GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

This season, iii Ibridon cpinplaihts have been made about the heated condition, in which Australian butter arrived. Srtch complaints are- not unusual, in February. ■ Twenty-iour young Swiss immigrants are shortly expected, to settle in Kaponga, Taranaki, says an exchange, and a further "number"are coming out about August. '■ •-. -' This season Queensland butter was of higher quality than ever before, according to some reports from London. American "ladle" butter is being shipped to London. They" have a surplus (300,000 packages) at (,'nited States centres. The Baltic Silberiuu butter is still stored. Great quantities of butter are likely to be carried forward this season. In the Argentine is._ver.y_ dry weather, and the sh'inmcnts are" not. expected to be above 50 tjer"cen,t. of, thp".<;e".of'the latter half of last season.—London ■ correspondent, Sydney "Herald." . '), The anmialreport of the South. Wairai rapa Poultry Association to 1:b presented at a meeting to-inovrow states that the society has had a successful year. The membership of the association has kept up to the mark, the few resignations received having been more than balanced by new members. The animal show in .Tiilv.was a great .'success,, Hie entdcs establishing, a record. , - No--championships were allotted to this association last year, the whole being competed for at Hastings. For, the show in July next have been allotted the championships in Indian Kmmers and Peking ducks. The retiring officers recommend the incoming officers to consider the advisability of holding an art unicn in connection with this year's show. The cattle tick is exercising the minds of Eastern Australian farmers at present. "Respecting the treatment of the trouble, Mr. T. H..M. Hill, of IJnniungar Station, has expressed strong views against the arsenical solution used for dipping cattle nnd spraying horses, and contended that Queensland experience" lias proved this solution was prejudicial.-. Southern Queensland cattle-owners ate agreed that a sulphur dip solution is emmlly efficacious in.destroying the tick, T ond'it is, besides, cooling and harmless, lie is strongly opposed tn using the arsenical solution on horses. Ho considered it much better to substitute a solution of sheep din finspraying horses where necessary. personally, ho thinks the cattle tick is in itself harmless, and that it is only when it remains in the skin and produces irritation that tick fever and subsequently rodwater follow. A further shipment of cheese from the Jlawkosbury College lias been sold by the New Zealand Loan Company, writes the London correspondent of the Sydney "Herald," under date February 3. The coloured made 595., the white 575.. prices about Is. per cwt. under Nt-w Zealand 'cheese. These prices were good, for an article s.o little known as Australian cheese. A favourable report is given by tho. importers, who state that the. cheese was of excellent quality, nnd that the get-up and packing were good. A slight "brittleness" in the make was noted, and Hie two cheeses in each crate (1541b. the I two) .were a little too .tightly packed,