GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 677, 30 November 1909, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

" Entries for the dairy: coir . competition in; connection, with the Pahiatua. A. and P. As?ociation, c Iwhich were extended, close xsvith the. secretary^to-night-at 8:1 p.m.. .; ; . Tho well-known . stallion':. Morning IXerald •'dropped' dead--at- Woodvillo ..on Saturday, (morning. Tile 'horse'.(soys -'our\Patiiatua7 corespondent) was bettor known in the Hawkers Bay district.than. about hbre, .and had seen & good few .'summers. v.w- '" v'~. •* ■ ;. .. •' : Tho recent fall in the North Island, prices ofi pjgs has .somewhat, the ardour-pf -'dairy--'farmers : who hod f been. contemplating greater l attention to pig-raising. Sonye hojie, howevor, is- to .be derived; from , the fact that pig :,7 rtusing in/Britoin'ajid^, Amcrica, has experienced a remarkable diminution during the last year'.'or .; two.\\ This.' diminution /.foreshadows -an early scarcity of that; clasi of '•moat. ':'isf-lield.-among/some., of: our .-farmers Hh- the 'pig-raising- districts that ' good." prospects are r hold -'out- for 6'spbrting the carcasses frozen, and some of thorn will/: try their fortunes in; this direction.:\Mr.' Donald, the well-known ;\Vairarapa dairy farmer* told a Dominion reporter that he. will send Homo 200 frozen Berkshire, baconers this season'. ■■ ;

' .The Ballanco Co-operative Dairy Company, has accepted an offer of lid.;per.pound for a, shipment of butter to Sooth Africa. .:,, . : - ' 'From : the Waipawa.iraUway station there .were trailed,away.3ls bales of wool last Tuos--.-day^aj'reconjjfor; •:.,.; -'. : :'. ' ! wit : sheepileft.Feather., ■:'ston-on.Wednesday last.;. This represents a flock'pf nearly-2000. , --■'."■';.;■■-'■■."'■;■.■■■'••■ The Pohangina County Council agreed, to. p'ay'' : 2d. : .per doieri.for tho. eggs, of larks,'chalfinch'esv linnets,;aid yellow ha'/nmors., ;•;; ; '' - ; Wandering stock (ehtiresexcepted) are to-bo. allowed free rango on the .roads between the northern boundary of. the Pohangina County and the To Horo railway station, except -the Mam'Koad; between ,8 'a.m.' and.'sp'.m. ..■■',.;'..' . Concerning .blackleg diseasß. in .Taranaki, cattle, Captain,XoUng (veterinarian), reporting on the requests for cessation of the' restrictions, says: -"(I)' Cases-::of' blackleg j will, occur in Taranaki for years "to come; (2).if. vaccina; tipn. were, to 'cease' at'the, present: time there would be'..an- immediate', recrudescence oftthe i -diseas,? l ;,i(3). , ;blackleg':qnly fexists'in 'New .'Zealand at the .present time within a small, are'ai but if given facility would overrun' the" whole' of ;the. North- Island in less .than five, years'; time.', This being the case, it is in'-the'inter- ; ests'.' bf ' the ■ Taraiia&i' farmer ■■ that, vaccination should : continue,; and -in the interests of; the 'Dbminio'n 'that.'•'a' , safe quarantine ~be /maintained." , v..v"... ■:•'..-' .[■.■ ;,',;.-.'.; .-■ -' ; -...-.. m ;;:;;. : : -Mi;. , . ( with'.;llr. .Baker, as re--pre'stntatives roftthepairying interests of Bryn Bajf,'' , lNew:So i u''th ,; W , ale^ , recently ; .visited Newi Zealand, in a subsequent■-. interview with : thp, Times," , said that'-ha''was.' convinced: that .the factories;.had.j nothing;to learn-from the- best New factories in regard to the production and mar- , keting ■of butter.: He explained that,'' nVore: fayourable-jjaturaUoqnditipns. gayo; New :Zea-; \land''a- pull: in faking a "better ar.ticlo.th'an' ■'w,ass.pfoduced : i,in: Aubtralia'j.v.the/.climate iwas.cooler, the grasses sweeter (rye grass abounded Jeyerywhcre, especially in v the .noted Taranaki district, to which ho gives the palm, as >an ideal dairying centre),-whilst, the water, which flowed "down from snow-ca'ppijd Jtount Egmont ■was! as J>.ure as ,it waa possible ■ for. water to•'be. New' Zealand: had bo farmers' corporation of : the magnitude: of;i K iC;'. 1 Co-operative Company,' Ltd., but their exportation of butter exceeded '.that,' of: the'. State .'in : the : aggregate;." In. the ■TaranakK district t .lie found that, ilie... various 'farmers'.co-opefahi.e'companies had an asspcia;tipn; for, dealing i'vrith .matters of policy, such" 'as : putter':dxportafipn, , -etc. He .found 'all: tho /.entities:'of -.this 'corpora tiori.:; very- loyal to its aicis,'with:the':result that,much good ; work was accomplished. ; , ,:, ' \.-:'' ! ■''"'■■■'■■'.■■ ■'■