FARM NOTES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 75, 23 December 1918, Page 8

FARM NOTES

Haymaking is well under way, says : • Greytwvn correspondent, and tho ipa are very heavy owing to the wet son. Reports received from the fruit-grow-f centres of Southland show that ips hnve bean badly- affected liy tho e- frosts experienced recently. In the inion of a Southland wholesale .fruit reliant it is very probable that there ■I be an all-round shortage of fruit s season.

■here ha* been, a coasidcrnhle inquiry Southland recently for both neren,l and Italian rye-grass. There is, yever, very little business passing, as rers are 'not disposed to accept the ptatioM made by local merchants, o, however, are etanding firm in view the future. It has now been almost kblished that the quantity of seed to ihnrvesfetl will arrive later liian usual, 1 will ba of considerably less volume in in ordinary seasons. Current rates y Iμ taken as on the .bn'sis of ss. 9d. ss. 10d. for 2olb. machine-dressed seed Rood appearance and quality. ■Yes, lie earned a pound beforo break- [," said- a well-known sheopfarmer •' other day in speaking of n shoarer rating at his homesteml. "Seventyee sheen , before breakfast is pretty d going," was the rejoinder. "He st have started. fairly early." 'Tive :ock; and he had early tea, too, out the time."—Bannevirk.; "Xews." peaking to a "Waikato Times" repre-' jtative, a gentleman from the Lower ikato staled that though he iiiul.bccu .•esicleiit of that district for a very j period he never remembered seeing potato crops look so .well. There ■e some extraordinary good (returns, i so. far they had enjoyed. immunity hi blight.

j'ool is now beginning to come in Sly lo Daniievirke railway station, tho tement of the epidemic and the adt of settled weather havhg enabled work to be proceeded with in earn;lu some sheds the work will take ijer this year rtliaii usual owing to bil.ity to secure full boards of shcar—Dannevirko "News."