GENERAL FARMING NEWS.
" Several farmers in the Mastorton. dis.trict intend putting down silos this summer, says the "Age". The value of ensilage as'a winter food for stock is being gradually appreciated by settlers.
.Gooseberry bushes in Mastcrton or.chards an> stated to bo badly affected this-year with a form of blight which causes tho leaves to turn vellow, and the friiit to ripen prematurely.
, The blight is reported to have made its appearance in several of the potato props iii the Missterton, district. ■ Haymaking is. now in full swing in ■the iMastorton district. Tho . harvest, it :i'j stated, promises' 6b bo heavier than usual. . • ■'-... . - ~ .
It was mentioned at tho meeting of the -llastorlon A. and P. Association on Saturday that Mr. H. D. Vavasour, of Marlborough, intends exhibiting Shropshire Down sheep at tho February show in Jlasterton. A special judge from the Aortli for Shropshire Downs"is to be appointed. '
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1309, 12 December 1911, Page 8
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148GENERAL FARMING NEWS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1309, 12 December 1911, Page 8
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