GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1124, 11 May 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

New Zealand produce-raisers will be interested to hear that in England the month of March, which it is important to English farmers should be fine, was very disappointing climatically..

According to a London adyice, quotations for all varieties of .dairy produce in iXpudon on March -i (quotations except fov New Zealand for finest only) were:—Butter:-French, 112s. to HGs.; Danish,- 119s. to 1215.; Siberian, 100s. to 1045.; Victorian unsalted, 102s. to IOGs.; Victorian salted,-98s. to 1025.; New South Wales, unsalted, 100s. to 101s.; New South Wales, salted, 975. to 100s.; Queensland, unsalted, 98s. to 1025.; Queensland, salted, 9(is. to 100s.; New Zealand, finest, 105s. to 108s.; good to fine, 91s; to 102s. Cheese: Canadian, white, (ils. to G3s.; Canadian, coloured, 625. to G3s., occasionally fits.; English, 68s. to 825.; New Zealand, white, and coloured,.6os. to 61s.

The dairy factories and creameries are shortening time, says a Woodville corresliondoiir. Most of them are.taking milk only every other day, while somo are. closing down altogether for the winter.

. Although Hawke's Gay has just' passed through one of the driest seasons experienced for years the ■Waimnrama settlement has well upheld its reputation as a drought-resisting area, says a correspondent of the "Jlawke's Bay Herald." At no time during the past summer has there been a scarcity of green grass. Stock generally in the settlement are in [;ood condition, and the coming -winter is being looked forward to with renewed confidence by the settlers.

At a recent sale in Derbyshire, England, agricultural land averaged £N ss.

At the annual meeting of the English Bomney Marsh Breeder:-' Association, Jlr. K. S. Stronts suggested that the council take into consideration the advisability of the establishment of flock competitions, such flocks to bo judged on their farms. The suggestion met with general approval, and was adopted for reference to. the council.

Figures given in the "Ueview of Hie River Plate" show that at nn miction sale 'of Lincoln sheep at Palermo Showground. Ijttenos Ayres, the highest price obtained for one animal was .£fll 17s. (id. The seller was Jl. .1. Cobo, whose fourteen sheep averaged .£ls 3s.

An International Dairy Congress is to be opened in Stockholm on .Mine 28.

A shepherd in England who removed a couplo of hundred sheep, contrary to an order respecting foot nnd mouth disease laid hinibclf open to a fine of .ElOO.i. Ho was fined Is., and the costs were reckoned at S=. Cd,

In some of the coastal districts of Australia Rhodes grass appear* likely to prove a formidable rival to the prolific paspalum for dairying pasture (says the Sydney "Telegraph"). A dairyman states: "In the latter part of February and the beginning of March I cut a paddock of IS acres of Rhodes gross. It was sown in June last. I started to feed it off in October, when it was about lft. high. I had nearly three head to the acre on it, nml they could not rat it down. Jt went to s£«l in spite of them. T closed it up on about January 25, anil started to cut seed on February il. I look altogether ."1001b. of seed off Hie paddock. Another crop would cut live lons of hay to the acre. I have paddocks, nnd cattle wot'l look at them while I hey can get the Rhodes. In this district they grow practically nothing else. I believe it will beat, paspnluiu. It is truly a wonderful fodder and will crow where other grasses will not. It is suitable for hay, and will carry more stock to tho acre than any known "grass."