GENERAL FARAIING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1063, 28 February 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARAIING NEWS.

Babbit ppisoning continues'a't : Kopuatho. Wastorfon ,l 'f'Tiuies'.'). .Although a great'.'nua'ntity oiftttoison has ;ljccn laid this Ecasop", ,'itcauwt bo'" said that'the rabbit hds'apiireciated.llio'kindly attentions of tbo fariuer." For some reason tho poison has not been " freelytaken. . ._ . ■ * . \ Ealing (Canterbury) farmer complained of what ho terms tome glaring nnomolies in railway rales. "Could any.thing," ho nsked, more idconsistout than this?, -I tau'nctfiftUy prpiiuro goods in Christchurdi, send them-to Tiuiuru,' nnd back to Ealins ss. a ton cheaper than I can get those same goods sent from Christchurch. to Ealins direct." Such inconsistencies, - , he added, were very annoying to tho farming community and should not be permitted to exist. -A number of >E]iccn--have' »be«n disappparing\in,'n mystcridus mnuiier in thQ vicinity of Mastbrton recently {according to the "Wairarnna Times"), One man lost twenty-sevenout of a small flock of two '.mndred, while similar losses havo been experienced by others. Steps aro being token to ascertain tho manner of their disappearance. ' - <The "potato-blight-this'year-is not so. pronounced as it .has been in the Asbr burton county in pqst seasons. Generally," tho.early crops ar<v said..to bo very satisfactory, as to yields, but, of course, the'late crop, which is tho most important, ljas not. yet been lifted..' . 1 "Aniexhibitibn. of: tho 'products of the Kltool plots nt ' Mnstertoii, Cnrterton, Greytown, Lniisdov.iie, Claroville, and other schools is being arranged for in Wellington bv llr. W.-C. Daws, aericullural instructor,to'thb'W«lliri'gfon Education Board.

The farmers in the Masterton district who grew maize last tcasnn hnvo boon so pleased with the result that they intend sovviiig it very- extensively next spring, A number who hnve not hitherto grown it have also announced their intention of putting in crops.-Ex(|iangc. When in New South Wales recently, Mr. U. Bayli?s of Mangatainoka, purchased nx pedinrce Ilolstein collie—thrco heifers, two heifer calve?, nnd ono bull— from the well-known Jlolsfeiu breeder, Mr. A. C. Lamond, of Nou-rn.. The eiro of tho bull wns oworded first nnd champion at the Itoy.il Show in Svduey, last year. Mr. C. Hopping, of Gfen Oroua, accompanied Jfr. Bayliss, and ho brought back to New Zealand no fewer than fifteen Holsteinsv Australian horso dealers are reported to havo put in an appearance in New Zealand again. They nro commencing in Southland, and working up, according to reports received. Considerable quantities of Algerian oats have been sown in tho Masterton district within tlio last fc;v weeks for autumn fet-d (states the Masterton "Times"). Somo of tho earlier creps aro already above tho ground nnd artf looking remarkably well. *