GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 740, 12 February 1910, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

'referred' (i\Tife'pur' correspondent) ' to'; ppqi-atiqhs-'ifthe;-'Boiough'- Council in the farming line. ' My refe'renco ivaa ■'.to-the sale of wwr.from' its floek'of sheep. This week, the council's lambs;.were submitted' to-auction, /and'; brought : the top •price of .the. day-for lambs—viz., 105.,2-d., AVhioh': : mu'st'-:be considered -very;,satisfac-> .toxy. -Besides, the sheep;'.the coiincil has : ja .'paddock of.-sdi ;of.oats,/which hasjust been cut,'and is turning o.ut ably the ;birdi,'have, had a good portion of the grain, . ' . Mr., Ernest; Short .judged: thej'Romney! Marsh' sheep - ati Dannevirke show: yestsrda>r. After this; show. Mr.: Short : is. going to" Welliagton to' arrange for; the shipping of; 24; sheep, to. Soiitji _ America '.fbr the•great: Argentine.'show.' • "'" .' ' • . ;, The pn^""of. dairying:lahd-here'.(w'ntes our Woodsido correspondent) continues to increase. . The -farm ■ recently • sold by Mr. bought by.. ,:'agf)-: for; £23. per aoro i . , rains .arrived. ■;in : AVellingtori /ftdm •.Mel-• bourne' by', tho ' yesterday,' and werefonvarded. on,- by train" to Mr. Cooper, of Mnsterton. i- ■ A spMiker': at'rthe' recent? meeting held ,'at* 'Cromwell/ i ;(says' | ;ihe t , ;;''Ar|us'-) stated'. thing to men pay a largo premium for -the/right'-to kill; the rabbits ' on: a: block-of Sountrf for! the Avihter, tha /provisipn . that-they-': can.'keep , thel skins. The; ordinary/rate on'the station' runs, to about'2os. per hundred for. poisoning work,- and; at the . prices' ruling last' winter / for skins the; return would probably run "into fully. '4os.-. per hundred oh the high conntry .block?, - so'.there is a good marginjleft' to .pay a. preraiiuh vrith.' as a couple". of . ; . men: for/a ..winter's .workvoften collect..;as,,'many. as'. 10,000/ skins .off block in three months. • .. - ..- Paiaka, tho well-known fiai and dairy property ,of 347 acres ' freehold and 1 ,160 acres leasehold,:- soino of the richest land on tho\Manaiv;atu,'with flax'cutable this year, will bo sold at auction byVDalgety and ,Co,, at Palmerston North oh Saturday, I6th February.. Tho terms, may be. arranced.—Advt.-