GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2002, 9 March 1914, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

-..An: important business enango is announced from -Hawera. The Incw Zeaiimd Fanners' Co-operacive Organisation Society, Lkl., has 'purchased tho whole of the Taranaki auctioneering business ■of (lillies and Holder. Tlio new company takes possession on April 1.

The shipment of cattlo some timo ago, from Auckland to Java, lias, according to accounts received recently, not succeeded too well. Although only one died on tho trip over, still, since arrival, another cix have been lost through 'some so far unknown cause. Veterinary experts have not yet decided .whether ..this is tho result of tho change of feed, or the very hofclimate, but lean rather to tlio latter idea.

In 18S5 there 'were 772,398 sheep in tho Waitaki County, while at the present time there aro only 600,000, said Mr. G. Livingston© when speaking at tho opening of tho now freezing works at Pukeuri, near Oamaru. The decreas'o was attributable, he said, to the closer settlement of the land by. dairy iarmeris, and to the lact that tho rabbits ihad a greater hold now than in ISSS.

To-day nearly 60 boys, drawn from tho Tafhape, Hunterville, Marton, Wanganui, and Feilding schools, will go into .camp for a fortnight on Mr. E. Short's "Armadale" property (says the Feilding "Star"). The camp is held annually for tho boys taking the agricultural course in this centre of tlio Wanganui Education Board's dis-. trict, and it has increased in usefulness every year. Next week's camp will bo occupied largely in practical work in connection with heavy horses, Hereford cattle, Homney, Lincoln, and Southdown sheep, - and in tho evenings lectures are to bo given with a view to popularising tho pig industry. Messrs. J. Grant and 0. A. Banner will bo iu charge. A feature of the camp will be tho competition for a number nf medals donated by momb'ers of Hie Feilding A. and IV Association.

Tlis; world exacts from jou Us toll of /worry nml 'work—there's n« noed for you 1.0 mid to it. Make things as ensy as you can—"Victor" Vats lighten labour and help increase the quality of the. cheese. "Victor''. Vats have Hint, sloping bottom ■which paused Midi n sensation in tho cheese-making world. Every factory should have-"Victor" Vats, they aro built for pfliciency .and satisfaction. Write for particulars. Albert J. Parton, Plumbor, Oarterton.—Ailvt.