams from the flocks of Mr. Smith, of Kelso: and thoiDuko of Richmond. One of the rams isfor MiyMnrdoch,'of : Gore.' ,v The sliip had also on' board two old sheep dogs for Mr. Johnson, of Morton. . :

Mako poor, land good, and good land bfittnr PISON'S SPECIAL FERTILISERsTfor Turnips and Rapo.—* -'■■ ■• v -•.•■■ ...,