FARMING NOTES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3134, 11 September 1922, Page 2

FARMING NOTES.

CLYDESDALES IN AUSTRALIA. Mr Padbury, of Western Australia, who is a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural shows in Melbourne and Sydney, is now on a visit to Great Britain. Recently he attended a meeting of tfic Clydesdale Horse Society in Scotland, and at the close of the gathering he was invited to address the council. Mr sadbury said he had .come here to learn, not to teach. In Western Australia they had had great difficulties. In that country the climate, l was a great deal warmer than here, and there, was a considerable difficulty in keeping weight in a horse —they had a. tendency to lose weight. Perhaps the climate in Western Australia was not the best, but in the eastern States and in New Zealand they had some very good Clydesdales. They all looked to Scotland as the fountain-head for Clydesdales, and looked to Scotland to keep up the size and weight of the breed. They did not want to go away from a draught horse. When he was in England some years ago ho saw some Clydesdales- he did not know if any of the gentlemen present had bred any of them—but they wore Clydesdales lie would never think of taking to Australia. They wore approaching the spring cart type. It was weight that they wanted. Why the people'in England stuck to Shires he did not know. He came from tho South of England himself, but if he had to drive Shires he would - go crazy. They were too .stiff, too groggy, too tired. He was always talking Clydesdales. He Avas a. Clydesdale man out and out. It was very good of the society to encourage the breed abroad by giving medals. He himself had won about half a dozen of theso medals. Ho noticed they had in the room a photograph of Baron Bold, which he considered was an ideal type of Clydesdale. He had in his own stud tho mare Lady Horatio, dam of tnat horse. They in Western Australia, looked mostly to New Zealand for Clydesdales, and New Zealand looked to Scotland. SKIMMINGS. Mr John Philip, Da.ndaJoith, Scotland, says the Scottish Fanner, has sold to Mr E. Craig, for export to Australia, the two-year-old Aberdeen-Angus buH Dandalcith Erdo. He is by the Harviestoun-bred Prince of Pyrola, exJXirted to Argentina, and is out of the Trojan Edioa dam Endoxa, by Endoxus. the dam also of the well-known champion winner in New Zealand, Ermitano, and of Dandaleith Erule, exported! at a high price to Uruguay. For the same destination there has been acquired from Mr John Mackenzie. Westerside. Ruthven. the two-year-old Master of Tulilochgribban, bred by Mr Chae. G. Robertson, Tullocbgribban. He is one of the Miss Burgees family, beiitg out of Boldest Maid by the Jill," sire Javlin, while his sire is Evince of BallindaMbeh. Master Burgess was first in his class at the Inverness show and sale in 1921. The Melbourne Leader says, an illustration of how food is? manipulated by middlemen was afforded at Trentham recently. A dealler purchased 10 tons of potatoes from, a local grower at £4 10s per ton, the grower to deliver the goods on rail at Trentham. Within half an hour of taking delivery the dealer resold the potatoes to a" Melbourne firm at £5 per ton. Then a remarkable series of transactions took place, with the result that before the consignment of potatoes left Trentham it had changed hands six times, the last purchaser being the original deafer, who bought from the producer in the first instance, and who finally sold to a Melbourne' speculator at £7 per ton. Each vendor, the producer perhaps excepted, made a. profit on his deal. At a sale of purebred milking shorthorns at Bainpton. Oxfordshire, Ehg.. a bull. Knowsley. Dolphin, nearly six years old, realised 350 guineas. At the same sale 13 head sired by him averaged £l6B Cs Cd. This included a yearling heifer Duchess of Waterloo, which made 550 guineas; and a. yearling bull, Coleseombe Dolphin, sold* for 400gns. Knowsley Dolphin was bred by the Earl of Derby, and is of the Wild Eyes family of pure Hates blood. Two of his progeny, Darlington Cranford sth and Dorothy, averaged over I,ooolb milk for 10 years. The British Friesia.li show cow, Terling Sea Kale Oth, has had three cail'ves, and her yields are the "following:— With first calf. 1036 gaMons in .301 days; with her second calf, 1-100 gallons in 252 days; with her third, 2014 gallons in forty-one weeks, and yielding live gallons a day still. This cow won the Sileock Cup last year with the highest yield in the Lancashire Milk Recording Society in the Ministry's year, and she will-not be six years' old until 1 lib September. English 'agricultural journals consider that the sale of South African Friesiaiis on .Line S was the sale event of the year. Details now to band show that for S3 lots an average of £1,242 15s Hid. was realised. The top price for bull- was 3.500 guineas, paid for Hatlons Martinis, by Lord Rayleigh; Nels Rust Ceres 2nd. a two-year-old. made 3.G00 guineas; and a yearling. Colonies Plaats Mazeppa, sold' for 3.500 guineas. Thirteen other bulls made four figures, and the average for males was £1,383 15s. The top price for cows was 4.300 guineas, for Melrose Liliana. a two-year-old. which was bought by \\v Horridge. of Anglesey. In all 25 females made four figures, the average being £1.170. A British Kriesian won the auctioneers' chief prize for dairy cows m I lei herington's Carlisle mart, in Scotland, and made £9O. A dairy cow in England, having lost its calf, is acting as wet nurse to four motherless lambs. The excellent condition of the lambs shows that the i-ow makes a capital foster mother. Showing the value of prime beef in the Old Country, it is stated that a 10{cwt. bullock, consigned from Western Leocbel to Messrs Rcith and Anderson's mart at All'ord on 30th Mav fetcbed L'sl 2s Od, or 00s 9d cwt. Recently we referred to the popularity ol' Xew Zealand lamb in England, * Tju' .Mark Lane Express, in latest advices, says:—"The Canterbury lamljjroiu Xew Zealand is a popular jointin nearly every household, so that the competition which has to be faced by English graziers and feeders is very strong, hut all the same everyone prefers (he home-led article if only he can afford the price of it."' The dairy cow is the most important factor in human life to-day. because dairy products are essential to the growth and development of children, and ibe maintenance of the proper slate of health and vitality.

the hill gallop me not; down tl.*e\hill trot me; on the plain spare me not ; in (he stable whip me not" is an old Yorkshire l saying.

Twenty-five pigs from the Drayton herd of Largo Blacks of Mr T. F. Hooley averaged £2B 6s b'd at Camhrid'ge (England) on May 18. A well-model-led young sow, Drayton Diligent 3rd. sold for 150 guineas. Another kow. Withain .Margaret 3rd, realised 140gs. An unofficial estimate places the area under wheat in' Western Australia this season at 1,000.000 acres as against 1.250,000 acres last year. An average of 12 bushel* uu acre, is ejected giving an estimated yield of 18,000,OOObusheJs, the best in the history of the State.