GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1095, 6 April 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

A shipment of frozen-mutton from the Wellington Farmers' Freezing Works at Waingawa- is due to arrive in London on Tuesday. It is reported that it has been sold' at a satisfactory figure. •The grain-carrying season-'on-tho Southland railways is now, in full swing, having set in rather earlier than Visual (says the "Southland Times"). Already, since the beginning, of the year, '202,558 sacks have been" carried, as against 167,016 sacks • carried during 'the-' corresponding peribd'of last year. "During the week ended Saturday last 51,298 sacks were sent over the railway. The plot for agriculture at the Haniua school has just been dug up, .in prqpara■tion for work, for .the Class this year. A new supply of agricultural implements ;has"arrived.'for work,in connection with tho. classes. The crops that have been sown for green feel throughout t'Ke AVairnrapn. this season.arc stated'.to be coming along fairly well, notwithstanding the dry weather (says the "Daily Times"). The heavy dews that have, fallen are no doubt responsible, to some extent, for this satisfactory state'of affairs.' ;.'" A Eaincliff'resident showed some big up-to-date notatoe's in Timaru on Saturday. Ono "weighed 31b. 11.0z... and six ot them 1351b. Four Beauty .of Hebrons turned'the scales at 3lb.' Bee farmers in the Feilding district (says tho "Star*') report splendid yields of honey this season. One firm in the Kairanga have no fewer than 23 tons of pure honey,'which has all been sold at a net return of s;d. per lb. A large quantity was. shioped to.London, -n-hero-it brings 7d. per lb. wholesale. Tho "Timaru Herald" states that a Springfield farmer has sold 14,000 bush?ls of wheat at 3s. 2d. per bushel on trucks. The line was.chiefly Velvet. Mr. W. B. Snow., who is described as a well-known statistician, gives the figures for the live stock census ot the United Stales in. 1911 as follow:-Horses, 20,763,000; mules, 3,976,000; 'milch' cows,' 21,853,000; other cattle, 17,669,0.00; sheen, 51,«i)3,0.00; pigs, 16,361,t|00.. The figures show increases on, the corrected enumeration, of 1910 of, 551;000 horses, 78,000 mules, 332,000 milch cows," 237,000 sheen, aiid 1,395,000 Digs, with a decrease of 1,111,000 cattle other than milch cows. The Department figures have shown a yearly increase .in milch cows since 1898, and a constant decline of other cattle since 190".