GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

; A meeting of theDannevirke Committen of tho Meat Producers' Association was held.on Saturday. It is expected that 1-300 will to raised in Danneyirko towards the Homo representative scheme. It was decided to wvito to all meat producers'in the district who have not ;o . far' subscribed ■'to tho fund, says an exchange. It was decided to open a bankins account. ' The Ballance Dairy Company's creamery at Scarborough is now running four days a week, on Monday, Wednesday, ■Friday, and Saturday.- The quantity ot milk 'delivered for two days is 1200 gallons, which is a very fair total for this period of the year. Some of the tests are very high, ono being as high as G. 3, while quite a number range between 1.0 and s.l.—Exchange.: Entries for tho dairy produce sections of the Dominion Dairy Show, to be held in Hawora on. July 5-8, are excellent (states the "Star"), andyery keen competition can, therefore, be expected. Practically all tho principal factories in Taranaki and Wellington will be represented. Thirty-two factories have entered, and their entries in tho various classes aggregate 100. In the pavilion of the Department of ■Agriculture, at the Sydney fioyal Show, an instructive exhibit was made.by the Government Microbiology, il-lustrating;'-sbrao;.iof 'tho 'diseases to which animals-anti plants are'subjected in Aus 7 tralia, and some of tho larger parasites affecting tho former. In the catalogue distributed in the pavilion, full descriptions were givenof these- exhibits, with notes on the diseases produced. The objects aimed at by the exhibit were to enable tho man on the land to recognise tho nature of tho various diseases of animals or plants,, so, that this knowledge ;mightform tho basis of prevention. The specimens -included- a series of tuber-culosis-conditions from cattle and pigs, actinomycosis (lumpy jaw, etc.), swine fever, contagious■mammitis of dairy cows, pleuro-pncumonia, many worm parasites of domesticated animals, and fungus diseases (rusts, smuts, Irish blight, etc.), of cereals, potatoes, tomatoes . and other plants.