GENERAL FARMING NEVVS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1082, 22 March 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEVVS.

\ The first show held at Murchison - (under the auspices of the Murchison ■ branch of the Farmers' Union) was a very . successful aifair. In some of the princi- ■ pal sections entries were small, but there ; was good competition in the hack classes. Some good burns of bush are reported from the JioroVhenua district. The present daily supply of milk to the Jlangaramaraina Co-operative Cheese Company, Limited, is 620 gallon.':, and the tests range from 4.1 (o i.'J, states an exchange. 1 An exchange remarks that at two re- " cent horticultural shows at which prizes ' were offered for blackberries grown in I the district, gatherings from roadside ' crops gained the first and second prizes. The blight is seriously affecting tho j \ turnip and rape crops in. Southland, and ■ also in soine parts, of Olaigo, while in ' South Canterbury,.on the other hand, farmers are...not suffering ■ much,. states a South Island paper. The prospects for supply of grass feed during the winter months are far from promising, and , many lilies of young lambs are still unfit : for freezing..- Heavy .rain, is quite a lio- . cessity in districts north -of Dunediu, j" where it would' generally facilitate the 1 work of ploughing and the general ciil- , tivation of autumn-sown crops. > In answer to a question asked him ; by a settler at a meeting, at Te Ariii, , Poverty Bay, Mr. W. D. Lysnar said that , the Poverty "Bay farmers would never . know why the prices they obtained for > their mutton were .below tho"te obtained - elsewhere, uulil they had Government ; grading. Posturing was not. the only fac- ; tor—in fact, they hud belter pastures than were to be found in Hawke's Bay. 3 If graders were appointed nnd interchaiiß- - ed from time to time the settler would s Soon know what he was producing. IIV. 3 Lysnar said he believed that while flic grader; should not interfere, with the , classification of sheepi they should be r empowered to differentiate the grade ac : cording to the quality of the product. b Tims if Canterbury lainb. was of a higher e class than that on any other-place the 2 expert; should have power to put the - first-class ijrndV from that place in ad- ; vonce.'of the first grade liieat from else- ', where; fie looked to the grader tn edu(l cato the""farmer" at this cmPjust as tile •1 proposed representative committee would - educate the public, at Home, if such a !, committee were set up. e A milk-condensing agent wp.s trying to " establish a condenser;. - in an Illinois com- "' munity. A farmer was talking to him ■*' and objected to the strictness of the rules, v saying: "You ave too particular about a little manure in the milk." < "No!" said the agent, "we're not; we will buy your ,■ manure and we will buy your milk; but o we object to.have you mix/them for us." —American paper.