ON THE LAND.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 471, 26 February 1925, Page 7

ON THE LAND.

VIEWS, NOTES. AND COMMENT©

For January, Kata ' Co-operative. Dairy Co. paid out an advance of Is per lb Tor bultcrfut.

Verj few farms are changing hands in the Wairarapa ’at present, probably owin'; to the good prices being received for wool and other produce.

1 • We are a silly lot, we tanners;’ said Mr. W. A. Tate, at a meeting, of the Greytown branch of the Farmers’ Union, “as we never say straight put what we •'ant. .

The output of eggs from the Levin Poultry-keepers ’Association s depotlast week was 1200 dozen, a decrease of G 6 dozen from last week’s figures.

One Greytown orchardist had arranged to send 1(X)0 cases oi Delicious apples to South America. this sea-, son. The gale on Wednesday cancelled the order.

West Coast papers are boasting ol three heavy sheep-lately oil view, at Greymouth. The, heaviest of the three tipped the scale at 1171 b anr the three averaged OGlbs. ,

As lambs should Ik? taming in oh tlip rape shortly, the freezing worTo will be experiencing a busy time reports the Mastertoii Age. . freezing season will Ih> later this season than last year.

Several members of tiie tanners* Union stated at the meeting in Oarn aru that lucerne was the natural enemy of Californian, iliistle. The only difficulty was that lucerne could not be grown on all soils. ‘

As showing the great traffic in live stock in the Foihling district hr the, present time, Mr Tv. P. Walsh reports to us that during the ,sp days previous to lastweek’s jEw©.Fa’r lie ))rovided accommodation in his well-known paddocks for fifteen thouA and sheep without any loss or box up—a record.

Fpeuking of the life of the daily farmer, Mr R. Mclveen, M.P., said at .Masterton: “To pay his interest be has to work up to 10 hours per day; then he gets hiswife fo help, and then he gets his children 1 10 work”---“And then lie gets a 'motor-car.’’ piped up a thin-voiced Feekler in the audience. ■ •

According to a. prominent Ilawkcb Bay fruitgrower, who was questioned by a Daily Telegraph ..reporter., the codlin. moth lias taken a terrible toll of all classes of fruit this year, and this fact, coupled with the recent wet spell .has done much to bring about a very indifferent fruit yield in so far as. parts of that district arc concerned.

A proposal has been made to increase the Dominion levy of tlnJ .Farmers’ Union, £o as to cover a free copy of the official organ of the Union. This proposal was sternly resisted at the meeting of the North Otago executive of the Union, and if. was decided that the delegates to the Dominion. executive he instructed to oppose the increase. 1

As, a further precaution against the introduction of cattle tick into Tara naki from northern districts, the Taranaki provincial executive of t,bc ; - Farmers’ Union has forwarded a letter to the Dominion executive urging it to bring before ,the .Government the need of installing a dip on the northern side of the Mokau River, and to make it compulsory for fill cattle coming south to be dipped at tile expense of the Government.,

Gisborne merchants report a. big increase in the price of linseed oil and .whitelead, the latter material liavijig advanced £lO 10s per ton since Die rise first comnieueed.. The oil has risen 2s a, gallon. Doth these, advances are exceptionally large. Jn some quarters it is believed that,the apex of the increase has been reached and that-a. drop will be experienefed in the near future, while in -others a slight further increase is autippated.

Th t . experts have made confident predictions that wool is likffiv to maintain a big figure for. several years jafc least .'(says the Clmstehurc-b Sum. but tlie s*sest'of the experts are not always right. They have been .surprised in the past, and, being b.ni human, they will no doubt be .surprised occasionally In tlie future-Over.-importation in luxuries or-non-essentials in a danger to.N.Z., whose annual interest commitments are-, abnormally high owing to our war legacies. And "the interest bijiyis not stationary. Tlie Dominion is in; a sense only luilf-developed, Fxpansion is impossible without borrowed money , hence the periodical descents on the Loudon market. These in* vdlve, as everybody knows, accretions io’ our national liabilities.