GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Mushrooms wero sold at from 10s. to per banana case on the Wellington market during the week. , Tomatoes, which were so cheap a while ago, are bringing from 2s. 6d.. -,to 4s. 6d. a half caseontho Welling;torv market. . • : ~ : The Tikokino correspondent of 1 a Hawke's Bay naner writes large portion of the Argyll Plain's has again been put under ci'ods, which now are looking fresh 1 and green. More rain is sadly needed,' wells and streams having dried up in several nlaces. The farmers' one hope now is that frosts may be delayed, in order that' winter may have a chance to grow, otherwise cattle will have rather a bad time." The growth of the "Victorian apple export trade is marked .by the shipment made bv the Pera for tho United Kingdom, which reached 32,000 cases. The total figures for the season will reach over 300,000 cases, according to the "Age," which is much above the estimate formed at th 9 commencement of the year's export. The shipment is nearly three times as large as tho whole of the overseas export for one season only ten years back. In 1900 the number of cases exported from Victoria was •11,019. --A _'.' . y . _._;■. - '-•■ ," At Wyndham (New South Wales) u company "has been formed with the object of establishing a rabbit-canning factory (states a Sydney exchange).. Over 30J0 shares have been taken up. Shareholders have .fixed a .site for the factory, and the. building will, be expedited so "that operations may begin this winter. Inquiries made show that canned rabbit will bo ■ purchased in any quantity by the British Admiralty. Rabbits are overrunning the country in which the factory will operate! The movement is primarily to rid the land of the pest. Should the venture prove successful no doubt other factories will be opened in adjoining rabbit-infested localities.. Tho capital required is only .£I2OO. A German paper gives - an account of sawdust bread. Works in Jterlin' aro producing about 200 quintals . of. "wood bread' a day. This cattle food is mado by submitting the - ■ sawdust to'' several chemical processes after it has been fermented, and then mixing it with rye flour in the proportion-.of two parts •of sawdust to one of flour. It is then baked in the same way as ordinary bread. The product is l.sed for feeding horses. A new, Commonwealth record for the largest quantity of wheat loaded into a single ship has been established (says an Adelaide.message). A firm shinned 123,975 bags, equivalent to .187,413 "bushels. This is oyer 40,000 bushels more than the previous record. In one' New South Wales district several valuable heavy draught horses have died from the effects of the . bot fly. o-f late In the case of a horse recently purchased for ,£ls, the lining of the stomach was found lo be perforated, and alivo with: the pest..