GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1148, 8 June 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

The Manuka, which sailed from Now Zealand for Melbourne this week, had on board a number of New Zealand-bred horses. Thirt.v-four were from Wellington, 25 from Dunedin, and nine from Bluff. At Dunedin, 78 rams were also taken on bou-rd. An exchange reports that a good many lambs are making an appearance in Taranaki. The turnips, swedes, and mangolds in connection with the field competition under the auspices of the Masterton A. and P. Association will be judged this week, probably to-day. It is reported that owing to the ravages among the crops, of the moth the entries arc not large. It is expected that this week tho Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company will close down for the season. . A Hunterville report states that there is yet a considerable, amount of feed, and no doubt the effects of the dry summer will, after all, prove beneficial, having given the grass a. needed spell. • A good deal of ploughing is being done at present in the Wairnrapa. The executive of the Eltliam branch of the Farmers' Union has passed the following resolution:—"That this executive expresses its regret at the departure of Mr. P. M'Connell, manager, from the Mouma-haki-Stato Farm, its appreciation of the courtcsy and encouragement extended by him to members of the union, and wishes him success in his new position." Dairymen in the Masterton district are at prosolit paying as much as £12 for good cows to come into profit at once, tho Masterton "Times" reports. The Southland "Times" of Tuesday says:—"There arrived at' Bluff yesterday 7G9 cases of cheese which. were sent forward by tho Moana.. Of these Gil cases were for London, and 125 for tho Westof England, t'ho latter being for transhipment to the Monyshire at Lyttelton. For tho corresponding fortnight of last year 1120 eases—all for London —were shipped. During the week 410 cases were' taken on board tho Morayshire for West' of England." In conversation with a Southland "Times" reporter, Mr. .T. B. Scott, the secretary of the South Island Dairy Association, said that he wished to lay stress "on the fact that New Zealand cheese is being sacrificed with a view to depressing the market for the Canadian article." The "Times" report's that Mr. Scott's opinion has boon endorsed by ■another-'authority." Mr. S. Johnson, of Palmerston North, has accepted - the position of judge at the forthcoming show of t'he South Wairarapa Poultry Association. Some Australian butter which reached England recently is reported to have contained 23.58 per cent of moisture. An Agent-General, reported the matter to the Board of Agriculture, and asked if he would be allowed to use the butter for blending purposes. The official reply was that, subject to the board's right to institute proceedings in connection with this j shipment' of butter containing tho illegal proportion of water . mentioned, thero would be no objection to the importer treating the; goods so as to reduce tho moisture to legal limits. A recent mail from London stated that there was a good demand on tho Continent for Australian butter.