GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1178, 13 July 1911, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Hares are becoming plentiful throughout the Kaiparoro district, and are proving another pest for farmers to cope with. Lately, they have been showing great partiality for turnips and carrots. The Waiau correspondent of tho Christchurch,'Tress" states that haros are very numerous on the various settlements at present, and are doing a lot of damage to turnip crops.. A recent visitor to the Mangahao and Bnllanco districts, in the Forty-Mile Bush expresses himself as surprised at the rapid progress in settlement which has been made of late years. The Dominion .Winter Show, at Hawora, attracted a. largo number of interested visitors throughout tho last day (according to tho. •'Star"). The attendance for tho last four (lavs, was very gratifying, no fewer than. 13,809 having passed, through the'doors, as. against • 13,600 last year. Lambs have already made their appearance on thq ' Boulder Bant run, Marlborough. This (says an exchange) is believed to l:o a record in early lambing. In the North Wairarapa and the ForiyMile Bush district, the grass grub ha* been doing damage. Many farmers are ploughing up tho land attacked in the hope of eradicating the pest. So rapidly has the grub been carrying on its work that Farmers despair of being able to stayits progress by any other means than ploughing tho grass in, says an exchange. To support a contention that "draught horses can bo bred with sufficient quality ■to withstand the hardest kind of use," vhe "Breeders' Gazette" (Chicago) says:"Thero is no work which thoroughly tests a draught horse's wearing quality than hauling coal. Coal is taken in the heaviest loads and into all kinds of situations difficult to reach. Still the 3. Rheiufrank Co., of New York, boasts of a iIOSO-pouild roan gelding good 'enough to stand third in tho class of draught geldings shown to halter at the last National Horse Show. Big Bill, as he is called, has' worked a number of years in front of tho most heavily loaded coal wagons, but his great ivory-like legs and feet are perfectly clean and his massive body still carries the. bloom of. a colt. Mr. Samuel Kinsan, of Belfast and Indianapolis, who died recently, was referred to in America as the introducer of the system of refrigeration in tho curing of' American meat. Fifty-nine years ago Mr. Eingan and his brothers cmimat.ed'to Cincinnati,. where about onethird of the nigs commercially slaughtered in the West were then dealt with. The firm of KingaD and Co. inaugurated the curing of American meat for exportation, transferring the American branch of their business to Indianapolis after some years. Mt. Samuel ICiugnn, the head of the 'firm, returned to Belfast after sixteen years, to mauago tho Irish branch of t!je business.